Robin Wright Penn
Born: 8 April 1966
Where: Dallas, Texas
The former model first caught the public's attention when she played Buttercup in Rob Reiner's fantasy adventure The Princess Bride.
Other career highlights include her Golden Globe-winning performance as Tom Hanks' love interest in Forrest Gump and She's So Lovely, starring her future husband Sean Penn.
After strutting the catwalks in Paris and Japan, she made her TV debut in 1984 in the TV series The Yellow Rose followed by the Emmy-nominated role of Kelly Capwell in the soap Santa Barbara.
She made her big screen debut in Hollywood Vice Squad with Carrie Fisher in 1986 before she was cast in The Princess Bride.
Thanks to that success, she got the starring role in Denial alongside Jason Patric, who she had a brief affair with.
In 1990 she starred in State of Grace, where she met future husband Sean Penn , by whom she has a daughter, Dylan Frances, and a son, Hopper Jack.
In 1991 she was offered the role of Maid Marian in Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves but had to pull out when she became pregnant (the part went to Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio).
She returned in 1992 with one of her most rewarding roles - Tara in Playboys - and went on to star opposite Robin Williams in Toys.
Next up was the top-grossing Forrest Gump, which she followed with a small part in The Crossing Guard with Jack Nicholson as well as Moll Flanders (after she had turned down 14 other projects).
In 1997, she received a Screena Actor's Guild nomination for best actress for her peformance opposite Penn and John Travolta in She's So Lovely.
The same year she won a best actress award at the Seattle Film Festival for Loved opposite William Hurt.
Again teaming up with her husband, she appeared in Hurlyburly and also starred in the tepid weepie Message in a Bottle with Kevin Costner.
Her profile was raised with M Night Shyamalan's Unbreakable with Bruce Willis and the sublime thriller The Pledge, directed by her husband and starring Jack Nicholson.
Recent work includes the role of Bible-thumping, ex-lapdancer Starr in Peter Kosminsky's White Oleander.
In 2003 she starred in Keith Gordon's adaptation of Dennis Potter's British TV drama The Singing Detective with Mel Gibson and Robert Downey Jr.
Recent work includes the drama A Home At The End of the World with Colin Farrell.
