Barbara Bryne (1 April 1929 – 2 May 2023) was a British-American actress of film, theatre and television.

Bryne came to Canada in the early 1960s and was a frequent performer at the Stratford Shakespeare Festival (Stratford, Ontario) since 1966 and at the Guthrie Theater (Minneapolis, Minnesota) for 50 years.

[1][2] 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).

Among the plays in which she appeared there were Mother Courage, The Glass Menagerie, She Stoops to Conquer, Design for Living, and Pygmalion.

[3] On television she played "Mrs. Gaffney" on the Tony Randall series, Love, Sidney (1981–1983).