‘Common Hospital’ Actress Discovered Useless in Open Discipline

Actress Robyn Bernard, who appeared in 145 episodes of the cleaning soap opera Common Hospital within the Nineteen Eighties, was discovered lifeless in a subject behind a enterprise in San Jacinto, California, the Riverside County Sheriff’s Division reported.

No reason behind demise has been established for Bernard, 64, who retired from present enterprise greater than twenty years in the past.

Throughout her Common Hospital run from 1984 to 1990, Bernard performed Terry Brock, a singer who was framed for homicide twice. Bernard additionally had components in films like 1981’s Diva and 1986’s Betty Blue. Her final onscreen credit score was the function of a psychologist in a small 2002 manufacturing referred to as Voices From the Excessive Faculty.

A Texas preacher’s daughter, she began out as a toddler singer together with her sister Crystal, who would go on to star within the Nineteen Nineties TV sequence Wings. Robyn attended Baylor College however dropped out after some wild partying.

“I used to be bitter about all of the strain that had been put upon me,” she mentioned of her strict non secular upbringing in a 1985 interview with Boca Raton Information. “So I walked the opposite facet. I’ve to confess it didn’t do a lot for my grades. So after a pair semesters I stop and went to Nashville.”

Robyn lived in Music Metropolis for 3 years earlier than driving to Hollywood with the objective of getting on the most well-liked cleaning soap opera. It didn’t take lengthy.

“One of many good issues about doing Common Hospital is that they let me sing on the present,” she mentioned in a 1986 interview with United Options Syndicate. “They usually tied in my background as a gospel singer into the background of my character.”