Roberta Maxwell

Roberta Maxwell

1941-06-17 Toronto, Canada 45 Credits

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...

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Percy

Percy

2020

as Louise Schmeiser

6.7
Acting

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

Acting

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

The Gabriels: Election Year in the Life of One Family, Play Three: Women of a Certain Age

2017

as Patricia Gabriel

Acting

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?

The Gabriels: Election Year in the Life of One Family, Play Two: What Did You Expect?

2017

as Patricia Gabriel

Acting

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

The Gabriels: Election Year in the Life of One Family, Play One: Hungry

2017

as Patricia Gabriel

Acting

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

Unearthing

2016

as Mary Hart

2.0
Acting

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

The Inherited

2015

as Alice

3.4
Acting

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

Hungry Hearts

2015

as Anna

6.6
Acting

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

What We Have

2014

as Rosemary

4.3
Acting

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

The Killing Floor

2007

as Ms. Alimet

5.3
Acting

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

The Mermaid Chair

2006

as Nelle

4.2
Acting

A married woman (Basinger) falls in love with a Benedictine monk.

Booky Makes Her Mark

Booky Makes Her Mark

2006

as Aunt Aggie

5.7
Acting

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

Brokeback Mountain

2005

as Jack's Mother

7.8
Acting

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

Riding the Bus with My Sister

2005

as Valerie

3.4
Acting

A woman spends time with her developmental disabled sister after the death of their father.

Vinegar Hill

Vinegar Hill

2005

as Ellen's Mother

4.3
Acting

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

Gracie's Choice

2004

as Judge

7.0
Acting

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

Full Disclosure

2001

as Sarah Archer

3.4
Acting

A reporter discovers a woman who is a suspected terrorist.

What Makes a Family

What Makes a Family

2001

as Claire

6.5
Acting

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

The Dinosaur Hunter

2000

as Adult Julia

5.5
Acting

A 13-year-old girl and her older brother live on a farm where paleontologists search for fossils.

Forget Me Never

Forget Me Never

1999

5.5
Acting

Diane McGowin was employed as an administrative assistant for a group of attorneys in private practice. She found herself forgetting things, especiall...

Water Damage

Water Damage

1999

as Dr. Winston

3.6
Acting

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

Life in a Day

1999

as Carla Jennings

6.0
Acting

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

Shadow Lake

1999

as Louise Garvey

4.0
Acting

A writer's mysterious disappearance on an ice-covered lake holds the clues to a missing gemstone and a grisly murder.

Last Night

Last Night

1998

as Mrs. Wheeler

6.6
Acting

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

The Postman

1997

as Irene March

6.3
Acting

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

Fall

1997

as Joan Alterman

6.5
Acting

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

When Innocence Is Lost

1997

as Cynthia Adams

7.1
Acting

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

Mistrial

1996

as Judge Friel

5.0
Acting

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

Dead Man Walking

1995

as Lucille Poncelet

7.3
Acting

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

Philadelphia

1993

as Judge Tate

7.7
Acting

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

Our Town

Our Town

1989

as Mrs. Webb

9.0
Acting

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

The Ten-Year Lunch

1987

as Dorothy Parker (voice)

6.5
Acting

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

Psycho III

1986

as Tracy Venable

5.6
Acting

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

Special Bulletin

1983

as Diane Silverman

7.0
Acting

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

As You Like It

1983

as Rosalind

6.0
Acting

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

The Tale of the Frog Prince

1982

as Queen Beatrice / Griselda

6.1
Acting

A spoiled, selfish princess's fate becomes entwined with a zany and witty frog with a secret past.

Lois Gibbs and the Love Canal

Lois Gibbs and the Love Canal

1982

as Mary Belinski

6.0
Acting

A poorly-educated housewife fights companies polluting her hometown's water table in upstate New York during the 1970s.

Popeye

Popeye

1980

as Nana Oyl

5.5
Acting

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

The Changeling

1980

as Eva Lingstrom

7.0
Acting

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

Rich Kids

1979

as Barbara Peterfreund

5.0
Acting

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

Acting

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

The Widowing of Mrs. Holroyd

1974

as Clara

Acting

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

A Touch of the Poet

1974

as Sara Melody

Acting

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

Acting

A 23-year-old Canadian wanders aimlessly throughout his wasted life.

Kingsgate

N/A

Acting

A literature student (Elizabeth Dancoes) and her professor lover (Duncan Fraser) meet her folks, then visit a famous writer and his wife (Barbara Marc...