Patricia Clarkson
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New Orleans, Louisiana, USA
Born and raised in New Orleans, deep-voiced actress Patricia Clarkson studied drama at Yale. She stayed on the East coast working in theater productions before her feature film debut in The Untouchables (1987) as the wife of Elliot Ness. Continuing to work in film, she gained attention for her role as the drug-addicted Greta in the independent film High Art. Also working in TV, she had reoccuring roles on Wonderland and Fraser, and even won an Emmy award for her role as Sarah on the HBO drama Six Feet Under. She gave memorable performances in her smaller film roles, such as the bedridden wife in The Green Mile. Her career really picked up in 2002 with appearances in such films as the Russo brothers' Welcome to Collinwood, Todd Haynes' Far From Heaven, and Lars von Trier's Dogville. In 2003, Clarkson appeared in several films at the Sundance Film Festival, where she won the Outstanding Performance award for her work in All the Real Girls, The Station Agent, and Pieces of April. She continued to work steadily in projects such as the inspirational hockey drama Miracle, and George Clooney's Oscar-nominated Good Night, and Good Luck. She was part of the high-powered ensemble put together for the box-office disappointment All the King's Men, but remained one of the most in-demand character actresses of her time, In 2007 she appeared in Lars and the Real Girl, Married Life, and No Reservations. In 2008 she began a working relationship with Woody Allen when she was cast in Vicky Cristina Barcelona that continued with Whatever Works. She had a single scene in Martin Scorsese's paranoid thriller Shutter Island in 2010, the same year she appeared in the sleeper hit Easy A. The next year she acted in the romantic drama One Day as well as the comedy Friends With Benefits.
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Highest Rated Movies
Filmography
MOVIES
RATING | TITLE | CREDIT | BOX OFFICE | YEAR |
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67% | Almost Love (Sell By) |
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— | 2020 |
37% | Out of Blue |
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— | 2019 |
61% | Jonathan |
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— | 2018 |
56% | The Bookshop |
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— | 2018 |
82% | The Party |
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$0.4M | 2018 |
43% | Maze Runner: The Death Cure |
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$57.1M | 2018 |
0% | Delirium |
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— | 2018 |
No Score Yet | Jonathan |
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— | 2016 |
47% | Maze Runner: The Scorch Trials |
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— | 2015 |
66% | Learning To Drive |
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— | 2015 |
21% | October Gale |
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— | 2015 |
28% | Annie |
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$58.7M | 2014 |
65% | The Maze Runner |
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$98.6M | 2014 |
38% | Last Weekend |
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$3.2k | 2014 |
86% | Regarding Susan Sontag |
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— | 2014 |
76% | The East |
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$1.6M | 2013 |
13% | Main Street |
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$2.1k | 2011 |
36% | One Day |
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$13.8M | 2011 |
68% | Friends With Benefits |
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$55.9M | 2011 |
No Score Yet | Five |
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— | 2011 |
No Score Yet | The Queen of Trees |
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— | 2011 |
No Score Yet | The Flying House |
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— | 2011 |
85% | Easy A |
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$58.5M | 2010 |
18% | Legendary |
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$0.2M | 2010 |
No Score Yet | 2081 |
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— | 2010 |
81% | Cairo Time |
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$1.6M | 2010 |
68% | Shutter Island |
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$125.1M | 2010 |
33% | Blind Date |
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— | 2009 |
50% | Whatever Works |
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$5.3M | 2009 |
No Score Yet | For the Love of Movies: The Story of American Film Criticism |
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— | 2009 |
61% | Phoebe in Wonderland |
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— | 2009 |
No Score Yet | Soul of a People: Writing America's Story |
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— | 2009 |
81% | Vicky Cristina Barcelona |
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$23.2M | 2008 |
54% | Married Life |
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$1.2M | 2008 |
75% | Elegy |
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$3.5M | 2008 |
81% | Lars and the Real Girl |
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$5.9M | 2007 |
42% | No Reservations |
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$43.1M | 2007 |
67% | The Woods |
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— | 2006 |
11% | All The King's Men |
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$7.3M | 2006 |
50% | The Dying Gaul |
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$0.3M | 2005 |
93% | Good Night, And Good Luck |
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$31.6M | 2005 |
81% | Miracle |
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$64.4M | 2004 |
No Score Yet | In the Company of Women |
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— | 2004 |
84% | Pieces of April |
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$2.5M | 2003 |
94% | The Station Agent |
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— | 2003 |
70% | Dogville |
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$1.5M | 2003 |
87% | Far From Heaven |
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$15.9M | 2003 |
72% | All the Real Girls |
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— | 2003 |
55% | Welcome to Collinwood |
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$75.7k | 2002 |
25% | Heartbreak Hospital |
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— | 2002 |
60% | Wendigo |
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— | 2002 |
17% | The Baroness and the Pig |
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— | 2002 |
20% | Carrie |
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— | 2002 |
No Score Yet | Falling Like This |
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— | 2001 |
78% | The Pledge |
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$18.9M | 2001 |
50% | The Safety of Objects |
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$86.8k | 2001 |
65% | Joe Gould's Secret |
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— | 2000 |
78% | The Green Mile |
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— | 1999 |
16% | Simply Irresistible |
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— | 1999 |
60% | Playing by Heart |
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— | 1998 |
75% | High Art |
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— | 1998 |
No Score Yet | Neil Simon's 'London Suite' |
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— | 1996 |
No Score Yet | Pharaoh's Army |
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— | 1995 |
55% | Jumanji |
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— | 1995 |
No Score Yet | Old Man and the Sea |
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— | 1995 |
No Score Yet | Caught in the Act |
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— | 1994 |
No Score Yet | Four Eyes and Six-Guns |
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— | 1993 |
No Score Yet | Legacy of Lies |
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— | 1992 |
No Score Yet | An American Story |
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— | 1992 |
No Score Yet | Queen |
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— | 1992 |
No Score Yet | Blind Man's Bluff |
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— | 1991 |
50% | Tune in Tomorrow... (Aunt Julia and the Scriptwriter) |
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— | 1990 |
No Score Yet | The Old Man and the Sea |
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— | 1990 |
42% | Everybody's All-American |
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— | 1988 |
No Score Yet | Rocket Gibraltar |
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— | 1988 |
55% | The Dead Pool |
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— | 1988 |
83% | The Untouchables |
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— | 1987 |
TV
RATING | TITLE | CREDIT | YEAR |
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90% |
Hemingway
2020
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92% |
Sharp Objects
2018
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No Score Yet |
Watch What Happens Live With Andy Cohen
2009
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No Score Yet |
Nature
1982
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No Score Yet |
Charlie Rose
2013-2017
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No Score Yet |
Jimmy Kimmel Live
2003
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No Score Yet |
Late Night With Seth Meyers
2014
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100% |
The Roosevelts: An Intimate History
2014
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No Score Yet |
The Dust Bowl
2012
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93% |
Parks and Recreation
2009-2020
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81% |
Six Feet Under
2001-2005
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No Score Yet |
The Tonight Show With Jay Leno
1992-2014
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93% |
Frasier
1993-2004
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91% |
Murder One
1995-1997
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82% |
Tales from the Crypt
1989-1996
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57% |
Davis Rules
1991-1992
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No Score Yet |
Law & Order
1990-2010
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No Score Yet |
The Equalizer
1985-1989
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No Score Yet |
Prohibition
2011
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93% |
Wonderland
2000
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Quotes from Patricia Clarkson's Characters
Darwan: | You can't always trust people to behave. |
Wendy: | Ain't that the truth. |
Wendy: | Instead of buying a bicycle, my husband gave adultery a spin. |
Sadie Burke: | The world is full of sluts on skates. |
Joy Burns: | I'm glad we're going, Jim. This way instead of April showing up with some new piercing, tattoo, and, God forbid, staying overnight, this way we get to show up, experience the disaster that is her life, smile, and before we know it, we're on our way back home. |
Rosemary: | You know, I dated a homosexual once. Actually I dated him for a long time. |
Olive Penderghast: | Oh god, please don't tell me you married and had two kids with him. |
Rosemary: | I had a similar situation when I was your age. I had a horrible reputation. |
Olive Penderghast: | Why? |
Rosemary: | Because I slept with a whole bunch of people. Mostly guys. |
Olive Penderghast: | Mom! |
Narrator: | Ralph Ellison: "Let’s face it, there is something called official history. But you couldn’t find the truth about my background in that history. And one of the things that the WPA did is to allow that intermixture between the formal and the folk, the real experience of people as they feel it. We are a country which improvises. We are creating American history." |
Narrator: | Let's face it, there is something called official history. But you couldn't find the truth about my background in that history. And one of the things that the WPA did is to allow that intermixture between the formal and the folk, the real experience of people as they feel it. We are a country which improvises. We are creating American history. |
Rosemary: | Not to mention how have you been dressing this past few day. No judgement, but you kind of look like striper |
Rosemary: | Not to mention how have you been dressing this past few day. No judgement, but you kind of look like striper. |
Olive Penderghast: | Mom! |
Dill: | A high-end stripper, for governors or athletes. |
Brandon: | Is there an Olive here? |
Rosemary: | There's a whole jar of them in the fridge! |
Alison: | drunken hugs |
Alison: | Drunken hugs. |
Dill: | The family member of the week gets to pick the movie |
Olive Penderghast: | You get family member of the week every week. |
Rosemary: | And there's a reason for that. |
Olive Penderghast: | Yeah, you pick family member of the week! |
Rosemary: | Are you accusing me of nepotism? |
Rosemary: | Olive, sweetie! There's a young manhere to see you. He said something about asking for your hand in marriage! |
Olive Penderghast: | Oh happy day Mama! I thought I was going to have to spend my dowry on booze and pills to numb the loneliness. A gentleman caller! |
Lorna: | Bananas in the refrigerator? What are you, Puerto Rican? |
Brandon: | Is there an Olive here? |
Rosemary: | There's a whole jar of them in the fridge! |
Sadie Burke: | The world of full on skates?. |
Sadie Burke: | The world of full on skates? |
Rosemary: | Any friend of Olive's is a friend of our daughters, come on in. |
Rosemary: | Any friend of Olive's is a friend of my daughter. |
Mrs. Margaret White: | (walks outside to see Little Carrie) Carrie, what am I supposed to tell you. |
Mrs. Margaret White: | [walks outside to see Little Carrie] Carrie, what am I supposed to tell you. |
Mrs. Margaret White: | (Little Carrie walks up to her as she talks to her and grabs her arm) Get in the house.... Right.... now..... |
Mrs. Margaret White: | [Little Carrie walks up to her as she talks to her and grabs her arm] Get in the house. Right... now. |
Lorna: | (To Jamie) Do you have a hot boyfriend?. |
Lorna: | [to Jamie] Do you have a hot boyfriend? |
Willa: | Mr. Leroy. |
Gus Leroy: | Call me Gus. |
Brandon: | Is there an Olive here? |
Rosemary: | There's a whole jar of them in the fridge! |
Eliot Ness: | Reporter: They say they're going to repeal Prohibition. What will you do then? Ness: I think I'll have a drink. |
Reporter: | They say they're going to repeal Prohibition. What will you do then? |
Catherine Ness: | I think I'll have a drink. |
Rosemary: | I had a similar situation when I was your age. I had a terrible reputation. |
Olive Penderghast: | Why? |
Rosemary: | Because I slept with a whole bunch of people.....Mostly guys. |
Olive Penderghast: | MOM!! |
Dolores: | You want to uncover the truth? You have to let her go! (If not) then you'll never leave this island. |
Ethel Barton: | The psych-obvious genius of it. Once you're declared insane, then anything you do is considered part of that insanity. |