Name Barbara Bryne Role Film actress | Spouse Dennis Spence Children Susan Jane Spence | |
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Nominations Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Actress in a Play Movies and TV shows Amadeus, The Bostonians, Two Evil Eyes, Into the Woods, Love - Sidney Similar People Roderick Cook, Robert Westenberg, Charles Kay, Danielle Ferland, Elizabeth Berridge | ||
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Barbara Bryne (born 1 April 1929) is a British-born U.S.-based stage, film and television actress. Onstage she has appeared in comedy, dramatic and musical productions. The London-born actress studied at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Arts (RADA).
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- Personal life
- Career
- Partial filmography
- References
Personal life
Born in London on 1 April 1929 as Barbara Isabel Birkinshaw, she married Dennis Spence (born circa 1930) in early 1953 in Sidcup, Kent, England. Their daughter, Susan Jane Spence, is a veterinarian.
Career
Bryne came to Canada in the early 1960s and has been a frequent performer at the Stratford Shakespeare Festival since 1966 and at the Guthrie Theater (Minneapolis) for 50 years. In 1982, she was nominated for a Drama Desk Award as Outstanding Actress in a Drama for her role as "Kath" in the first American production of Joe Orton's Entertaining Mr. Sloane (which starred Maxwell Caulfield in the title role).
She was in the original Broadway productions of Stephen Sondheim's Sunday in the Park with George (as George's mother) and Into The Woods (as Jack's mother). She also performed in Sondheim's A Little Night Music in Washington, D.C. She was also a frequent performer at Minneapolis' Guthrie Theater. Among the plays in which she appeared there were Mother Courage, The Glass Menagerie, She Stoops to Conquer, Design for Living, and, most recently, Pygmalion.
On television she played "Mrs. Gaffney" on the Tony Randall series, Love, Sidney (1981–83). In 2011 she appeared as Queen Victoria in H.M.S. Pinafore, which was filmed for PBS in late August 2011. Among the films in which she has appeared are: Romeo & Juliet (1993 TV film), Into the Woods (1991 TV film), Two Evil Eyes (1990; "The Black Cat" segment), Sunday in the Park with George (1986 TV film), Amadeus (1984), The Bostonians (1984), and The School for Scandal (1975 TV film).