Louise Anne Beris[a] Fiona Robey is a French Canadian actress, songwriter, singer, children's book writer/illustrator, and property developer.
Her father, Colonel Malcolm Vernon Robey,[1] was a pilot in the Royal Canadian Air Force then NATO diplomat and her mother was a former London stage actress.
[3] Robey was raised and educated throughout Europe, France, Italy, Norway, Scotland, Canada and West Germany,[3] learning to speak four languages.
[6] She also began a music career, busking in the streets and fronting the ska-punk band Louise and the Creeps signed to CBS France and UK by president Alain Levy.
[5] In the early 1980s, Robey moved to New York City, where she worked as a catwalk model earning $5,000 a day[8] and appeared in advertising campaigns for Maybelline, Jordache, Revlon, L'Oreal and Clairol amongst many others.
While working as a musician, Robey continued to model and also became involved in improvisational comedy, performing with the famed troupe M.I.C.E.
The show, which was filmed in Toronto,[3] was received positively by audiences and became one of the top-three syndicated dramas airing at the time, second only to Star Trek.
The two met after Lord Burford gave a lecture about one of his relatives, the 17th Earl of Oxford, who is one of several authors named in the Shakespeare authorship question.