Biography

Blessed with a driving intellectual curiosity and having lived a gypsy lifestyle, Ann Robb brings her life experiences to the stage and screen. Raised by an artist, she lived in Guadalajara Mexico as a child. Along with riding a burro to school, she learned to speak Spanish, dance the regional dances and became a promising vocalist who would later perform on prestigious stages from Chicago to Southern California. Moving back to the U.S. as a teenager, she lived the beach life during Southern California's golden age, cutting school to go surfing and running down to Baja for lobster tacos. Years later, as an adult, her ability to recreate that carefree personality would receive rave reviews as she brought Lexie, the lovable man-eater, to life on the stage in "The Dixie Swim Club" , a slightly batty cat-owner in "The Stuff of St. Petersburg" and later, as a match-making bag lady in the movie, "Ten Dollars". Along with skydiving, white water rafting and traveling extensively, she raised three children, attended Eastern Illinois University and enjoyed a successful career as a business executive and coach. Those life lessons were later showcased as a mature and caring therapist in "A Symmetry", a sophisticated, but stern, Senate President in "Bipartisanship" and a kindly, tongue-in-cheek immigration officer in "The Persian". She would step away from those roles to play the caustic and conspiratorial Jessie Rose on stage in "Good Help is so Hard to Murder" and a homicidal restaurant owner in the film, "Stevie Sliders". Committed full time to her acting career, Ann continues to study and along with her husband, lives in the sultry and mysterious city of Savannah, Georgia.
- IMDb mini biography by: M.M. Robb

Ann was born in the hometown of showbiz notables, such as Dick and Jerry VanDyke, Donald O'Connor, Gene Hackman, Helen Morgan and her father's childhood buddy, Bobby Short. Other notables that claim Danville, are, Jamie Farr, Kevin McCarthy and Mary McCarthy, the author. The town is also proud of Joe Tanner, the astronaut.

Ann Robb is the administrator of the "Solopilot Society", a group of pilots, who were pioneers (1952-1959), in the field of aeronautical evacuation of injured on the battlefield. These were men who flew solo, in a helicopter with patient litters on the skids. Think M*A*S*H*, the bubble helicopter, with the red cross on the front. While there are fewer than fifty still alive, these men were responsible for countless lives saved. These men are Ann's heroes.