Quinesentially an actress of the stage, Ms. Robie is popularly known for the characters she has portrayed on screen: a ferocious, eccentric townie in David Lynch’s Twin Peaks (1990), a psychotic murderess in Wes Craven’s The People Under the Stairs (1991), and a possessed zealot in Wes Craven’s Vampire in Brooklyn (1995) ‘police station’ scene.