Biography
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia 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...
Known For
Complete Filmography

Percy
2020
as Louise Schmeiser
Percy Schmeiser, a third-generation farmer, gets sued by a corporate giant for allegedly using their patented seeds. With little resources to fight a ...
Gwendolyn Green
2017
as Gwendolyn Green
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 residenc...

The Gabriels: Election Year in the Life of One Family, Play Three: Women of a Certain Age
2017
as Patricia Gabriel
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...

The Gabriels: Election Year in the Life of One Family, Play Two: What Did You Expect?
2017
as Patricia Gabriel
Back in the kitchen of the Gabriel family, the country is now in the midst of the general election for President. In the course of one evening in the ...

The Gabriels: Election Year in the Life of One Family, Play One: Hungry
2017
as Patricia Gabriel
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 l...

Unearthing
2016
as Mary Hart
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...

The Inherited
2015
as Alice
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,...

Hungry Hearts
2015
as Anna
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.

What We Have
2014
as Rosemary
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 com...

The Killing Floor
2007
as Ms. Alimet
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 a...

The Mermaid Chair
2006
as Nelle
A married woman (Basinger) falls in love with a Benedictine monk.

Booky Makes Her Mark
2006
as Aunt Aggie
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, b...

Brokeback Mountain
2005
as Jack's Mother
In 1960s Wyoming, two men develop a strong emotional and sexual relationship that endures as a lifelong connection complicating their lives as they ge...

Riding the Bus with My Sister
2005
as Valerie
A woman spends time with her developmental disabled sister after the death of their father.

Vinegar Hill
2005
as Ellen's Mother
Family secrets surface when a married couple returns to the husband’s hometown, where his overbearing family interferes with their imagined new start.

Gracie's Choice
2004
as Judge
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 i...

Full Disclosure
2001
as Sarah Archer
A reporter discovers a woman who is a suspected terrorist.

What Makes a Family
2001
as Claire
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 sna...

The Dinosaur Hunter
2000
as Adult Julia
A 13-year-old girl and her older brother live on a farm where paleontologists search for fossils.

Forget Me Never
1999
Diane McGowin was employed as an administrative assistant for a group of attorneys in private practice. She found herself forgetting things, especiall...

Water Damage
1999
as Dr. Winston
One year after the drowning death of his young son, Paul Preedy (Daniel Baldwin) receives an invitation to a reunion at his prep school. Paul decides ...

Life in a Day
1999
as Carla Jennings
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. T...

Shadow Lake
1999
as Louise Garvey
A writer's mysterious disappearance on an ice-covered lake holds the clues to a missing gemstone and a grisly murder.

Last Night
1998
as Mrs. Wheeler
Various citizens of Toronto anxiously await the end of the world, which is occurring at the stroke of midnight on New Year's Day.

The Postman
1997
as Irene March
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. Into this ...

Fall
1997
as Joan Alterman
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 i...

When Innocence Is Lost
1997
as Cynthia Adams
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 chi...

Mistrial
1996
as Judge Friel
When a cop-killer goes free, a detective's search for personal justice veers dangerously out of control. Declaring a mistrial, he takes the accused, t...

Dead Man Walking
1995
as Lucille Poncelet
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.

Philadelphia
1993
as Judge Tate
Two competing lawyers join forces to sue a prestigious law firm for AIDS discrimination. As their unlikely friendship develops their courage overcomes...

Our Town
1989
as Mrs. Webb
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, an...

The Ten-Year Lunch
1987
as Dorothy Parker (voice)
The story of the legendary wits who lunched daily at the Algonquin Hotel in New York City during the 1920s. The core of the so-called Round Table grou...

Psycho III
1986
as Tracy Venable
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 tha...

Special Bulletin
1983
as Diane Silverman
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...

As You Like It
1983
as Rosalind
Shakespeare's As You Like It is a delightful romantic comedy , lavishly staged by the renowned Stratford Festival. A favorite with audiences througho...

The Tale of the Frog Prince
1982
as Queen Beatrice / Griselda
A spoiled, selfish princess's fate becomes entwined with a zany and witty frog with a secret past.

Lois Gibbs and the Love Canal
1982
as Mary Belinski
A poorly-educated housewife fights companies polluting her hometown's water table in upstate New York during the 1970s.

Popeye
1980
as Nana Oyl
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 wi...

The Changeling
1980
as Eva Lingstrom
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 tha...

Rich Kids
1979
as Barbara Peterfreund
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.
The Other Side of Victory
1979
as Nancy Turner
This film dramatizes the problems facing ordinary American soldiers during the Revolutionary War, explaining why most ultimately chose to stay and fig...

The Widowing of Mrs. Holroyd
1974
as Clara
Mrs. Holroyd is married to a loutish miner, who drinks, patronizes prostitutes, and apparently brutalizes her. When a gentlemanly neighbor makes roman...

A Touch of the Poet
1974
as Sara Melody
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 B...
A Great Big Thing
1968
as Eve
A 23-year-old Canadian wanders aimlessly throughout his wasted life.
Kingsgate
N/A
A literature student (Elizabeth Dancoes) and her professor lover (Duncan Fraser) meet her folks, then visit a famous writer and his wife (Barbara Marc...