Canadian actress
Roberta Maxwell
Born Roberta Farnham Maxwell
(1941-06-17 ) June 17, 1941 (age 83) Toronto, Ontario
Occupation Actress (1956-present)
Roberta Farnham Maxwell (born June 17, 1941)[ 1] is a Canadian stage, film, and television actress.
Biography
Maxwell began studying for the stage in her early teens. She joined John Clark for two years as the child co-host of his Junior Magazine series for CBC Television . She first performed at the Stratford Shakespeare Festival in 1956.[ 2]
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 first traveled to New York at age 19 in 1960. 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 and Peter Firth .[ 3]
Maxwell played Lavinia Mannion in the 1978 PBS adaptation of Mourning Becomes Electra . 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[ 4] In 2009-10 she appeared in two episodes of the Syfy series Warehouse 13 .[ 5]
Filmography
Television
Year
Title
Role
Notes
1960
Just Mary
(voice)
Unknown episodes
1962
Emergency-Ward 10
Nurse Merritt
2 episodes
1965
Festival
Ria Hennessy
Episode: "A Cheap Bunch of Nice Flowers"
1974
A Touch of the Poet
Sara Melody
TV movie
1974
Great Performances
Clara
Episode: "The Widowing of Mrs. Holroyd"
1974
Another World
Barbara Weaver
Unknown episode
1976
The Other Side of Victory
Unknown
TV movie
1978
For the Record
Carol
Episode: "A Matter of Choice"
1978
Mourning Becomes Electra
Lavinia Mannon
Unknown episodes
1982
Lois Gibbs and the Love Canal
Mary Belinski
TV movie
1982
Faerie Tale Theatre
Griselda / Queen Beatrice
Episode: "The Tale of the Frog Prince"
1983
As You Like It
Rosalind
TV movie
1983
Special Bulletin
Diane Silverman
TV movie
1984
St. Elsewhere
Cat Lady
Episode: "Hello, Goodbye"
1986-1987
Airwaves
Jean Lipton
26 episodes
1988
All My Children
Nanny Judith
1 episode
1989
Great Performances
Mrs. Webb
Episode: "Our Town"
1989
The Equalizer
Unknown
Episode: "Heart of Justice"
1989
The Hitchhiker
Marybeth
Episode: "The Dying Generation"
1996
We the Jury
Lydia Bosco
TV movie
1996
Mistrial
Judge Friel
TV movie
1997
When Innocence Is Lost
Cynthia Adams
TV movie
1997
Liberty!
Mercy Otis Warren
4 episodes
1998
As the End of the Day: The Sue Rodriguez Story
Doe
TV movie
1999
Shadow Lake
Louise Garvey
TV movie
1999
Too Rich: The Doris Duke Story
Myra
TV movie
1999
Forget Me Never
Unknown
TV movie
1999
Twice in a Lifetime
Eloise Hawke / Eileen Kotter
Episode: "School's Out"
2000
Law & Order
Teresa Brewster
Episode: "Collision"
2000
The Outer Limits
Mrs. Reynolds
Episode: "Inner Child"
2000
Life in a Day
Carla Jennings
TV movie
2000
The Dinosaur Hunter
Adult Julia
TV movie
2001
What Makes a Family
Claire
TV movie
2002
Scar Tissue
Mora Carlisle-Nevsky
TV movie
2002
Benjamin Franklin
Deborah Read Franklin
TV miniseries documentary 3 episodes
2003
The Atwood Stories
Lois
Episode: "Death by Landscape"
2004
Gracie's Choice
Judge
TV movie
2005
Vinegar Hill
Ellen's Mother
TV movie
2005
Riding the Bus with My Sister
Valerie
TV movie
2005
Queer as Folk
Michael's Lawyer
Episode: "5.3"
2006
Booky Makes Her Mark
Aunt Aggie
TV movie
2006
The Mermaid Chair
Nelle
TV movie
2009-2010
Warehouse 13
Rebecca St. Clair
2 episodes
2010
Rookie Blue
Marie D'Abramo
Episode: "Bullet Proof"
2017
The Gabriels: Election Year in the Life of One Family
Patricia Gabriel
3 episodes
Awards and recognition
References
^ Lucas, Ralph (September 17, 2014). "Roberta Maxwell" .
^ "A short trip for Robera Maxwell" . The Gazette . Montreal. March 21, 1986. p. D1. Retrieved June 19, 2014 .
^ Roberta Maxwell at the Internet Broadway Database
^ 1958 sound interview, Stratford, Ontario , cbc.ca; accessed March 30, 2018.
^ "Warehouse 13 (TV Series 2009–2014)" , IMDb.com , retrieved May 8, 2020
External links
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