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    christineBy christineDecember 11, 2023Updated:December 11, 2023No Comments3 Mins Read
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    SYNOPSIS: The intimate portrait of a woman who returns home to care for her dying mother. A delicate and nuanced story of a fractured family, the story explores universal themes of abandonment, aging, acceptance, and redemption.


    PATRICIA CLARKSON 

    The New Orleans born-and-bred Patricia Clarkson took her basic college studies at Louisiana State University, studying speech for two years, before transferring to New York’s Fordham University and graduating with honors in theatre arts.

    Accepted into the prestigious Yale School of Drama graduate program, she earned her Master of Fine Arts after gracing a wide range of productions including “Electra,” “Pericles,” “Twelfth Night”, “The Lower Depths,” “The Misanthrope,” “Pacific Overtures” and “La Ronde”. From there she took on New York City where she attracted strong East Coast notice in 1986 for her portrayal of Corrina in “The House of Blue Leaves” and in such other plays as “Eastern Standard” (1988) and “Wolf-Man” (1989).

    Known for her organic approach to acting, the flaxen-maned actress decided to try out her trademark whiskey voice in Hollywood at age 28, making her movie debut as Mrs. Eliot Ness in Brian De Palma’s The Untouchables (1987) starring Kevin Costner. The following years she gained attention for playing Samantha Walker in The Dead Pool (1988) where she starred opposite Clint Eastwood’s popular “Dirty Harry” character. Playing supportive, wifely types at the onset, she became a strong contender for character stardom by the mid-to-late 1990s, not only on stage but in the independent film arena.

    On stage Patricia received impressive notices for her contributions to the plays “Raised in Captivity,” “The Ride Down Mt. Morgan,” “Three Days of Rain” and, in particular, “The Maiden’s Prayer,” which nabbed her both Outer Critics Circle and Drama Desk Award nominations. In 2004, she finally enacted the classic part she seemed born to play, that of Southern belle Blanche DuBois in the Kennedy Center production of “A Streetcar Named Desire”. She earned glowing notices.

    On camera she was offered roles of marked diversity. From the heavier dramatics of a film like Pharaoh’s Army (1995), she could move deftly into light comedy, courtesy of Neil Simon in the TV-movie London Suite (1996). It was, however, her bleak, convulsive portrayal of Greta, a strung-out, heroin-happy German has-been actress, opposite a resurgent Ally Sheedy in the acclaimed art film High Art (1998) that truly put Patricia on the indie map. From this she was handed a silver plate’s worth of excitingly offbeat roles. In 2003 alone, Patricia received a special acting prize at the Sundance Film Festival for her superb work in three films: as a somber, grieving artist in The Station Agent (2003), a cold-hearted cancer victim in Pieces of April (2003), and a jokey, get-with-it mom in All the Real Girls (2003). She was nominated for a “Best Supporting Actress” Oscar for the second film mentioned.

    On TV Patricia received two Emmys for her recurring guest part as Frances Conroy’s free-spirited sister in the acclaimed black comedy series Six Feet Under (2001). She also received the New York Film Critics Circle and the National Society of Film Critics awards for her supporting work in the gorgeous, 1950s-styled melodrama Far from Heaven (2002), as a prim and proper Stepford-wife and deceptive friend to Julianne Moore.

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