Roberta Findlay (née Hershkowitz;[1] born 1943)[citation needed] is an American film director, cinematographer, producer and actress.
[3] Findlay was born Roberta Hershkowitz in Brooklyn, New York City to Hungarian-Jewish immigrant parents, and was raised in the Bronx.
[4] While attending the City College of New York, she met Michael Findlay, a student who had recently transferred there after leaving seminary school, where he was studying to become a Catholic priest.
[5] He asked her to perform a piano accompaniment for a silent film screening he was holding on the university campus.
[5] By her own account, Roberta's marriage to Michael was tempestuous, and the couple were separated by 1974 due to him suffering "psychological issues.