Emily Robinson was born in New York City on October 18th, 1998 to Debbie von Ahrens and James Robinson. She began her career modeling at age six, she was represented by Ford Models. At the age of seven, she came home and declared that she wanted to start acting. Six months later she was taping her first television commercial and was being represented by Innovative Artists and Marilyn Zitner Management. Emily started working in front of a live audience in Saturday Night Live! She has since made a total of eight appearances on the show.