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Occupation
  
Actress

Education
  
South High School

Role
  
Actress

Name
  
Patricia Elliott

Years active
  
1968–2011


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Born
  
July 21, 1938 (
1938-07-21
)
Gunnison, Colorado, U.S.

Known for
  
Renee Divine Buchanan (One Life to Live)

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

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Patricia Elliott (July 21, 1938 – December 20, 2015) was an American theatre, film, soap opera, and television actress.

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Early life

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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.

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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

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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

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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.

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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

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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.

Filmography

Actress
2019
Grand-Daddy Day Care as
Terrified Woman
2012
Werewolf: The Beast Among Us (Video) as
Village Woman #1
1988
One Life to Live (TV Series) as
Renée Divine Buchanan / Renee Divine / Renee Buchanan / ...
- From Bobby Socks to Stocking (2010) - Renée Divine Buchanan (uncredited)
- Let's Get (Meta) Physical (2010) - Renée Divine Buchanan
- Merry Christmas, Mr. Laurence (2009) - Renée Divine Buchanan
- Rockin' Around the Crisis Tree (2009) - Renée Divine Buchanan
- Is It So Small a Thing? (2009) - Renée Divine Buchanan
- Ghosts of a Chance (2009) - Renée Divine Buchanan
- There Might Be Blood (2009) - Renée Divine Buchanan
- Pomp & Circumstance (2009) - Renée Divine Buchanan
- Eye of the Needle (2009) - Renée Divine Buchanan
- Won't Get Fooled Again (2009) - Renée Divine Buchanan
- Karma's a Bitch (2009) - Renée Divine Buchanan
- About Last Night (2009) - Renée Divine Buchanan
- Better Off Red (2009) - Renée Divine Buchanan
- Not So Sweet Charity (2009) - Renée Divine Buchanan
- Souls Laid Bear (2009) - Renée Divine Buchanan
- Dads and the T's (2009) - Renée Divine Buchanan
- High School Confidential (2009) - Renée Divine Buchanan
- Tea and Sympathy (2009) - Renée Divine Buchanan
- It's Raining Men (2009) - Renée Divine Buchanan
- First Chants, Second Chances (2008) - Renée Divine Buchanan
- Decent Proposal (2008) - Renée Divine Buchanan
- Buenos Dias! (2008) - Renée Divine Buchanan
- Crank Dat Soldier Boy (2008) - Renée Divine Buchanan
- Keyed Up (2008) - Renée Divine Buchanan
- The Honeymoon's Over (2008) - Renée Divine Buchanan
2008
Beethoven's Big Break (Video) as
Woman with Tiny Dog
2000
101 Ways (the Things a Girl Will Do to Keep Her Volvo) as
Ruth
1998
Richie Rich's Christmas Wish (Video) as
Hazel
1998
Casper Meets Wendy (Video) as
Snotty Woman (as Pat Elliot)
1998
Men in White (TV Movie) as
Girl Scout Leader
1997
Casper: A Spirited Beginning (Video) as
Mortified Teacher
1996
Criminal Hearts (Video) as
Good Samaritan
1988
Kate & Allie (TV Series) as
Sheila
- A Catered Affair (1988) - Sheila
1987
The Ladies (TV Movie) as
Darlene
1987
A Special Friendship (TV Movie) as
Mrs. Davis
1985
Spenser: For Hire (TV Series) as
Vera Canning / Edie James
- I Confess (1987) - Vera Canning
- Discord in a Minor (1985) - Edie James
1985
The 13 Ghosts of Scooby-Doo (TV Series)
- Horror-Scope Scoob (1985) - (voice)
- The Ghouliest Show on Earth (1985) - (voice)
- Coast-to-Ghost (1985) - (voice)
- Scooby in Kwackyland (1985) - (voice)
- It's a Wonderful Scoob (1985) - (voice)
- When You Witch Upon a Star (1985) - (voice)
- A Spooky Little Ghoul Like You (1985) - (voice)
- Ship of Ghouls (1985) - (voice)
- That's Monstertainment (1985) - (voice)
- Reflections in a Ghoulish Eye (1985) - (voice)
- Me and My Shadow Demon (1985) - (voice)
- Scoobra Kadoobra (1985) - (voice)
- To All the Ghouls I've Loved Before (1985) - (voice)
1985
Hill Street Blues (TV Series) as
Patient of Dr. Rose
- Dr. Hoof and Mouth (1985) - Patient of Dr. Rose
1984
The Cartier Affair (TV Movie) as
Margo Houser
1984
Partners in Crime (TV Series) as
Phyllis
- Pilot (1984) - Phyllis
1984
St. Elsewhere (TV Series) as
Ms. Colman
- The Women (1984) - Ms. Colman
1984
Empire (TV Series) as
Renee
- Pilot (1984) - Renee
1982
Nurse (TV Series) as
Ellen Geddis
- Euthanasia (1982) - Ellen Geddis
1982
ABC Afterschool Specials (TV Series) as
Ellen Davis
- Sometimes I Don't Love My Mother (1982) - Ellen Davis
1981
Summer Solstice (TV Movie) as
Emily
1979
Natural Enemies as
Woman on Train
1978
Tartuffe (TV Movie) as
Dorine
1978
Somebody Killed Her Husband as
Helene
1977
The Quinns (TV Movie) as
Rita Quinn O'Neill
1977
Kojak (TV Series) as
Christina
- The Godson (1977) - Christina
1976
The Adams Chronicles (TV Mini Series) as
Minnie Adams
- Chapter XIII: Charles Francis Adams II, Industrialist (1976) - Minnie Adams
- Chapter XII: Henry Adams, Historian (1976) - Minnie Adams
1976
Birch Interval as
Martha
1973
The Man Without a Country (TV Movie) as
Mrs. Graff
1968
The Green Slime as
Nurse
Self
1979
Working in the Theatre (TV Series documentary) as
Self
- Performance (1979) - Self
1973
The 27th Annual Tony Awards (TV Special) as
Self - Winner
Archive Footage
2016
The 70th Annual Tony Awards (TV Special) as
Self - In Memoriam

References

Patricia Elliott Wikipedia