Background
Robinson was born in London and brought up in Thailand and Malaysia by a Burmese-Indian-Malay mother and an English father.
Robinson was born in London and brought up in Thailand and Malaysia by a Burmese-Indian-Malay mother and an English father.
She has appeared in films Hidalgo (2004), The Merchant of Venice (2004) and The Namesake (2006). Robinson later was regular cast member on the American Broadcasting Company series Lost (2009-2010), Showtime political thriller Homeland (2012), and Fox drama The Following (2015). She is also of Scottish and Iranian descent.
She is a graduate of the American Academy of Dramatic Arts in Los Los Angeles
She is the sister of British field botanist Doctor Alastair Robinson. Robinson has made her film debut in the 2000 experimental film Timecode.
She gained attention on the 2001 series The Lone Gunmen, part of The X-Files franchise. She played Yves Adele Harlow, a mysterious thief who often aided (and sometimes hindered) the starring trio.
Robinson"s first lead role brought her to Morocco, playing a 19th-century Arabian princess named Jazira, opposite Viggo Mortensen and Omar Sharif, in Disney"s $80 million Western epic Hidalgo (2004), directed by Joe Johnston.
The film tells the true story of long-distance endurance horse rider, Frank Hopkins. In 2006, she played a Bengali character called Moushumi Mazumdar in Mira Nair"s acclaimed film The Namesake, based on the book of the same name. In 2007, Robinson had a supporting role in the Home Box Office series Rome, and the following year played Eva Marquez, a New York City Police Department detective, in the Fox police drama New Amsterdam.
Robinson joined the cast of Lost in 2009 during its fifth season, as recurring character Ilana Verdansky, and was promoted to series regular for the sixth season.
In 2012, she was cast in the second season of Homeland in a recurring role as journalist and secret al-Qaeda operative Roya Hammad. Robinson also played a supporting role in the drama thriller film The Boy.
In 2016, Robinson was cast as Lady Capulet in the American Broadcasting Company period drama pilot Still Star-Crossed produced by ShondaLand.