Barbara Tarbuck

Trained on a Fulbright Grant to the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art, Barbara's New York theatre work includes "Landscape & Silence" by 'Harold Pinter' (qv), "Water Engine" by 'David Mamet' (qv), 'Neil Simon' (qv)'s "Brighton Beach Memoirs" and "Broadway Bound", 'Joseph Chaikin' (qv)'s production of "America Hurrah!", and "Enter The Night" by 'Maria Irene Fornes' (qv). Recent regional standouts include "Long Days Journey Into Night" at Dallas Theatre Center, "Death of a Salesman" at San Diego Repertory, "The Cripple Of Inishman" at the Geffen, "Wonderful World" at Laguna Playhouse, "Six Characters in Search of an Author" at Williamstown, and "Blue Window" and "Sidney Bechet Killed a Man" at South Coast Repertory. Favorite screen roles: the woman with 12 dogs on _ER (1994)_ (qv), the aged mother on _Cold Case (2003)_ (qv) who comes to terms with her murdered son's homosexuality, 'Dwayne Johnson' (qv)'s mother in _Walking Tall (2004)_ (qv), and 'Kevin McKidd' (qv)'s mother on _Journeyman (2007)_ (qv).::'Barbara Tarbuck' (qv)