Patricia Charbonneau
 |
This article includes a list of references, but its sources remain unclear because it has insufficient inline citations. Please help to improve this article by introducing more precise citations. (March 2012) |
| Patricia Charbonneau | |
|---|---|
| Born | April 19, 1959 Valley Stream (on Long Island), New York, USA |
Patricia Charbonneau (born April 19, 1959) is an American actress, probably best known for playing the part of Cay Rivvers in Desert Hearts, first film role. Her father, a retired businessman, is French, her mother Austrian, she is the youngest of 10 children.
Patricia Charbonneau was born in Valley Stream, New York on Long Island. She graduated in 1977 from Valley Stream Central High School, which she had attended with fellow actors Steve Buscemi and Steve Hytner, as well as writer Ed Renehan. She later attended Boston University as a theater major, which she left after a month. Charbonneau's talent, insistence and femininity made her an actress, it didn't seem to affect on her career.
Charbonneau began on the New York stage in a production of Revengers...A Tragedea, at Playwrights Horizons. She then went to Louisville, Kentucky, where she was a member of the Actors Theatre of Louisville. While there she originated the role of Lea in My Sister in this House, a part that she played off-Broadway as well. Charbonneau had not worked in films at all when Donna Deitch cast her in Desert Hearts in 1985. Two days before shooting began, Charbonneau found out that she was pregnant with her first child, whom she still sometimes refers to as her "Desert Hearts baby." In the following year she appeared in Michael Mann's Manhunter (based on the novel Red Dragon) and then played Anna, the lead, in Call Me (1988), which also featured fellow Valley Streamer Buscemi. Her television appearances have included Crime Story, The Equalizer, Wiseguy, Murder She Wrote, Matlock, New York Undercover, and Law & Order: Criminal Intent. She then stopped acting but recently came out of retirement to film a role in the upcoming thriller 100 Feet starring Famke Janssen.
In 1995, she featured with Michael Dorn in the Legend Entertainment adventure game Mission Critical.
Since March 2007, Charbonneau has been a faculty member of the Hudson Valley Academy of Performing Arts[1] in West Taghkanic, New York, where she teaches an acting workshop for children and teens. She now has two daughters, Hannah Catherine is 27 and the younger 15-year-old.
Patricia is a sister to novelist Eileen Charbonneau.
[edit] Filmography
- Desert Hearts (1985)
- Manhunter (1986)
- Crime Story TV Series (1986–88)
- The Equalizer TV Series (1987) (one episode)
- Shakedown (1988)
- Call Me (1988)
- Wiseguy TV Series (1989) (five episodes)
- Matlock TV Series (1989) (one episode)
- RoboCop 2 (1990)
- Murder, She Wrote TV Series (1991) (one episode)
- K2 (1992)
- Walker, Texas Ranger TV Series (1993) (one episode)
- Viper (1994) (one episode)
- SeaQuest DSV TV Series (1995) (two episodes)
- Profiler TV Series (1997) (one episode)
- Diagnosis: Murder TV Series (1997) (one episode)
- She's All That (1999)
- Kiss the Sky (1999)
- Law & Order: Criminal Intent TV Series (2001) (one episode)
- Law & Order TV Series (2002) (one episode)
- Law and Order: Special Victims Unit [2008] [one episode]
[edit] References
[edit] External links
- Patricia Charbonneau on Yahoo! Movies
- Patricia Charbonneau at the Internet Movie Database
- Desert Hearts at the Internet Movie Database
- Patricia Charbonneau article at People Magazine 1986
 |
This article about a United States film actor or actress born in the 1950s is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by expanding it. |
