Laila Robins - Professor Deborah Hansen

Laila Robins Professor Deborah Hansen.

Laila Robins is a New York based actress and is currently shooting a recurring role on this season of In Treatment on HBO. She was seen on Broadway in Heartbreak House, the Tony-nominated play Frozen (Lucille Lortel Nomination), The Herbal Bed and The Real Real Thing. Off-Broadway credits include The Great War, Antony and Cleopatra, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Sore Throats (Lucille Lortel nomination), Tiny Alice, Mrs. Klein (for the national tour of Mrs. Klein she received a Joseph Jefferson Award and a Helen Hayes Nomination), The Merchant of Venice (Calloway Award), The Extra Man, Bloody Poetry, and The Film Society. Regional credits include A Streetcar Named Desire (1997 Jefferson Award for Best Actress), Antony and Cleopatra, Hedda Gabler, Summer and Smoke, the World Premiere of Arthur Miller’s Resurrection Blues, Fool for Love, Fiction, Skylight, The Women, and Lady from the Sea. She has done 10 plays with the Shakespeare Theatre of New Jersey and several summers at the Williamstown Theatre Festival. Film credits include Loss of a Teardrop, Multiple Sarcasms, August, The Good Shepherd, Jailbait, Things that Hang from Trees, Slippery Slope, Oxygen, An Innocent Man, Welcome Home Roxy Carmichael, True Crime, Female Perversions, Searching for Paradise, and the Steve Martin film Planes, Trains, and Automobiles. Television credits include The Sopranos, Sex and the City, Law and Order: SVU, Law and Order: CI, Law and Order, Third Watch, The Book of Daniel and the series lead in Gabriel’s Fire opposite James Earl Jones. Ms. Robins trained at the Yale School of Drama.