Roberta Maxwell
ActingFrom Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Roberta Maxwell (born 1942) is a Canadian actress. She began studying for the stage at the age of 12. She joined John Clark for 2 years as the child co-host of his Junior Magazine series for CBC Television, before becoming the youngest actress apprentice at the Stratford Shakespeare Festival in Stratford, Ontario, ready to pursue an acting career, where she appeared as Ursula in Much Ado About Nothing, Lady Anne in Richard III, Olivia in Twelfth Night, and Anne in The Merry Wives of Windsor, before going on to England, where she spent three years in repertory. She made her West End debut with Robert Morley and Molly Picon in A Majority of One. She debuted on Broadway in The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie in 1968, going on to five more plays with the Tyrone Guthrie Theatre in Minneapolis. In 1974 she was back on Broadway playing the role of Jill in Equus, which starred Anthony Hopkins. In 1982, she starred as Rosalind in the Stratford Festival's stage production of Shakespeare's As You Like It, a production which was videotaped and telecast on Canadian television in 1983. Those, and many more plays, took her on to a successful television and film career. In 2009 and 2010 she appeared in two episodes of the Syfy series Warehouse 13. Description above from the Wikipedia article Roberta Maxwell, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Known For
Filmography — Acting
Brokeback Mountain
Jack's Mother
Philadelphia
Judge Tate
Dead Man Walking
Lucille Poncelet
Popeye
Nana Oyl
The Postman
Irene March
Psycho III
Tracy Venable
The Changeling
Eva Lingstrom
Hungry Hearts
Anna
Last Night
Mrs. Wheeler
Mistrial
Judge Friel
Percy
Louise Schmeiser
Fall
Joan Alterman
What Makes a Family
Claire
Gracie's Choice
Judge
The Killing Floor
Ms. Alimet
Special Bulletin
Diane Silverman
Vinegar Hill
Ellen's Mother
Rich Kids
Barbara Peterfreund
The Tale of the Frog Prince
Queen Beatrice / Griselda
Lois Gibbs and the Love Canal
Mary Belinski
Shadow Lake
Louise Garvey
Unearthing
Mary Hart
Full Disclosure
Sarah Archer
Our Town
Mrs. Webb
The Other Side of Victory
Nancy Turner
Riding the Bus with My Sister
Valerie
The Gabriels: Election Year in the Life of One Family, Play One: Hungry
Patricia Gabriel
Forget Me Never
Water Damage
Dr. Winston
The Mermaid Chair
Nelle
When Innocence Is Lost
Cynthia Adams
The Ten-Year Lunch
Dorothy Parker (voice)
The Gabriels: Election Year in the Life of One Family, Play Three: Women of a Certain Age
Patricia Gabriel
A Touch of the Poet
Sara Melody
What We Have
Rosemary
Booky Makes Her Mark
Aunt Aggie
Life in a Day
Carla Jennings
The Gabriels: Election Year in the Life of One Family, Play Two: What Did You Expect?
Patricia Gabriel
As You Like It
Rosalind
We the Jury
Lydia Bosco
The Inherited
Alice
The Widowing of Mrs. Holroyd
Clara
The Dinosaur Hunter
Adult Julia
Kingsgate
A Great Big Thing
Eve
Gwendolyn Green
Gwendolyn Green