Roberta Maxwell
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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
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.
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Born
Jun 17, 1941
Toronto, Canada
Known For
Acting
Movies
46 acting
0 crew
Popularity
0.4
Known For
Brokeback Mountain
2005
as Jack's Mother
Dead Man Walking
1995
as Lucille Poncelet
Popeye
1980
as Nana Oyl
The Postman
1997
as Irene March
Philadelphia
1993
as Judge Tate
Psycho III
1986
as Tracy Venable
The Changeling
1980
as Eva Lingstrom
Hungry Hearts
2015
as Anna
Last Night
1998
as Mrs. Wheeler
Percy
2020
as Louise Schmeiser
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