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Trivia (17)

Went to ivy-league Yale college to study dramatic arts.





Daughter of New Orleans, LA councilwoman Jackie Clarkson

Graduated Fordham University's College at Lincoln Center, 1982.





Credits Ingrid Bergman as one of her favorite actresses, and the reason she became one.

Was member of the dramatic jury at the Sundance Film Festival in 2000.



The youngest of five girls.



Has four sisters.





For a few years after Roger Dodger (2002) premiered at the 2002 Tribeca Film Festival, she was the girlfriend of Campbell Scott



Close friend of Amy Ryan

Nominated in the Outstanding Actress in Made for Television Movie FIVE, at The Women's Image Network (WIN) Awards 2012.





After working with director Will Gluck she vowed to star in every movie he would make from then on and subsequently starred in his films Freunde mit gewissen Vorzügen (2011) and Annie (2014).

Her maternal grandmother was the daughter of a Basque Spanish father and a Lithuanian Jewish mother. Patricia's other ancestry includes French/Cajun, German, English, Irish, Scottish, Scots-Irish/Northern Irish, and remote Dutch.





Won the 2019 Golden Globe Award in the Best Performance by an Actress in a Supporting Role in a Series, Limited Series or Motion Picture Made for Television category for her role as Adora Crellin in Sharp Objects (2018).

Has never married and has no children. Interviewed in 2016, she said, "I've never wanted to marry, I've never wanted children - I was born without that gene.".



Personal Quotes (5)

There were some movies I passed on early on, and some movies I didn't get, some big studio films. But now I look back and I realize that I really came later in life to a kind of career. I was somewhat typecast as suburban "mom" type roles early on. But I've always had this deep voice, so I think it was tough sometimes for directors to cast me as the ingénue. Because I'd walk in and look a certain way, then open my mouth and have this...voice! So I think I sort of grew into my voice, my face, my body as I got older.



I think most people see me as much darker, more serious and possessing a certain gravitas, when I'm really quite insane. I guess I want everyone to see my insanity. I have a far more nutty and unpredictable side.



I go where I need to go. If I need to look glamorous or spiffy or young, or battling cancer, or a drugged-out and hippie type, it hopefully will be projected in my face. That's the beauty of acting: hopefully it comes through. It's not about hair and makeup, a different color of hair. It's about being malleable. I just always hope it's going to work because you never know.



I've dated several men with motorcycles. I would like to say I've dated several poet laureates, but no. I've dated several men with fucking motorcycles. Motorcycles make me love a man more. Any guy who has a motorcycle--you want to be on the back of his motorcycle, and if your feelings were slightly ambivalent, suddenly they're not. When you hang on, it's just wind. And sex. And speed, And hair.

