Robin Jessica Tunney is an American actress. She is known for her role as Teresa Lisbon in the television series "The Mentalist", as well as starring in "Prison Break" and the movies "The Craft", "End of Days", and "Vertical Limit".
Background
Ethnicity:
Her father emigrated from Ireland and her mother is a first generation Irish-American.
Tunney was born in Chicago, Illinois to a car salesman father, Patrick, and a bartender mother, Cathy. Tunney is Irish American; her father emigrated from Ireland and grew up in Orland Park, Illinois, a southwest suburb of Chicago. She was raised Roman Catholic, attended Carl Sandburg High School in Orland Park, and resided in Palos Heights, Illinois, also in the Chicago area. After graduating high school, she then studied Art at the Chicago Academy for the Arts. She is a cousin of Chicago Alderman Tom Tunney.
Career
Passenger Side (Jun-2009)
The Burning Plain (29-Aug-2008) • Laura
August (22-Jan-2008)
Hollywoodland (31-Aug-2006) • Leonore Lemmon
The Darwin Awards (25-Jan-2006) • Zoe
Open Window (19-Jan-2006) • Izzy Fieldston
The Zodiac (31-Jul-2005)
Paparazzi (3-Sep-2004)
Shadow of Fear (14-Jul-2004)
The In-Laws (17-May-2003)
The Secret Lives of Dentists (09-Sep-2002)
Investigating Sex (18-Apr-2002) • Zoe
Cherish (14-Jan-2002)
Vertical Limit (3-Dec-2000) • Annie Garrett
Supernova (14-Jan-2000) • Danika Lund
End of Days (16-Nov-1999)
Montana (16-Jan-1998) • Kitty
Julian Po (5-Sep-1997)
Niagara, Niagara (30-Aug-1997)
The Craft (3-May-1996) • Sarah
Riders of the Purple Sage (21-Jan-1996) • Elizabeth Erne
Empire Records (22-Sep-1995)
Encino Man (22-May-1992) • Ella
