Alice Patten
Alice Patten | |
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Nationality | British |
Occupation | Actress |
Alice Patten (born 28 August 1980) is an English actress, and the daughter of Chris Patten, Baron Patten of Barnes, a prominent British Conservative politician and the last Governor of Hong Kong. She has played a key role in the Bollywood film Rang De Basanti (2006). Her role earned her praise from film critics in India.
Early life
Patten was educated at Island School in Hong Kong and at Queens' College, Cambridge.[citation needed]
Career
Her first major role after graduation was Eugenie in Vincent in Brixton in the West End.[1]
In 2004, she appeared in Jonathan Creek as Gillian Bailey.
In 2005 and 2006, she appeared in English Touring Theatre's Hamlet, playing Ophelia opposite Ed Stoppard's Prince of Denmark.
In 2006, she appeared in the Bollywood film Rang De Basanti as Sue McKinley, a young British woman who comes to India to make a documentary film about the British rule in the Indian subcontinent. In 2008, she played Thea in Hedda, a new version of Ibsen's Hedda Gabler, at London's Gate Theatre and, in 2009, she guest-starred as Arthur's mother Ygraine in the BBC fantasy drama series Merlin.
Patten also played the role of Vicky Anderson, in an episode of New Tricks, the daughter of an English born Hong Kong businessman, Douglas Anderson, who had been involved in questionable building deals in Hong Kong, shortly before the end of British rule in 1997.[2]
References
- ^ Cassandra Jardine, Eastern princess turns West End girl, Daily Telegraph, 29 July 2002
- ^ New Tricks - Dead Man Talking, ABC1, 8:30pm, Friday, 11 February 2011
External links
- English television actresses
- English film actresses
- English stage actresses
- Alumni of Queens' College, Cambridge
- Daughters of barons
- 1980 births
- Living people
- Hong Kong people
- People educated at Island School
- 21st-century English actresses
- European actresses in India
- European actresses in Bollywood
- British expatriates in India
- Actresses of European descent in Indian films
- Actresses of European descent in Bollywood films
- English actor stubs