Patricia Clarkson
Patricia Clarkson
Patricia Davies Clarksonis an American actress. She has starred in many leading and supporting roles in films such as The Station Agent, The Green Mile, Far from Heaven, High Art, Dogville, Good Night, and Good Luck, Easy A, and Cairo Time. She was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress and the Golden Globe for her performance in Pieces of April. She twice won the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Guest Actress in a Drama Series for her...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionMovie Actress
Date of Birth29 December 1959
CityNew Orleans, LA
CountryUnited States of America
Two movies with a combined budget of under a million bucks is like yahoo!
It's maybe a little sweeter now. Maybe it's a little easier now because I have a life and I hopefully am more secure in mind and body and spirit.
It's like going to someone's country home in the middle of the city.
They think the worst is over, but we have plenty to go. We have disease and the inability to get sustenance to them food and water and they have no sanitary facilities. They have to get out.
Any further recognition is great because it always brings attention to the films and I just want people to see the movies.
I saw the Hyatt for the first time yesterday and I can't believe anyone who was in that building is alive. But I must say, I am glad to be home with my family and I am fortunate that they are all fine and well.
My major was liberal arts, but I studied a lot of theater, Fordham had an amazing theater program - really comprehensive.
But I do really love watching the news and going back and forth between all the news channels. That's really just kind of the highlight of my day.
I'd say the majority of the films I go see are art films, but I sometimes like to see big-budget pictures.
But no, had I been successful in my 20s I would have been just fine. But it is nice to defy the odds.
I love writers. All of my best friends are writers.
And I have a really great agent and I know it's almost an oxymoron to say you have a smart agent. But she is and she has a beautiful aesthetic and she has guided me.
I think it would be hard to go the distance in this business without a sense of humor.
I'll read a script maybe twice, but I'll think about the role more than I'll rehearse lines.