Roberta Maxwell
Known for Acting · 62 credits
- Born
- 1941-06-17 (age 84)
- Place of birth
- Toronto, Canada
Biography
From 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.
Known For
TV Shows (16)
Law & Order
1990
as Teresa Brewster
Great Performances
1971
as Clara / Mrs. Webb
The Equalizer
1985
as Justice Lindsey Smith
St. Elsewhere
1982
as Cat Lady
Warehouse 13
2009
as Rebecca St. Clair
The Outer Limits
1995
as Mrs. Reynolds
Rookie Blue
2010
as Marie D'Abramo
Faerie Tale Theatre
1982
as Queen Beatrice / Griselda
The Hitchhiker
1983
as Marybeth
Twice in a Lifetime
1999
as Eloise Hawke / Eileen Kotter
Another World
1964
Liberty!
1997
as Mercy Otis Warren
Too Rich: The Secret Life of Doris Duke
1999
as Myra
Mourning Becomes Electra
1978
as Lavinia Mannon
Airwaves
1986
The Atwood Stories
2003
as Lois
Movies (46)
Brokeback Mountain
2005
as Jack's Mother
Philadelphia
1993
as Judge Tate
The Postman
1997
as Irene March
Popeye
1980
as Nana Oyl
Dead Man Walking
1995
as Lucille Poncelet
The Changeling
1980
as Eva Lingstrom
Psycho III
1986
as Tracy Venable
Hungry Hearts
2015
as Anna
Fall
1997
as Joan Alterman
Mistrial
1996
as Judge Friel
Last Night
1998
as Mrs. Wheeler
Special Bulletin
1983
as Diane Silverman
Rich Kids
1979
as Barbara Peterfreund
Percy
2020
as Louise Schmeiser
What Makes a Family
2001
as Claire
The Killing Floor
2007
as Ms. Alimet
Water Damage
1999
as Dr. Winston
The Gabriels: Election Year in the Life of One Family, Play One: Hungry
2017
as Patricia Gabriel
Gracie's Choice
2004
as Judge
The Dinosaur Hunter
2000
as Adult Julia
Forget Me Never
1999
Riding the Bus with My Sister
2005
as Valerie
The Other Side of Victory
1979
as Nancy Turner
When Innocence Is Lost
1997
as Cynthia Adams
The Tale of the Frog Prince
1982
as Queen Beatrice / Griselda
The Inherited
2015
as Alice
We the Jury
1996
as Lydia Bosco
Full Disclosure
2001
as Sarah Archer
Lois Gibbs and the Love Canal
1982
as Mary Belinski
Booky Makes Her Mark
2006
as Aunt Aggie
Our Town
1989
as Mrs. Webb
The Gabriels: Election Year in the Life of One Family, Play Two: What Did You Expect?
2017
as Patricia Gabriel
The Mermaid Chair
2006
as Nelle
Vinegar Hill
2005
as Ellen's Mother
What We Have
2014
as Rosemary
Shadow Lake
1999
as Louise Garvey
A Touch of the Poet
1974
as Sara Melody
Life in a Day
1999
as Carla Jennings
The Gabriels: Election Year in the Life of One Family, Play Three: Women of a Certain Age
2017
as Patricia Gabriel
The Widowing of Mrs. Holroyd
1974
as Clara
As You Like It
1983
as Rosalind
The Ten-Year Lunch
1987
as Dorothy Parker (voice)
Unearthing
2016
as Mary Hart
A Great Big Thing
1968
as Eve
Kingsgate
1989
Gwendolyn Green
2017
as Gwendolyn Green
About Roberta Maxwell
From 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 o… With 62 credits spanning from 1964 to 2020, Roberta Maxwell has appeared in 46 films and 16 TV shows.
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- Brokeback Mountain (2005) — as Jack's Mother
- Philadelphia (1993) — as Judge Tate
- The Postman (1997) — as Irene March
- Popeye (1980) — as Nana Oyl
- Dead Man Walking (1995) — as Lucille Poncelet
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