Barbara Bryne

Barbara Bryne (born 1 April 1929, London) 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).

Born 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.

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.

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