Throughout Jordan Claire Robbins’s childhood in Bermuda, she wanted to be an actress. So upon finishing high school, she moved to Toronto to make this dream become a reality, and thIs is exactly what she has achieved. Her goal of acting transformed from a far-off idea into something she was actively pursuing and accomplishing.
 
In the time since, Robbins has appeared both on the big and small screen. She was featured in the FXX comedy Man Seeking Woman, as well as the film Anon with Clive Owen and Amanda Seyfried, which will be released next year. She also had a recurring role on the hit Syfy show 12 Monkeys, starring Aaron Stanford and Amanda Schull.
 
“Every day onset was different in the best way, and each director I worked with was amazing and extremely talented,” said Robbins. “The show has a very distinct, cool feeling to it and that feeling carries over onset too. The lighting and set design is stylistically unique and creates an atmosphere that I felt during every scene I shot. The cast and crew all worked very well together and this made it an easy set to walk onto at the end of a season’s shoot, which is not always the case.”
 
12 Monkeys is a sci-fi thriller mystery about a man named Cole who is sent back from 2043, a future where a plague has almost annihilated all of human race, to the present day and other times to try and figure out how to stop the plague from happening. The show is based on the 1995 Terry Gilliam film that features Bruce Willis as Cole. “Going into its third season, the series now has many complex storylines that intersect and is a lot of fun to be on and to watch,” said Robbins.
 
On the show, Robbins plays Anita, a woman who is hired to be the assistant of Jennifer Goines (Emily Hampshire, played by Brad Pitt in the 1995 movie), a former scientist turned businesswoman who was previously put away for mental instability.
 
“Playing Anita was an absolute blast, and to be able to work opposite Emily was a gift because she is one of most free, dedicated, present actors I have ever worked with. Her commitment to the character meant she wasn’t afraid to try new things, which made every take completely different and allowed me to play and try different things too. Jennifer Goines can be described as unhinged at times but a good person at her core, and my goal in playing Anita was to tap into her sense of loyalty and acceptance despite not always understanding where Jennifer was coming from,” explained Robbins.
 
Working on 12 Monkeys helped Robbins learn the importance of staying open and approaching each take in a fresh, new way. “The magic happens when you are prepared and grounded enough to then let all of the preparation go and play with the other actors in the moment,” she said.
 
While on 12 Monkeys, Robbins had the opportunity to work with several directors including Mairzee Almas. She also worked closely with Terry Matalas, a writer, director, and executive producer of the show. She particularly enjoyed shooting two of the webisodes that Matalas directed during Season 1. “I love working with Terry; he is an amazing communicator and is very positive and easy to talk to. We built a great rapport early on and this helped me feel comfortable as I joined the cast towards the end of the first season. I love the way his mind works, and he has a deep knowledge and understanding of the characters he has written, which was always a very useful resource when onset,” said Robbins.
 
“Jordan is a breath of fresh air,” said Matalas. “She’s professional with great sense of humor. She understands the vision and doubles down, with good instincts from a lifetime of being in front of a camera.”
 
And Robbins has indeed spent a lot of time in front of the camera, enjoying careers in both acting and modeling. She has played a variety of roles; from bubbly and fun-loving characters such as in in her first film Money, to darker roles like in the film Black Dahlia.
 
Black Dahlia is about a female police officer named Dahlia who, while trying to exert control over every area of her life, neglects to realize that her own sister is in a downward spiral. Her sister, Ella, is using drugs and this exposes her to horrible things.  Robbins plays Sky, a close friend to Ella.
 
“Playing Sky was a powerful experience for me. It required me to explore difficult feelings within myself, and to imagine things that no one would wish to experience. I am a very protective, compassionate person, and I’ve seen first-hand the effects drug use can have on a person’s life, so the challenge here was to allow myself to imagine the very worst and explore feelings of fear, regret, and sadness. I had an incredible, loving, easy childhood compared to what many people have experienced, including Sky, so to do her justice meant committing myself to her circumstances and her motivations for doing the things she does,” said Robbins.
 
The lesson, Robbins says, was important to her, and helped change the ways she performs.
 
“I realized that no matter how different people’s lives may be, we all are the same at our core, and are driven by the same things – fear and love,” she said.