Patricia Clarkson

The 56-year-old America actress, Patricia Davies Clarkson was born on 29th December 1959. She was born in New Orleans, Louisiana to Jackie Clarkson, a politician, and a councilwoman and Arthur Clarkson, a school administrator at the Department of Medicine at the Louisiana State University. She studied speech pathology at the same college her father works for. She transferred to New York City’s Fordham University, where she graduated with a degree in Drama. She then went ahead and earned her MFA at the Yale School of Drama. Her acting career is impressive and diverse with a long list of accolades and critical acclaims. She has performed on Broadway, and the credits include The House of Blue Leaves, The Eastern Standard and The Elephant Man for which she got nominated for The Tony Awards for Best Featured Actress in a Play. Her debut was in the film The Untouchable in 1987, where she played the wife of Elliot Ness at the age of 27. She has played more of character roles than a leading role.

Her breakthrough performance was in High Art in 1998 where she played Greta, a German drug addict, homosexual former model. She also featured in the movie The Dead Pool, Everybody’s All American and Rocket Gibraltar. Her television performances include Davis Rules, Alex Haley’s Queen, a miniseries, Murder One as Annie Hoffman, and her impeccable performance in Six Feet Under Six Feet Under is an American comedy-drama televis >> Read More... for which she won the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Guest Actress in a Drama Series for the year 2002 and 2006. Her magnificent work in movies worth mentioning are in Pieces of April where she played a bad-mannered mother dying of cancer, for which she got nominated for an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress. In 2003, she starred in The Station Agent, which got her six awards and five nominations namely the Special Jury Prize at the Sundance Film Festival, National Society of Film Critics Award for Best Supporting Actress and nominations for the Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Leading Role. Her other movies include All the Real Girls in 2003 as Elvira Fine, ‘Good Night, and Good Luck’ in 2005 as Shirley Wershba, Shutter Island Click to look into! >> Read More... in 2010 and Easy A in 2010.