Roberta Brown

Roberta Brown is an American swordmaster and actress.

She is known for her work on Queen of Swords where she worked as a sword coach and onscreen as a sword double for female characters played by Tessie Santiago, Bo Derek, and Paulina Galvez. She has choreographed numerous fights and sword fights for other television series, theatre, and motion pictures.

Career Brown took up fencing at college and continued her studies as an actress and stage combatant at the Webber Douglas Academy of Dramatic Art (London), where she received a Master of Fine Arts equivalency. She became one of a limited number of female swordmasters who worked in theatre, film and television. She acted as fencing double for Lucy Liu in the film Charlie's Angels, and choreographed a scene in a TV episode of ER

She was a theatre student at Brandeis University where she was introduced to fencing, and has been acclaimed as an outstanding alumna. She has practiced her craft for over ten years. She also doubled Bo Derek in master shots and Paulina Gálvez wagon scene in the episode "The Witness". She has been a stunt double on Masterpiece Theatre programs. Though never having trained him, she fenced with actor/swordmaster Anthony De Longis onscreen. At the Beverly Hills Fencers' Club, Brown is Director of Theatrical Combat.

Variety wrote that "Roberta Brown's fight choreography heightens the brutal confrontations." Backstage West calls her oeuvre "disturbing and convincing." The Fight Master opined: "It is her solid experience, talent, and smarts that allow her to thrive in an otherwise male-dominated field."

Published works Mary Read (Swordmaster)

Film and television

Fight direction/stunts Lapse (2009/I) (fight director) A Gothic Romance (2004) (fight director) Boudica/Warrior Queen (2003) Masterpiece Theatre (stunt double: Alex Kingston)*Boudica (2003) (fight director) (sword master)

Theater swordmaster

"Julius Cäsar in Murau".................Shakespeare in Styria, Austria "Romeo and Juliet......................Open House Vienna Theatre (Schlosspark Pötzleinsdorf), Vienna Austria "Macbeth"..................Shakespeare's Globe Theatre, London UK "Oman ... O Man!"..............Kennedy Center, Washington DC "Hamlet".......................European Shakespeare Days, Austria "Twelfth Night"................Globe Theater (Los Angeles) "Romeo and Juliet".............European Shakespeare Days, Austria Days "Names"........................Lee Strasberg Theatre "The Ugly Play"................Santa Monica Playhouse "Hamlet".......................Playhouse West "Ravish".......................New Dance Theatre "15-Minute Hamlet".............Shakespeare and Friends "Maria Morevna"................Ziggurat Theatre Ensemble "Fortinbras"...................Howard Fine Theater "Romeo and Juliet".............Shakespeare and Friends "Twelfth Night"................Gascon Center Theatre "Hasta La Muerte"..............Gascon Center Theatre "Improvimagic".................Hollywood's Magic Castle "Horatio Hornblower"...........Long Beach Pier "Richard the Lionheart"........Vienna's English Theatre, Austria "Briar Patch"..................Ventura Court Theater "The Erpingham Camp"...........The Drayton Arms, London