Robin Tunney used to be one of the weirdos along with her coven of witchy sisters; now she's a sorceress of the small screen.
Tunney has moved on since playing some of her most iconic '90s roles, along with all her co-stars from The Craft. Nancy's Fairuza Balk not only got to be in a coven of witches but a similar coven of women called the Band-Aids in Almost Famous, and later got to reprise Nancy in The Craft's latest sequel, even though she died in the first film.
Bonnie Harper's Neve Campbell starred in the first couple of Scream films, along with Sarah's fake boyfriend from The Craft, Skeet Ulrich, who later starred on Riverdale. Rachel True went on to star in other '90s films like Half Baked, Groove, and the show Half & Half.
So while we've missed our little coven, they have been busy. We might not have seen them over the past decades, but they have been there. Especially Tunney, who has had a very successful career in television and has done a couple of low-budget films as well. But what has she been up to recently? Maybe praying to Manon to stop this pandemic.
She Starred On Two Really Great TV Shows
The coven of aspiring witches was forever changed when Sarah Bailey moved to town and brought even bigger power. While she finished the circle of the coven's power (north, south, east, west), the rest of the girls had no idea that she'd be their downfall, and in Nancy's case, her killer.
The Craft is one of those '90s cult classics that will never get old, like Empire Records, Scream, Dazed and Confused, and 10 Things I Hate About You.
Tunney starred in Empire Records in 1995 and had a shaved head. By the time she started filming The Craft, her hair hadn't grown back, so she had to wear a wig. These two films put her on the market in Hollywood. A year later, she starred in her husband of the time (they were married from 1995 to 2006), Bob Gosse's film Niagra, Niagra.
Into the late '90s, she starred in films like Julian Po, Montana, and End of Days. She was even featured in Tom Petty's music video for "Swingin." In 2000, she starred in the film Vertical Limit alongside Chris O'Donnell.
Into the 2000s, she starred in a couple of other low-budget films until 2005, when she was cast as Veronica Donovan in the first season of Prison Break. She left in the second season, but after that, she starred in the film Hollywoodland in 2006.
That same year she used her expert poker skills to win her table at the eighth tournament series of Bravo's Celebrity Poker Showdown. She finished second to Jason Alexander and earned $200,000 for her charity of choice, The Children's Health Fund.
Between 2008 and 2015, Tunney starred as Teresa Lisbon in The Mentalist alongside Simon Baker.
In 2012, she began dating Nicky Marmet, who she later married and had two children, Oscar and Colette. A year later, Tunney reunited with her coven, Campbell and True, for a sold-out screening of The Craft held at the Hollywood Forever Cemetery in Los Angeles.
She's Had A Couple More Credits Since 2015
In 2015, she starred in My All-American and then Looking Glass in 2018. In the last couple of years, Tunney has moved to Netflix, starring in the series Insatiable in 2018 and then Horse Girl, her most recent credit in 2020.
She did have a 10-episode arc on ABC's The Fix in 2019, but it was canceled after one season.
At the time, Tunney had high hopes for her new show. "Introducing something new into the world is stressful. You really want everybody to like it, but I think people are enjoying it," Tunney told the Chicago Tribune. "It’s created by women. Marcia Clark obviously created it. I think she and Liz (Craft) and Sarah (Fain) wrote a different kind of woman than a man would have. The character’s in her 40s, but she’s still vital."
During the same interview, she said she was also hopeful for the reboot of The Craft.
"The Craft was all about sort of like female empowerment," she said. "It wasn’t about getting the guy, and it was so unusual for the time. I’m so happy that it’s sort of become this seminal kind of movie. I’m happy they’re rebooting it because I think they want to make something that’s different. They’re not going to just like remake the same movie. I think they want to do it justice, and I think that’s amazing. It’s like the ultimate compliment."
We didn't get to see Tunney reprise her role in the reboot, but she was there in spirit, just like Manon. As of right now, Tunney does not have anything lined up for the future, but with her resume, we know she'll have something in no time. Otherwise, she might have to invoke the spirits.