Robin Givens

Robin Givens is one of those people who got defined by a single tabloid chapter — her turbulent 1988 marriage to Mike Tyson — and I think that's genuinely unfair to how talented she actually is. She spent five years holding her own on Head of the Class as the sharp, ambitious Darlene Merriman, and that comedic timing was no accident: this is a Sarah Lawrence College grad who brought real intelligence to every role she took. She later turned her own painful experience into advocacy, becoming a spokesperson for the National Domestic Violence Hotline, which takes guts. As a director and stage actress on top of everything else, she never let the gossip columns write the final word on her career, and I respect that kind of quiet resilience more than I can say.

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Name (English)

Robin Givens

Name (Japanese)

ロビン・ギヴンズ

Reading

ろびん・ぎゔんず

Born

November 27, 1964 (age 61)

Origin

New York City, New York, United States

Occupation

television actor / film actor / stage actor / film director / actor

Zodiac / Chinese zodiac

Sagittarius / Dragon

University

Sarah Lawrence College

• Wikipedia (English)https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robin%20Givens
• Wikipedia (Japanese)https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%83%AD%E3%83%93%E3%83%B3%E3%83%BB%E3%82%AE%E3%83%B4%E3%83%B3%E3%82%BA
• Wikidatahttps://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q262495

Tags

• New York
• television actor
• film actor
• stage actor

Last updated

October 18, 2026

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