Robin Bernheim
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Robin Bernheim | |
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| Born | Robin Jill Bernheim Santa Monica, California, U.S. |
| Other names | Robin Bernheim Burger |
| Alma mater | |
| Occupations | Television screenwriter & producer |
| Years active | 1983–present |
| Spouse | David Burger |
| Family | Douglas Bernheim (brother) |
Robin Jill Bernheim is an American television producer and writer, as well as a story editor and creative consultant.
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]
Personal life
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.