Robin Weigert
The Emmy-nominated actress who brought Calamity Jane to raw, unforgettable life on Deadwood.
Robin Weigert is an American television and film actress best known for portraying Calamity Jane on the HBO television series Deadwood (2004–2006). For that role, she received a nomination for the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Drama Series in 2004. She reprised the role in Deadwood: The Movie in 2019, which was nominated for 8 Emmy Awards, including Outstanding Television Movie.
Quick Facts
- Birthplace
- Washington, D.C., U.S.
- Education
- Brandeis University (BA); New York University (MFA)
- Occupation
- Actress
- Years active
- 1998–present
Reader's Guide
Weigert played therapists in the box office hit Smile and opposite Nicole Kidman in the much-lauded HBO TV series Big Little Lies, attorneys in the popular cabler Sons of Anarchy and Jay Roach's biographical drama Bombshell, and strippers in Charlie Kaufman's Synecdoche, New York and Steven Soderbergh's black-and-white period drama The Good German. She was nominated for a Gotham Award for her portrayal of the central character, a housewife turned prostitute, in the award-winning indie Concussion, and was featured prominently in the Hulu miniseries We Were the Lucky Ones in which she plays the matriarch of a Polish Jewish family that survived the Holocaust.
Series regular roles include Dietland for AMC with Julianna Margulies, NBC's Life with Damian Lewis, and CBS' Tracker with Justin Hartley. In April 2024, David Canfield featured Weigert in the Vanity Fair 'Always Great' series with an article titled, 'How Robin Weigert Brings Herself to Her Most Indelible Roles'.
Did You Know?
- Weigert earned a Master of Fine Arts from the Graduate Acting Program at NYU's Tisch School of the Arts after graduating from Brandeis University in 1991.
- In 2010, her performance as the Angel in Signature Theater Company's revival of Angels in America was praised as 'full of tenderness and wit' by USA Today.
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