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 "

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". 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

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. 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,

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, Mary Stuart, La Bete,

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, Garden, Pal Joey, Black Snow, Kabuki Medea, and Emma's Child. She has also appeared in many film and TV productions, including '' The Company'', ''

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'', '' Will of Their Own'',

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's '' Mother's Courage'', Paramount's ''

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'', and ''

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''. She is a 1972 graduate of

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