Roberta Alexandra Mary Taylor (née Roberts;[1] 26 February 1948 – 6 July 2024) was an English actress and author.

She was the Princess Kosmonopolis in Tennessee Williams' Sweet Bird of Youth in 1992, and in 1995 played the Nurse in Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet at the Lyric Hammersmith.

[3] She also appeared in episodes of the television series Doctors, Sharman, Holby City, Silent Witness, Shakespeare and Hathaway and Inspector Morse.

[6] In 2009, she starred as the long-suffering Phoebe Rice in John Osborne's play The Entertainer at the Royal Exchange Theatre in Manchester.

In 2011 she appeared in the West End revival of Pygmalion, alongside Rupert Everett, Kara Tointon and Diana Rigg.