Barbara Robertson

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". Recently 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

Film Year Film Role 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 Year Show Role Notes 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 Year Film Role 2007 Hunter Anne 2012 After Christmas Linda 2014 The First Men