Occupation Actress Education South High School Role Actress | Name Patricia Elliott Years active 1968–2011 | |
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Died December 20, 2015, Manhattan, New York City, New York, United States Spouse Christopher Vivien Hawthorne Fay (m. 1960–1962) Awards Tony Award for Best Featured Actress in a Musical, Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Performance Movies and TV shows Tartuffe, Somebody Killed Her Husband, One Life to Live, Beethoven's Big Break, 101 Ways (The Things a Similar People Laurence Guittard, Glynis Johns, Hermione Gingold, Stephen Sondheim, Joyce Ebert | ||
one life to live actress patricia elliott dies age 77
Patricia Elliott (July 21, 1938 – December 20, 2015) was an American theatre, film, soap opera, and television actress.
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- one life to live actress patricia elliott dies age 77
- One Life to Live Patricia Elliotts Final Appearance
- Early life
- Film
- Television
- Theatre
- Personal life
- Death
- Filmography
- References
One Life to Live: Patricia Elliott's Final Appearance
Early life
Elliott was born July 21, 1938 in Gunnison, Colorado to Clyde and Lavon (née Gibson) Elliott. She claimed direct descent from President Ulysses S. Grant, John Winthrop (first governor of Massachusetts) and Mary Lyon (founder of what would become Mount Holyoke College). She graduated from South High School, Denver.
In 1960, Elliott graduated from the University of Colorado and then went on to study at the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art. She returned to work at the Cleveland Play House, the Guthrie Theater in Minneapolis and Arena Stage in Washington, D.C., among others before moving to New York.
Film
Elliott began her career in 1968 with the science fiction film The Green Slime. She would go on to appear in Birch Interval (1976), the comedy/mystery film Somebody Killed Her Husband (1978), and Natural Enemies (1979).
Television
With many appearances on television, Elliott is best known having replaced actress Phyllis Newman as longtime portrayal of fictional character Renée Divine Buchanan on the ABC soap opera One Life to Live, a role she played in extended stints off-and-on during every year between 1988 and 2011.
In 1973 Elliott appeared in an adaptation of The Man Without a Country and in 1976 portrayed Minnie Adams in The Adams Chronicles, a thirteen-episode miniseries on PBS. In 1978, she appeared in the Made-for-TV-Movie Tartuffe. She guest starred on such television series as Kojak, the ABC Afterschool Special, St. Elsewhere, and Spenser: For Hire.
Theatre
Elliott won a Tony for her performance as Countess Charlotte Malcolm in the Stephen Sondheim musical A Little Night Music. She played the role of Dorine in the 1977 Tony-nominated Circle in the Square revival of Molière's Tartuffe for which she was nominated for a Drama Desk Award. She reprised her role when the production was restaged for television on PBS in 1978.
Personal life
Elliot married Christopher V H Fay on September 10, 1960 in Clinton, CT. They were divorced.
Elliot was briefly married to Peter Heath.
Death
Elliot died in Manhattan on December 20, 2015, aged 77. Broadway.com reports that she died of leiomyosarcoma, a rare cancer. Besides her niece, Sally Fay, she was survived by an aunt, Claudine Walker, and several cousins.