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Robin Scorpio
General Hospital character
Portrayed byKimberly McCullough
Duration
  • 1985–2001
  • 2004–2018
  • 2021
First appearanceSeptember 6, 1985 (1985-09-06)
Last appearanceMay 21, 2021 (2021-05-21)
ClassificationPast; guest
Created by
Introduced by
Book appearances
Spin-off
appearances
Crossover
appearances		All My Children
In-universe information
Other names
  • Robin Soltini
  • Robin Scorpio-Drake
  • Nancy Greene
Occupation
  • Filomena Soltini (adoptive)
Uncles
Aunts
First cousins

Robin Scorpio is a fictional character from the

SORASed like most other child actors.[4]

Casting

A 7-year-old McCullough was one of three actresses narrowed down for the part of 5-year-old Robin and was brought in to screen test with her on-screen parents

Anna Devane) and Tristan Rogers (Robert Scorpio).[5] Hughes recalled the event to MSN TV: "We just started improvising with her, like anything. We were throwing things at her and she was just talking away. Tristan and I were looking at each other over her head going, 'This is it! This is what we wanted.'"[5] Improvisation skills were key for General Hospital's process in the 1980s. As Hughes explained: "It was very improvised. Very loose. We used to just talk around the plot and maybe every now and again dip our toe in the actual storyline."[5]

McCullough debuted on September 6, 1985 and stayed with the series until September 12, 1996.

Lila Quartermaine before rejoining the soap full-time on October 12, 2005.[6] She also appeared on both seasons of the spin-off series General Hospital: Night Shift in 2007 and 2008.[1]

For her work as Robin, McCullough has won two

Daytime Emmy Awards, one for Outstanding Juvenile Female in 1989 and one for Outstanding Younger Actress in 1996.[1][7][8] McCullough also earned two Soap Opera Digest Awards, for Outstanding Youth Actor/Actress in 1986 and Outstanding Child Actor in 1993, as well as the 1987 Young Artist Award.[1]

In November 2011, McCullough announced her plans to leave General Hospital in the early months of 2012 to pursue her dream of directing full-time.[3] This came only weeks after a controversial plot,[9] where Lisa Niles (portrayed by Brianna Brown) threatens to inject Robin's blood into her husband, Patrick Drake, which was hard on McCullough and her co-star Jason Thompson considering Robin's critically acclaimed HIV-story.[10] While the character was killed off on February 21, 2012, McCullough continued to make several appearances as an apparition in numerous scenes with her loved ones. Frank Valentini, Ron Carlivati, and McCullough discussed her departure, and Carlivati, who was uncomfortable with the idea of Robin being "completely dead", rewrote her story. McCullough's scene on March 27, 2012 showed Robin to be alive, leaving the door open for her to return.[11]

On July 16, 2012, Soap Opera Digest announced that McCullough would return to the series for a series of guest spots.[12][13] She started her series of guest starring spots on July 19, 2012 and lasted until July 27, 2012. In the fall of 2012, Soap Opera Digest confirmed that McCullough would reprise her role as Robin starting on November 6 until December 19, 2012.[14] She guest-starred for one episode on March 25, 2013, in a video message Robin left for Patrick.[15]

On August 21, 2013, Soap Opera Digest exclusively confirmed that McCullough had signed a contract to return to the series.[16][17][18] McCullough made her on-screen return on September 30, 2013. In January 2014, McCullough confirmed her exit from the series once more, last airing on March 4, 2014.[19] On June 23, 2014, McCullough revealed on her Twitter account that she's received GH scripts, this was later confirmed by Valentini that McCullough would be returning as Robin in the summer.[20] Her first airdate back was on August 5, 2014 and she last aired on September 24, 2014.[21][22] On January 19, 2015, McCullough guest-starred for one episode as Robin.[23] In October 2015, it was announced that she would once again reprise the role of Robin in November. McCullough aired on November 13, 2015, and departed on January 7, 2016.[24][25][26]

In April 2016, it was revealed that McCullough was to briefly return for The Nurses' Ball, first appearing on May 9 and departing on May 27.[27] Later the same year, it was announced McCullough would again reprise the role, first appearing on October 27 and departing on November 1.[28][29] She later reprised the role for another short guest arc, appearing from December 28, 2016, to January 19, 2017.[30][31][32]

In 2017, McCullough made subsequent guest appearances from February 20 to March 10,[33][34][35] May 18 and 19,[36][37] and again from November 17 to December 4, as part of Steve Burton's return to the series.[38][39][40]

The following year, McCullough appeared from February 6 to 13,[41][42][43] and May 16 to 21.[44][45] McCullough also made several appearances in June and September.[46][47]

Storylines

1993–2001

Robin Soltini arrives in Port Charles in 1985 with the woman she believes to be her grandmother,

Olivia St. John and she also faces tough times when her parents are supposedly murdered in a boat explosion in 1992, leaving her to be raised by her Uncle Mac Scorpio. Mac later marries Felicia Cummings, and Robin is raised with her daughters, Maxie and Georgie Jones
.

In 1993, Robin meets

Pine Valley, Pennsylvania, where she is reunited with her mother Anna, who is revealed to be alive, having spent the past nine years recovering from her injuries. She also meets her aunt Alex Marick
, Anna's identical twin sister. In 2003, Anna calls Robin to inform her that her half-sister, Leora, has died. Anna leaves Pine Valley that same year to live with Robin in Paris.

2004–2021

Robin returns to Port Charles in 2004 for

Emma Grace Scorpio-Drake
, who, after a brief scare, is shown not to be infected by Robin's HIV. Patrick and Robin wed the day after Christmas.

In early 2009, Robin begins suffering from

sodium pentothal
, and Lisa flees. She is put on probation and her petition against Robin is dismissed.

In early 2011, Robin serves as the maid of honor at Sonny's wedding to

Cesar Faison (Anders Hove) in disguise. After Faison is apprehended, his accomplice Dr. Obrecht (Kathleen Gati
) tries to kill Robin, and her father Robert catches her. They struggle and Robert is injected, falling into a coma. Obrecht escapes with Robin and takes her to Jerry.

Robin is revealed to be held on Cassadine Island by Jerry, forced to find a cure for Jerry's illness in late 2013. Robin is eventually found by Nikolas, who came to Cassadine Island to find Dr. Obrecht. However, Jerry manages to trap her parents, also pursuing Obrecht, and tells Robin to develop the cure or her parents will die. Robin is held captive on Wyndemere by Faison and Obrecht with Nikolas and

Stavros Cassadine (Robert Kelker-Kelly). After refusing to help Victor, he reveals that he has also been holding Jason, and that Robin could revive him as well, if she helped in resurrecting Helena and Stavros. They leave town together on March 4, 2014, and head to the Crichton-Clark Clinic in New York City
and she hadn't got a chance to say goodbye to her longtime friend Sonny. Robin later confirms that Jason is indeed alive.

On August 5, 2014, Patrick runs into Robin at the Crichton-Clark Clinic. He was there with

Stavros Cassadine
instead. Victor refuses, and orders her to try it on Jason first to see if he wakes up or not, before trying it on the Cassadines. Victor calls in his goons to hold back Robin while he tries her new formula on Jason by injecting him with the serum. Robin asks Victor to let her and Jason leave after her formula works and Jason moves his hand, but Victor has other plans for Jason and gets his goons to throw Robin out, betraying her by telling her he doesn't need her anymore as her work is done and he's planning to keep Jason. After the goons take Robin out, Jason commences to rise from the chamber.

Reception

In 2023, Charlie Mason from

Soaps She Knows placed Robin at #15 on his ranked list of General Hospital’s 40+ Greatest Characters of All Time, commenting that "Anna and Robert’s daughter is an inspiration, a cute kid who absorbed the blows that life dealt her — and there have been many! — to emerge on the other side a grown woman who is kindhearted, open-minded and far tougher than her warm smile might suggest."[48]

Robin's Diary

In November 1995, ABC Daytime Press released a book, Robin's Diary, written by

Pediatric AIDS Foundation.[49][50]

See also

References

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