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Born into a religious folk-singing family in California, 1958, Robbins was encouraged to be artistic from an early age, and at 12 joined the Theatre for the New City. He paid his way at the UCLA by delivering pizzas and on graduation formed the avant garde theatre group Actor's Gang. He made his movie debut in 1983's Toy Soldiers and appeared in Howard the Duck and Top Gun in 1986. His first starring role proper came with Jacob's Ladder, but he came to prominence in 1992 as Griffin Mill in The Player and as Bob Roberts, the film he wrote, directed and starred in. He directed his partner Susan Sarandon to an Oscar in Dead Man Walking.
