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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 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 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.
Most Popular Roberta Maxwell Trailers
Total trailers found: 46
10 May 2007
A literary agent moves into a penthouse apartment. Soon after the move, he receives crime scene photographs that seem to have taken place in his new apartment.
22 October 2005
In 1960s Wyoming, two men develop a strong emotional and sexual relationship that endures as a lifelong connection complicating their lives as they get married and start families of their own.
24 March 2017
Eight months after we first meet the Gabriels, Patricia, the family matriarch, joins her children and daughters-in-law as they prepare a meal from the past and consider the future of their country, town and home.
22 March 2017
Hungry is the first in a three-play cycle introducing us to the Gabriels of Rhinebeck, New York. These three plays unfold in real time and track the lives of the Gabriels throughout the coming presidential election year.
12 June 1979
This film dramatizes the problems facing ordinary American soldiers during the Revolutionary War, explaining why most ultimately chose to stay and fight.
01 April 1989
This classic American play, performed on an almost-bare stage, is about the mundane but rather pleasant lives of the Gibbs family, the Webb family, and their neighbors in Grover's Corners, New Hampshire, early in the 20th century.
15 January 2015
The relationship of a couple who meet by chance in New York City is put to the test when they encounter a life or death circumstance.
22 December 1993
Two competing lawyers join forces to sue a prestigious law firm for AIDS discrimination. As their unlikely friendship develops, their courage overcomes the prejudice and corruption of their powerful adversaries.
20 January 2015
Eve has married the man of her dreams but when they return to live in the house willed to him by his first wife who died under horrific circumstances, it becomes a waking nightmare as Eve falls into a spiral of suspicion and madness.
29 December 1995
A death row inmate turns for spiritual guidance to a local nun in the days leading up to his scheduled execution for the murders of a young couple.
01 January 1999
A writer's mysterious disappearance on an ice-covered lake holds the clues to a missing gemstone and a grisly murder.
12 December 1980
Popeye is a super-strong, spinach-scarfing sailor man who's searching for his father. During a storm that wrecks his ship, Popeye washes ashore and winds up rooming at the Oyl household, where he meets Olive.
25 December 1997
In 2013, there are no highways, no I-ways, no dreams of a better tomorrow, only scattered survivors across what was once the United States.
23 October 1998
Various citizens of Toronto anxiously await the end of the world, which is occurring at the stroke of midnight on New Year's Day.
28 March 1980
After a tragic event happens, composer John Russell moves to Seattle to try to overcome it and build a new and peaceful life in a lonely big house that has been uninhabited for many years.
24 April 1974
Cornelius "Con" Melody is an Irish tavern keeper in New England who lives in reverence of his former days as a nobleman and decorated officer in the British army during the Napoleonic wars.
20 May 1999
A scientific experiment in rapid-cell growth goes awry when a lab assistant steals the developed serum and injects it into his pregnant girl friend.
09 September 2006
When her mentally ill, elderly mother begins mutilating herself, Jessie (Kim Basinger) returns to her hometown to care for her.
09 October 2020
Percy Schmeiser, a third-generation farmer, gets sued by a corporate giant for allegedly using their patented seeds.
22 January 2001
Janine and Sandy are a lesbian couple who decide to have a baby, but after a few years Sandy dies. This tragedy is exploited by Sandy's parents to snatch the girl from Janine's care.
02 April 1986
When Maureen Coyle, a suicidal nun who resembles Norman's former victim, Marion Crane, arrives at the motel, all bets are off and "Mother" is less than happy.
02 November 1996
When a cop-killer goes free, a detective's search for personal justice veers dangerously out of control.
12 January 2004
For as long as she can remember, 16 year-old Gracie has been raising her four siblings, each of whom has a different, absent father and their mother is on the fast track to self-destruction.
01 June 2006
The Thomsons, like many families, have hit hard times as Thomas can't find steady work. Fifteen year old Booky takes the family situation in stride, being matter-of-fact about being poor.
12 September 2014
What We Have is is the tale of Maurice, a prisoner of his past who is unable to connect with the people in his new Northern Canadian small town, a community that is only too ready to welcome this European misfit into their arms.
21 September 2017
Inspired by true events, this is the story of Gwendolyn Green, an aging widow who spends her days in solitude inside a fenced-in Palm Springs residence, as if trapped in another era.
20 June 1997
For Michael Shiver, life as an easy-going cab driver in New York suddenly changes when he picks up supermodel Sarah Easton and falls head over heels in love.
17 February 1982
A poorly-educated housewife fights companies polluting her hometown's water table in upstate New York during the 1970s.
17 August 1979
Two 12-year-olds, the products of Upper West Side broken homes, struggle to make sense of their parents lives and their own adolescent feelings.
30 July 1999
One year after the drowning death of his young son, Paul Preedy (Daniel Baldwin) receives an invitation to a reunion at his prep school.
20 March 1983
An evening of TV programming is interrupted by breaking news: in Charleston, South Carolina, two Coast Guard personnel and two members of a local news team have been taken hostage by a group of terrorists who are seeking to destroy the triggers of all local nuclear devices.
01 May 2005
A woman spends time with her developmental disabled sister after the death of their father.
15 May 2001
A reporter discovers a woman who is a suspected terrorist.
08 May 1974
Mrs. Holroyd is married to a loutish miner, who drinks, patronizes prostitutes, and apparently brutalizes her.
23 June 1968
A 23-year-old Canadian wanders aimlessly throughout his wasted life.
03 October 1999
Diane McGowin was employed as an administrative assistant for a group of attorneys in private practice.
28 September 1987
The story of the legendary wits who lunched daily at the Algonquin Hotel in New York City during the 1920s.
01 January 1983
Shakespeare's As You Like It is a delightful romantic comedy , lavishly staged by the renowned Stratford Festival.
16 October 1996
Jury has to decide on a murder case but some of the jurors have their own agendas or are biased. Sounds like '12 Angry Men' but this is not a remake.
07 April 1997
When Erica French opts to keep the baby she conceived in high school, she never dreamed that one day she would be fighting for custody against the child's father, Scott Stone.
11 September 1982
A spoiled, selfish princess's fate becomes entwined with a zany and witty frog with a secret past.
05 August 2000
A 13-year-old girl and her older brother live on a farm where paleontologists search for fossils.
20 April 2016
Healy James and Fisher Hart share a deep secret, but they don't know what it is. While Healy is tormented by compulsions he doesn't understand, Fisher studies the science of love, and avoids Healy, who triggers feelings she can't explain.
06 March 2005
Family secrets surface when a married couple returns to the husband’s hometown, where his overbearing family interferes with their imagined new start.
23 March 2017
Back in the kitchen of the Gabriel family, the country is now in the midst of the general election for President.
31 August 1989
A literature student (Elizabeth Dancoes) and her professor lover (Duncan Fraser) meet her folks, then visit a famous writer and his wife (Barbara March).
