Karen Kopins as "Robin Pierce"

Karen Kopins (born October 10, 1961) is an American beauty pageant winner, former actress and former model. Kopins attended Ridgefield High School and graduated from Marymount College before moving to California to pursue an acting career. She was Miss Connecticut 1977, having entered the pageant as Miss Ridgefield. Kopins starred in films Fast Forward, Creator, Jake Speed, and this film, Once Bitten. She also appeared in guest roles in various television shows, such as The A-Team, Designing Women and Riptide. She was cast as one of Charlie's Angels in the unaired spinoff Angels '88. Kopins had a small role in an episode of Amazing Stories directed by series creator Steven Spielberg. Other than one-off guest appearances, her only recurring role on a series was during seasons 11 and 13 of Dallas, playing Kay Lloyd, a love interest of Bobby Ewing.

In 1990, Kopins married her high school sweetheart, property developer Marc Shaw, with whom she has four children, and she left acting after 1994 to raise her family. The family lived in Litchfield, Connecticut's Rye House, which is listed on the National Register of Historic Places, from 2000 to 2012.

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