Actor

Roberta Maxwell

June 17, 1941 · Toronto, Canada

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.

Notable work

7.8
Brokeback Mountain (2005)
as Jack's Mother
7.7
Philadelphia (1993)
as Judge Tate
7.3
Dead Man Walking (1995)
as Lucille Poncelet
6.3
The Postman (1997)
as Irene March
7.7
Warehouse 13 (2009)
as Rebecca St. Clair
7
The Changeling (1980)
as Eva Lingstrom
5.6
Popeye (1980)
as Nana Oyl
7.3
Law & Order (1990)
as Teresa Brewster
5.7
Psycho III (1986)
as Tracy Venable

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