Roberta Weiss (born November 15, 1961 in Medicine Hat, Alberta, Canada[citation needed]) 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.
Roberta Weiss | |
|---|---|
| Born | (1961-11-15) November 15, 1961 (age 60) |
| Other names | Roberta Bizeau |
| Years active | 1979–1993 |
| Spouse | Roscoe Born (1994–2000) |
| Children | 1 |
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.[1][2] She gained national attention in Canada in an advertising campaign for Crispy Crunch.[3] In 1986 she starred in the movie High Stakes.[4] 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,[2] which Peter Rainier of the Los Angeles Times called "a flat parody."[5] Weiss played "incendiary con artist" Flame Beaufort on NBC's soap opera Santa Barbara from 1990 to 1991,[2] and later appeared in Family Passions, a soap opera produced in Canada with German funding.[6]
Weiss married her Santa Barbara co-star Roscoe Born on September 30, 1994.[7]