B: June 17, 1941 in Toronto, Ontario
Roberta Maxwell, in addition to her work on-screen, also provided the voice of Dorothy Parker in the Academy Award-winning Documentary The Ten Year Lunch. She has received two Obie Awards, a Drama Desk Award and a Villager Award, all for Best Actress. A leading stage actress in the United States since 1969, she began her career in Canada and spent some of her formative years in Stratford, Ontario. On Broadway, she has been seen in The Oresteia, One in Every Marriage, Henry V, Othello, Hay Fever, Equus, and The Merchant and Our Town. She has also played opposite Julie Harris in the national tour of Lettice and Lovage. Off-Broadway, Roberta Maxwell has been seen in Slag, winning a Drama Desk Award, Ashes, winning an Obie, and Mary Stuart, winning a Villager Award. |
Features & TV Movies: A Great Big Thing (1968) A Touch of the Poet (TV-1974) Popeye (1980) Philadelphia (1993) Full Disclosure (VR-2001) Unearthing (2015) Percy (2020) Air Waves (1986-1987) Liberty! The American Revolution (1997, mini-series) Benjamin Franklin (2002, mini-series) The Gabriels: Election Year in the Life of One Family (2017, mini-series) |