Kathleen Mary Robinson

Kathleen Mary Robinson (31 January 1901 – 28 December 1983) was an heiress and an Australian actor and director.

Life Robinson was born in 1901 in the Melbourne suburb of St Kilda. Her parents were Mary Louise (born McKay) and the Irish-born pastoralist Matthew John McWilliam Robinson. She had a lonely childhood on the Toorale sheep station. It is on the western bank of the Darling River between Bourke and Louth where the Warrego merges with the Darling river and is now a victim of drought.

She boarded and studied at Frensham School and her ambition was to be an actor. Her father objected and during his lifetime, she only acted in amateur productions. He produced the play Ladies in Retirement in Australia which is how they met. He and Robinson founded Whitehall Productions, operating out of the stylish Minerva Theatre in Kings Cross.