Roberta Maxwell

Infobox actor


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name = Roberta Maxwell
birthdate = 1942
birthplace = Toronto, Ontario

Roberta Maxwell (born c. 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 kid 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, as she explains in a 1958 interview. There, 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 3 years in repertory and 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 5 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. Those, and many more plays, took her on to a successful television and film career.

Her last appearance was in the 2005 film "Brokeback Mountain".

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}

Filmography

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"

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: "" (mini-series)
*2002: "Benjamin Franklin" (mini-series)

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: ""
*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"

External links

*imdb name|id=0561809|name=Roberta Maxwell
*ibdb name|id=51946|name=Roberta Maxwell
* [http://www.northernstars.ca/actorsmno/maxwellroberta.html Northern Stars: Roberta Maxwell]
* [http://archives.cbc.ca/IDCC-1-68-249-1283/arts_entertainment/stratford_festival/ 1958 sound interview, Stratford, Ontario]