BIO

​​Roberta Maxwell, an American Actress, was 16 she when she began her career with Canada’s Stratford Festival as their first apprentice and where she received her classical training.  She later returned from New York, to play Nina in The Seagull, Lady Macbeth,  Rosalind in As You Like It and Elmire in Tartuffe.  Her television  and radio career began at the CBC as Tutu on  “Howdy Doodie” with Robert Goulet and she went on to play a multitudinous number of roles, starring in productions including "A Sweet Bunch of Nice Flowers" with Colleen Dewhurst.  

​​She made her Broadway Debut  in There’s One In Every Marriage.  Later she played in the Tony Award-winning The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie with Zoe Caldwell.  She returned to Broadway in the Guthrie Theater productions of The House of Atreus  and The Irresistible Rise of Arturo Ui with Len Cariou.  She originated the role of Jill in the Tony Award-winning production of Equus, with Anthony Hopkins directed by John Dexter.  Lincoln Center productions include The Merchant of Venice with Christopher Walken and Rosemary Harris, Our Town with Spaulding Gray (later filmed for Masterpiece Theatre/PBS), and an American tour of Horton Foote’s The Carpetbaggers Children with Jean Stapleton.

​​Off-Broadway she received two Obies for Whistle In The Dark by Tom Murphy, and for David Rudkin’s Ashes at the Public Theater/MTC.  She played the title role in the German playwright Hildesheimer’s version of Mary Stuart, directed by Des McAnuff  and was in the American Premiere of The Cripple of Inishmaan by Martin McDonagh, both at the Public Theater.  She has played leading roles in Regional Theaters including The Guthrie, San Diego Old Globe Theatre, A.C.T. Stratford CT, to name a few. 

​​She toured with Julie Harris in the American production  of Peter Schaffer’s Lettice and Lovage, which played in theaters across America.

​​As a member of the PBS  television community she played many leading roles including ‘Vivie’ in Mourning Becomes Electra.  She played recurring characters on the Soap Operas “All My Children” and “Another World.”  Among other series are “Law and Order,”  “Warehouse 13,” “Rookie Blue,” and “The Money” (HBO). 

​​Her film roles include ‘Nana Oyl' in “Popeye” with Robin Williams,  'Judge Tate' in “Philadelphia,” ‘Tracy Venable’ in “Psycho 111,” “The Changeling” with George C. Scott, the Academy Award winning “Deadman Walking” with Sean Penn and Susan Sarandon, and as ‘Jack’s Mother’ with Heath Ledger in “Brokeback Mountain,” directed by Ang Lee. She played  Adam Driver’s mother in Severio Costanzo’s  “Hungry Hearts.”​​

​​Recently, she was seen in Richard Nelson’s trilogy The Gabriel Plays commissioned by the Public Theater, which toured Europe, UK, Hong Kong and Australia and was televised on PBS and in “Percy,” starring opposite Christopher Walken.

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