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Robin Tunney: Craft
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Robin Tunney's major breakthrough role was as a suicidal teenager in Empire Records before receiving the leading role as a gothic witch in The Craft, alongside Fairuza Balk, Neve Campbell and Rachel True. Robin lost her hair for her role in Empire Records, and had to wear a wig in The Craft.
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You see, it's not like Robin Tunney, if she had the choice, would probably take all that kindly to the idea of her handing off the baton to the next generation, in the person of Zooey Deschanel. They're only about seven and a half years apart, so they're practically in the same generation. And to the casual observer, Tunney's carved out a nice little groove for herself, and her career seems to be going pretty well. She's been working steadily for over a decade, in a nice mix of mostly bad big-budget blockbusters (End of Days, Vertical Limit), cult favourites (Empire Records, The Craft), prestigious indies (Cherish, The Secret Lives of Dentists), and movies where she plays crazy girls (Niagara, Niagara).
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"The Craft" was Robin Tunney's first feature film lead role. Since that film, Robin has starred in films such as "Cherish," "Julian Po," and "End of Days." Here's a collection of fansites and movie sites featuring actress Robin Tunney and her films.
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Tunney ... starred in Andrew Fleming's box-office smash, The Craft, for which she and co-star Fairuza Balk won an MTV Movie Award. Her additional film credits include Encino Man, opposite Brendan Fraser, and Julian Po, opposite Christian Slater.
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Returning to THE CRAFT, Tunney explains that "some of the ritual and ideology of Wicca got lost. But it's a movie, and I think it will have general audiences be interested, and the lovely thing about it is that it does introduce Wicca as a religion, and we do follow some of the things, but I think people have to put their foot in one toe at a time, in order to understand it. But it's a film, and you want people from ages of thirteen to twenty five who have never heard of witchcraft to understand, so you have to speak in general terms. If people get more interested, they will read up on it and will understand about the Goddess.
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Interviewers have been tempted to present Tunney as the Alanis Morissette of Hollywood starlets, because of her predilection for dark, angsty roles. True, she's played a disaffected punk in Empire Records (1995), and a telekinetic teen in the high-school pic The Craft (1996). So she's not exactly Meg Ryan. Glib explanations for her affinity with the tormented and her compulsion to tackle tough parts range from her Irish-Catholic background (her father, Patrick, came to the US as a teenager), to her strong family work ethic (dad sold cars; mother was a bartender) to her being the youngest of four children.
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