Robin Tunney

Ignatius College Prep, a coed Catholic high school in Chicago. Esther Williams retired from acting in the early 1960s. Robin Tunney went to St. Her brother, Stanton Williams, also had a brief acting career during the 1920s before his death while still a teenager. Robin Tunney is a South Side Chicago native. Her third husband was actor Fernando Lamas. In 1997, Tunney married producer Bob Gosse. She was romantically linked with Jeff Chandler, and has been married four times.

Tunney also starred opposite Arnold Schwarzenegger in the 1999 action film End of Days. Her love life was a source of media interest. She had a major breakthrough with her role 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. In her autobiography, Williams details several other occasions in which she nearly drowned shooting her oxygen-defying stunts. She moved to Los Angeles, at the age of 18, where she had several recurring TV roles on Law & Order, Dream On, and Life Goes On. Her many hours spent submerged resulted in her rupturing her eardrums numerous times. Tunney studied acting at the Chicago Academy for the Performing Arts. She broke her neck filming a 50-foot dive off a tower during a climactic musical number for the 1952 release Million Dollar Mermaid which landed her in a body cast for six months (she subsequently recovered though she still suffers headaches as a result of the accident).

Robin Tunney (born June 19, 1972 in Chicago) is an American actress of stage and screen. Many of her films, such as Million Dollar Mermaid and Jupiter's Darling, contained elaborately staged swimming scenes, obtained not without physical cost to the performer. Williams instead went to Hollywood, and quickly became a popular star of the 1940s and 1950s. She qualified to be in the United States swim team in the 1940 Olympics, but the games were canceled due to World War II. Esther Williams was born in Inglewood, California, and was enthusistic about swimming from her youth.

Esther Jane Williams (born 8 August 1922) is a United States swimmer and movie star. Williams, Esther, The Million Dollar Mermaid: An Autobiography, Simon & Schuster, 1999.