Roberta Weiss (born November 15, 1961 in
Medicine Hat,
Alberta,
Canada) is a Canadian actress. She sometimes works professionally as Roberta Bizeau. Weiss played
Flame Beaufort on
NBC's
soap opera ''
Santa Barbara''. Weiss is Jewish.
Career
Weiss enrolled in the Manitoba School of Theatre and Allied Arts at the age of 16, later moving to Toronto to study theatre arts at
York University.
She gained national attention in Canada in an advertising campaign for
Crispy Crunch
Crispy Crunch is a hard chocolate bar with a crispy peanut butter flake inside that is made by Cadbury in Canada. Harold Oswin, an employee of Neilson Dairy, William Neilson, developed "Crispy Crunch" in 1930.
History
Harold Oswin was a candy ...
. In 1986 she starred in the movie ''High Stakes''. In 1988 Weiss appeared as a scantily-clad island girl in the controversial cult French sex-comedy film ''
Mangeuses d'Hommes''. She also played the lead in the controversial film ''
How to Make Love to a Negro Without Getting Tired
''How to Make Love to a Negro Without Getting Tired'' (french: Comment faire l'amour avec un nègre sans se fatiguer) is a 1989 French-language Canadian drama film directed by , starring Isaach de Bankolé and Maka Kotto, and written by Haitian au ...
'',
which Peter Rainier of the ''
Los Angeles Times'' called "a flat parody." Weiss played "incendiary con artist"
Flame Beaufort on
NBC's
soap opera ''
Santa Barbara'' from 1990 to 1991,
and later appeared in ''
Family Passions'', a soap opera produced in Canada with German funding.
Personal life
Weiss married her ''Santa Barbara'' co-star
Roscoe Born on September 30, 1994.
References
External links
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American television actresses
American soap opera actresses
Living people
1961 births
21st-century American women