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