Barbara Robertson is an American

United States

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 actress and singer. She is currently playing 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 may be most well known for playing Madame Morrible in the Chicago production of Wicked

Wicked (musical)

Wicked is a musical with music and lyrics by Stephen Schwartz and a book by Winnie Holzman. It is based on the Gregory Maguire novel Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West , a parallel novel of the 1939 film The Wizard of Oz and L. Frank Baum's classic story The Wonderful Wizard...

. 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 is currently playing a limited engagement with the touring production of the show on its stop in Chicago, which runs from December 1, 2010 through January 23, 2011.

She has also performed in Angels of America: Part I & II, Hamlet

Hamlet (opera)

Hamlet is an opéra in five acts by the French composer Ambroise Thomas, with a libretto by Michel Carré and Jules Barbier based on a French adaptation by Alexandre Dumas, père and Paul Meurice of Shakespeare's play Hamlet.- Ophelia mania in Paris:...

, A Little Night Music

A Little Night Music

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, Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?

Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?

Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? is a play by Edward Albee that opened on Broadway at the Billy Rose Theater on October 13, 1962. The original cast featured Uta Hagen as Martha, Arthur Hill as George, Melinda Dillon as Honey and George Grizzard as Nick. It was directed by Alan Schneider...

, Mary Stuart

Maria Stuart (play)

Mary Stuart , a play by Friedrich Schiller, depicts the last days of Mary, Queen of Scots. The play consists of five acts, each divided into several scenes. The play had its première in Weimar, Germany on 14 June 1800...

, La Bete

La Bête

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, Grand Hotel

Grand Hotel (musical)

Grand Hotel is a musical with a book by Luther Davis and music and lyrics by Robert Wright and George Forrest, with additional lyrics and music by Maury Yeston....

, The Goat, or Who is Silvia?, Garden

Garden

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, Pal Joey

Pal Joey

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, Black Snow

Black Snow

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, Kabuki Medea, and Emma's Child. Additionally, Robertson has performed in many film and TV productions, including The Company, Straight Story, Will of Their Own, Disney's Mother's Courage, Paramount's

Paramount Pictures

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 The Untouchables, and Early Edition

Early Edition

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She is a 1972 graduate of Glenbard West High School

Glenbard West High School

Glenbard West High School, or GWHS , and locally referred to as "West," is a public four-year high school located at the corner of Ellyn Avenue and Crescent Boulevard in Glen Ellyn, Illinois, a western suburb of Chicago, Illinois, in the United States. It is part of Glenbard Township High School...

 in Glen Ellyn, IL. Was born in Chicago,IL in 1968