Barbara Tarbuck Biography

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, Water Engine by David Mamet, Neil Simon's Brighton Beach Memoirs and Broadway Bound, Joe Chaikin's production of America Hurrah!, and Enter The Night by Marie Irene Fornes. 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, the aged mother on Coldcase who comes to terms with her murdered son's homosexuality, Dwayne 'the rock' Johnson's mother in Walking Tall, and Kevin McKidd's mother on Journeyman.