Barbara Robertson

{{short description|American actress and singer}}

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Barbara Robertson is an American actress and singer. She plays the role of "Jan the Unnamed" for the American Theatre Company's Pre-Broadway Chicago production of "Yeast Nation".{{cite web|title=Hilarious 'Yeast Nation' ferments in North Center|url=http://www.diningchicago.com/blog/2009/09/24/yeast-nation-ferments-in-north-center/|work=Dining Chicago|accessdate=December 28, 2010|archive-date=September 23, 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150923214846/http://www.diningchicago.com/blog/2009/09/24/yeast-nation-ferments-in-north-center/|url-status=dead}} Recently{{when|date=February 2015}} she played the role of Mame at the Drury Lane Theatre.

She played Madame Morrible in the Chicago production of Wicked. She first played the role from May 8, 2007, through June 25, 2008, and again to close out the production from November 18, 2008, until the final performance on January 25, 2009. She also played a limited engagement with the touring production of the show on its stop in Chicago, which ran from December 1, 2010, through January 23, 2011.

She has also performed in Angels of America: Part I & II, Hamlet, A Little Night Music, Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?, Mary Stuart, La Bete, Grand Hotel, The Goat, or Who Is Sylvia?, Garden, Pal Joey, Black Snow, Kabuki Medea, and Emma's Child. She has also appeared in many film and TV productions, including The Company, The Straight Story, Will of Their Own, Disney's Mother's Courage, Paramount's The Untouchables, and Early Edition.

She is a 1972 graduate of Glenbard West High School in Glen Ellyn, Illinois.

Filmography

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1987

| Light of Day

| Arguing Woman

1989

| Cold Justice

| Nancy

1990

| Shaking the Tree

| Nurse

1998

| Stricken

| Banyon's Mom

1999

| The Straight Story

| Deer Woman

2001

| Soul Survivors

| Margaret

2003

| The Company

| Harriet

2012

| Adventures in the Sin Bin

| Old Woman

= Television =

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1989

| A Mother's Courage: The Mary Thomas Story

| Miss Day, Receptionist

| TV movie

1990

| Goodnight Sweet Wife: A Murder in Boston

| Shelley

| TV movie

1992

| In the Best Interest of the Children

| Angela Bayer

| TV movie

1997

| Early Edition

| Sally Deluca

| 1 Episode

1998

| A Will of Their Own

| Maria Jermaine

| 1 Episode

2023

| Somebody Somewhere

| Darlene

| recurring

= Short films =

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2007

| Hunter

| Anne

2012

| After Christmas

| Linda

2014

| The First Men

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References

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Category:Living people

Category:American musical theatre actresses

Category:1968 births

Category:21st-century American women

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