FrameThrower · Actors · Roberta Maxwell
Roberta Maxwell
5 films · 301 frames · top-billed in 1 · 1980–2005
Born 17 June 1941 · Toronto, Canada
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Roberta Maxwell 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 Anne in The Merry Wives of Windsor, before going on to England, where she spent three years in repertory.…
Awards
On FrameThrower we have: 5 films · 301 frames · top-billed in 1 · 1980–2005
- Dora Mavor Moore Award for Best Leading Actress (General Theatre)1982
- Obie Award for Distinguished Performance by an Actress1977
- Obie Award for Distinguished Performance by an Actress1970
How their films are shot
Measured across 301 frames from the 5 films we hold. This is the look of the work Roberta takes, not a claim about any single frame — we index the cast of a film, never the people in a shot.
Across the 5 films we hold, 54% of their frames are day, 45% natural — the look of the work Roberta takes.
Time of day
Lighting
Shot size
Camera angle
Mood
Films in the library
Every poster opens that film — stills, cinematography notes and colour palette.
A reference database for filmmakers
FrameThrower is a fully machine-searchable film database and visual reference library — all 301 frames from Roberta Maxwell's 5 films, and 5,000+ films besides, indexed frame by frame and readable by AI. Search it in plain language, from a reference image, or by colour; call it from an API, an MCP server or an SDK. It's the reference layer for making the next movie.