Robin Bernheim

Bernheim was born in Santa Monica, California, and is a graduate of Stanford University and UCLA, the latter of which she received her MBA. She broke into television by submitting a spec script to Remington Steele,^[1] which starred Stephanie Zimbalist, her friend since childhood.^[2] Executive producer Michael Gleason then hired Bernheim on staff, leading to her career as one of the few women writing and producing hour-long, network television dramas in the 1980s and 1990s, including shows like Quantum Leap, Crazy Like a Fox, Houston Knights, MacGyver, Renegade and Tekwar. One of her Star Trek:Voyager episodes was chosen in 2020 by The Hollywood Reporter as one of the most memorable in the series' history ^[3]

Her work also includes several forays into animation, writing episodes of the Men In Black: The Series and Extreme Ghostbusters cartoons. In 2015, she co-produced and wrote the acclaimed PBS documentary feature Little House On The Prairie: The Legacy of Laura Ingalls Wilder.^[4] She was the executive producer of the hit Hallmark series When Calls the Heart from 2015 to 2017,^[5] the writer-producer of several Hallmark movies (including I'll Be Home For Christmas and Royal Hearts) ^[6] and in 2019 co-wrote & co-created the network's Mystery 101 series of movies with Lee Goldberg.^[7] Most recently, Bernheim co-wrote and co-produced the 2019 Netflix movie The Princess Switch starring Vanessa Hudgens, as well as a sequel, The Princess Switch: Switched Again, that was scheduled for release for Christmas 2020.^[8]

In 2025, she wrote & created You're Killing Me (fka Allie & Andi), a new six-episode mystery series starring Brooke Shields, Amalia Williamson, and Tom Cavanagh that will air on AMC/Acorn in early 2026. Lee Goldberg, with whom she co-created and co-wrote Mystery 101, is also a writer/producer on the series ^[9] .^[10]

Bernheim lives in Dublin, California, with her husband David Burger.^[11] Her brother is Douglas Bernheim, currently the Edward Ames Edmunds Professor of Economics at Stanford University.