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Robin Tunney most recently starred in ABC’s legal drama The Fix as Maya Travis, an L.A. district attorney who suffers a devastating defeat after prosecuting an A-list movie star for double murder. The series premiered on March 2019. Tunney gave her breakthrough performance in Empire Records in 1995 and attracted further attention by starring in cult-favorite The Craft in following year. Tunney was nominated for an Indie Spirit award for Best Female Lead and won  Best Actress  at the Venice International Film Festival for her performance in Niagara, Niagara, opposite Henry Thomas. Among her many film credits are starring opposite Nicolas Cage in the thriller Looking Glass, Guillermo Arriaga’s The Burning Plain opposite Charlize Theron and Jennifer Lawrence,  and Focus Features’ Hollywoodland opposite Ben Affleck and Diane Lane. Additional TV credits include The Mentalist, Prison Break, Love, Insatiable, House M.D., The Twilight Zone and Robot Chicken. (Photo by Ed Herrera.)

Robin Tunney

Alexi Pappas is an award-winning writer, filmmaker, and Olympic athlete. Her new memoir, <a href="http://www.randomhousebooks.com/campaign/bravey/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Bravey: Chasing Dreams, Befriending Pain and Other Big Ideas</a>, is out now through Random House. Her writing has appeared in The New York Times, Runner’s World, Women’s Running, Sports Illustrated, The Atlantic and Outside, among other publications, and she has been profiled in The New York Times, Sports Illustrated, New York, and Rolling Stone. Pappas co-wrote, co-directed, and starred in the feature film Tracktown with Rachel Dratch and Andy Buckley. Most recently, she co-wrote and starred alongside Nick Kroll in Olympic Dreams, the first non-documentary-style movie to ever be filmed at the Olympic Games. A Greek American, Pappas holds the Greek national record in the 10,000-meters and competed for Greece in the 2016 Olympics. She lives in Los Angeles, California. (Photo by Kelia Anne MacCluskey.)

Alexi Pappas

Podcast

Alexi Pappas Talks with Robin Tunney on the Talkhouse Podcast