Kimberly McCullough, beloved to General Hospital fans for her long-running role as Robin Scorpio-Drake, has booked a new film project. Deadline reported that she will helm the upcoming original musical No Te Olvides (which translates to “Don’t Forget”). Xochitl Gomez (Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness) and actress/singer Maite Perroni (who starred on the Mexican telenovela Rebelde and earned two Latin Grammy nominations as part of the pop group RBD) are set to star. The film is currently in preproduction and is slated to begin filming this fall.
Career Pivot
As a child, McCullough got her start in the arts as a dancer. She recalled as a 2021 guest on Soap Opera Digest‘s podcast, Dishing With Digest, “I was discovered at a breakdance battle when I was 5 years old, in downtown L.A., and then from there, they gave me and my dance partner, Chet, parts in the movie Breakin’ 2: Electric Boogaloo as featured dancers. As the shooting went on, they actually decided to give me a line in the movie and that’s why I always say I became an accidental actress, because that wasn’t supposed to be what happened.”
At the age of 7, she booked GH, beating out Shiri Appleby (Roswell, Unreal), the other finalist for the role of Robin. (It was her second audition ever; the first was for Webster.) She made her Port Charles debut in 1985, winning Daytime Emmys in 1989 and 1996 for her work on the show. She left the show from 1996-97, but returned from 1998-99, then guest-starred in 2000 and 2004 (and also played Robin for several episodes of All My Children in 2001). In 2005, she returned to GH full-time, remaining through 2012, a period during which she also portrayed Robin on the GH spinoff General Hospital: Night Shift, which ran for two seasons in 2007 and 2008.
When McCullough left GH in 2012, it was to focus on her burgeoning directing career. And while she did reprise Robin again (from 2013-14, 2015-16, 2016-17, 2018, and 2021), she has primarily been working as a director. She remarked on Digest‘s podcast about her 2012 departure, “I got into the ABC Directing program and I could really just commit and say, ‘I’m a director, that’s what I do.’ I remember that I was so supported. I remember all of the people on the show were like, ‘We’re so sad to see you go, but you need to go,’ you know? It was almost like graduating college or something and hoping to make my parents proud. At the time, I had no idea if any of this was going to work out. Thankfully, it has.”
Among her directing credits, McCullough has worked on multiple seasons of High School Musical: The Musical: The Series, multiple episodes of The Bold Type, as well as episodes of ABC’s The Conners and Hulu’s How I Met Your Father.With this latest project, McCullough continues to make her loved ones at GH proud. When she announced the film on Instagram, she wrote, “Thrilled to be working with this incredible team!” – and among the first to comment was Port Charles mom Finola Hughes (Anna), who responded, “Yessssssss!!!! Let’s goooo!!!”
