Roberta Brown (swordmaster)
| Roberta Brown | |
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Roberta Brown at Shakespeare in Styria
in Murau (Austria), 2014 |
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| Born |
Roberta Ellen Brown April 2, 1965 Warwick, Rhode Island, U.S. |
| Nationality | American |
| Alma mater |
Brandeis University Webber Douglas Academy of Dramatic Art |
| Occupation | Actress Swordmaster |
| Website | www |
Roberta Brown is an American swordmaster, actress, magician, and writer.
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 (inexhaustive lists below).
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 only an extremely 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, choreographed a scene in a TV episode of ER between Noah Wyle and Goran Visnjic. She worked on the syndicated TV series Queen of Swords and as fight director on the TV film Boudica with Alex Kingston.
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 was brought onto the TV series Queen of Swords by the initial swordmaster and stunt co-ordinator Anthony De Longis to train Tessie Santiago's stunt double Natalia Guijarro. 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.
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