Editing Robin Mattson (section)

==Career==

===Daytime television===
Mattson made her daytime debut as troubled teen Hope Bauer on ''[[Guiding Light]]'' in 1976, her only complete heroine on the soaps. She received a [[Soap Opera Digest]] Award and an [[Emmy Award]] nomination for her first major role as [[Heather Webber (General Hospital)|Heather Webber]] on ''[[General Hospital]]''.<ref name="Daytime Confidential">{{cite web|title=Robin Mattson profile|url=http://daytimeconfidential.zap2it.com/news/robin-mattson|publisher=Daytime Confidential|access-date=February 27, 2014|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131231024753/http://daytimeconfidential.zap2it.com/news/robin-mattson|archive-date=December 31, 2013}}</ref> During [[Ilene Kristen]]'s absence from ''[[Ryan's Hope]]'', she played [[Delia Ryan]] (1984). Replacing [[Linda Gibboney]] on ''[[Santa Barbara (TV series)|Santa Barbara]]'', she received additional Emmy nominations as [[Gina Blake Lockridge]], a role she played from December 1985 through the final episode in January 1993. Mattson then moved to New York to play [[Janet Green (All My Children)|Janet Green]] on ''[[All My Children]]'' (1994–2000). Over the next few years, she took on several short term roles on ''[[The Bold and the Beautiful]]'' (2003), Madame Cheri Love on ''[[As the World Turns]]'' (2007), and Lee Michaels on ''[[Days of Our Lives]]'' (2010–11). Mattson returned to ''[[General Hospital]]'' on two occasions, first in 2004 for six months, where she was reunited with her former ''[[Santa Barbara (TV series)|Santa Barbara]]'' co-star [[Jed Allan]], and in the spring of 2012. Mattson has continued to play the role for storyline arcs of varying lengths as the plotline dictated. Mattson would exit in early 2015 but returned once again in May 2016.

===Film and primetime television===
Mattson began acting at age seven.<ref name="Miami News">{{cite web|last=Jicha|first=Tom|title=Soap opera star has to be able to keep a secret|url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=SOhWAAAAIBAJ&sjid=JEMNAAAAIBAJ&dq=eileen-dietz%20general-hospital&pg=1309%2C1152271|work=The Miami News|access-date=December 16, 2012|date=May 4, 1981}}</ref>

She made her screen debut in ''[[Namu, the Killer Whale]]'' (1966).<ref name="Miami News"/> She co-starred in ''[[Bonnie's Kids]]'' (1973) when she was only 15, including appearing topless, as well as ''[[Candy Stripe Nurses]]'' (1974) and ''[[Return to Macon County]]'' (1975).<ref name="Soap Central">{{cite web|title=Robin Mattson|url=http://soapcentral.com/gh/theactors/mattson_robin.php|publisher=Soap Central|access-date=February 27, 2014}}</ref> She appeared in a number of made for television films and guest starred in a number of primetime series, include ''[[Marcus Welby, M.D.]]'', ''[[Happy Days]]'', ''[[Barnaby Jones]]'', ''[[Charlie's Angels]]'', ''[[The Dukes of Hazzard]]'' and ''[[Law & Order]]''.