Roberta Maxwell

Roberta Maxwell

Born	1942 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.

[edit] 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}