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Patricia Clarkson
Patricia Davies Clarkson is an American actress. She has starred in numerous leading and supporting roles in a variety of films ranging from independent film features to major film studio productions. Her accolades include a Golden Globe Award and three Primetime Emmy Awards, in addition to nominations for an Academy Award and a Tony Award.
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Born 29 December 1959 · Q229268
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2026· 3 entries
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Public attention spiked: 7,837 Wikipedia readers in one day, 3.9× the usual 2,026, with 0 article edits.
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2025· 1 entry
The Guardian: Patricia Clarkson: ‘When women make equal pay, everybody wins’
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2024· 1 entry
The Guardian: Long Day’s Journey Into Night review – Brian Cox upstaged by Patricia Clarkson’s morphine fiend
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2023· 1 entry
Clarkson assumed the lead role in the espionage thriller series Gray, co-produced by AGC Television and Lionsgate Films
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2019· 1 entry
The Guardian: Patricia Clarkson: ‘I’m a free spirit… this is the life I want’
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2018· 1 entry
Won Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actress – Series, Miniseries or Television Film (2018).
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2017· 2 entries
Co-starred in Sally Potter's drama The Party and guest-starred on the Netflix series House of Cards
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Directed by Sally Potter, for which she won a British Independent Film Award for Best Supporting Actress
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2014· 1 entry
Clarkson returned to Broadway portraying Madge Kendal opposite Bradley Cooper in a production of The Elephant Man, which earned her a Tony Award nomination for Best Featured Actress in a Play
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2013· 2 entries
Had a supporting role in the thriller The East (2013) as the leader of a private intelligence firm
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She has never married and has no children, stating in a 2013 interview, "I've never wanted to marry, I've never wanted children—I was born without that gene." Three of Clarkson's four sisters have children and she is very close to her nieces and nephews.
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2011· 1 entry
In the digital short "3-Way (The Golden Rule)"
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2010· 2 entries
Clarkson had a supporting role in the thriller Shutter Island, followed by roles in the comedies Easy A and Friends with Benefits
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Clarkson appeared opposite Leonardo DiCaprio in the Martin Scorsese-directed thriller Shutter Island, playing a woman escaped from a psychiatric institution
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2009· 1 entry
For the reopening of the Mahalia Jackson Theatre for the Performing Arts
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2008· 1 entry
Producer Gerald Peary approached Clarkson to do the voice-over for the documentary film For the Love of Movies: The Story of American Film Criticism
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2007· 2 entries
Had a supporting role in the romantic comedy No Reservations, as well as in the comedy-drama Lars and the Real Girl, in which she portrayed a psychiatrist treating a man in love with a sex doll
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Purchased a loft in Greenwich Village for US$1
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2006· 1 entry
Awarded Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Guest Actress in a Drama Series for Six Feet Under (2006).
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2003· 3 entries
Including The Baroness and the Pig; Lars von Trier's experimental drama Dogville, the critically acclaimed indie film The Station Agent, playing an artist who befriends a diminutive man (Peter Dinklage) who suddenly appe
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Gained acclaim for her portrayals of a cancer-stricken matriarch who reunites with her daughter in Pieces of April (2003), for which she was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress, and an artist
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In which she portrayed the headmistress of a girls' boarding school
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2002· 2 entries
Awarded Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Guest Actress in a Drama Series for Six Feet Under (2002).
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Clarkson was cast in a supporting role in Todd Haynes's period drama Far from Heaven, opposite Julianne Moore and Dennis Quaid, playing the neighbor of a repressed housewife in the 1950s
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2001· 1 entry
Had a recurring role on Frasier as Claire French, who dated Frasier Crane, played by Kelsey Grammer
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1999· 2 entries
Awarded Saturn Award for Best Supporting Actress (1999).
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Clarkson appeared in a supporting role as an ailing wife of a prison warden in The Green Mile, which was nominated for a Screen Actors Guild Award for Best Ensemble Cast
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1998· 1 entry
Clarkson had a small role in the critically acclaimed independent romantic comedy Playing by Heart, portraying a woman at a bar who listens to a false story told by a man (Dennis Quaid) as part of his improv class
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1989· 1 entry
In Eastern Standard, portraying a Wall Street investment counselor whose brother (played by Kevin Conroy) is diagnosed with AIDS; the play ran from January to March of that year
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1980· 1 entry
Transferred to Fordham University in New York City to enroll in their undergraduate acting program, from which she graduated summa cum laude in 1982
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1959· 3 entries
Born 1959-12-29.
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In New Orleans, Louisiana, the daughter of Jackie Clarkson (née Brechtel), a New Orleans politician and councilwoman, and Arthur "Buzz" Clarkson, a school administrator who worked at the Louisiana State University School
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Suffolk involving two women vying to acquire a building for their own respective businesses
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