Roberta Maxwell
| Roberta Maxwell | |
|---|---|
| Born | c. 1942 Toronto, Ontario, Canada |
| Occupation | Actress |
| Years active | 1957–present |
Roberta Maxwell (born c. 1942) is a Canadian actress.
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[edit] Background
Roberta Maxwell 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, to pursue an acting career.
[edit] Stratford Shakespeare Festival and England
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.
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. In 2011, she played the duchess of York in Richard III.
[edit] Broadway
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, Minnesota. In 1974 she was back on Broadway playing the role of Jill in Equus, which starred Anthony Hopkins.
[edit] TV and film
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.
[edit] Awards and recognition
- 1970: Obie Award, Whistle in the Dark
- 1971: Drama Desk Award, Slag (David Hare's first play)
- 1977: Obie Award, Ashes (with Brian Murray for Joseph Papp and Manhattan Theatre Club)
[edit] Filmography
[edit] Movies
- 1968: A Great Big Thing
- 1979: Rich Kids
- 1980: The Changeling
- 1980: Popeye
- 1986: Psycho III
- 1993: Philadelphia
- 1995: Dead Man Walking
- 1997: Fall
- 1997: The Postman
- 1998: Last Night
- 1999: Water Damage
- 2001: Full Disclosure (video release)
- 2005: Brokeback Mountain
[edit] Television series
- 1957-58: Junior Magazine (co-host)
- 1960: Just Mary (puppet voice)
- 1974: Another World
- 1979: Mourning Becomes Electra (mini-series)
- 1985-1987: Airwaves
- 1988: All My Children
- 1997: Liberty! The American Revolution (mini-series)
- 1999: Too Rich: The Life of Doris Duke (mini-series)
- 2002: Benjamin Franklin (mini-series)
- 2009-10: Warehouse 13
[edit] Television movies
- 1974: A Touch of the Poet
- 1982: Lois Gibbs and the Love Canal
- 1983: Special Bulletin
- 1989: Our Town
- 1996: We the Jury
- 1996: Mistrial
- 1997: When Innocence Is Lost
- 1998: At the End of the Day: The Sue Rodriguez Story
- 1999: Forget Me Never
- 1999: Life in a Day
- 2001: What Makes a Family
- 2002: Scar Tissue
- 2003: Death by Landscape
- 2004: Gracie's Choice
- 2005: Riding the Bus with My Sister
- 2005: Vinegar Hill
- 2006: The Mermaid Chair
