Patricia Charbonneau
Born: 1959-04-19 in Valley Stream, Long Island, New York, USA
Known For: Acting
Biography
Patricia Charbonneau (born April 19, 1959) is an American actress, probably best known for playing the part of Cay Rivvers in Desert Hearts, her first film role. Charbonneau was born in Valley Stream, New York on Long Island. She graduated in 1977 from Valley Stream Central High School, which she had attended with fellow actors Steve Buscemi and Steve Hytner, as well as writer Ed Renehan. She later attended Boston University. Charbonneau began on the New York stage in a production of Revengers...A Tragedea, at Playwrights Horizons. She then went to Louisville, Kentucky, where she was a member of the Actors Theatre of Louisville. While there she originated the role of Lea in My Sister in this House, a part that she played off-Broadway as well. Charbonneau had not worked in films at all when Donna Deitch cast her in Desert Hearts in 1985. In the following year she appeared in Michael Mann's Manhunter (based on the novel Red Dragon) and then played Anna, the lead, in Call Me (1988), which also featured fellow Valley Streamer Steve Buscemi. Her television appearances have included Crime Story, The Equalizer, Wiseguy, Murder She Wrote, Matlock, and Law & Order: Criminal Intent. She then stopped acting but recently came out of retirement to film a role in the upcoming thriller 100 Feet starring Famke Janssen. In 1995, she featured with Michael Dorn in the Legend Entertainment adventure game Mission Critical. Since March 2007, Charbonneau has been a faculty member of the Hudson Valley Academy of Performing Arts in West Taghkanic, New York, where she teaches an acting workshop for children and teens. Patricia is sister to novelist Eileen Charbonneau. Description above from the Wikipedia article Patricia Charbonneau, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia
Filmography
2021
- Skipping Stones as Mrs. Travers
2017
- Women in Love: Desert Hearts as Self
2008
- 100 Feet as Frances
2004
- The Loss of Nameless Things as Self
2001
- Law & Order: Criminal Intent as Sydney Markham
1999
- Law & Order: Special Victims Unit as Paige Beddels
- She's All That as Lois Siler
- One Special Night as Lori
- The Arrangement as Marion Markel
1998
- Kiss the Sky as Franny
- Blade Squad
1997
- Beyond Belief: Fact or Fiction as Woman (segment "Bright Light")
1996
- Profiler as Barbara Chapin
- Kindred: The Embraced
- Portraits of a Killer as Carolyn Price
1994
- Viper as Ella Keats
1993
- Diagnosis: Murder as Fed. Marshal Monica Shattuck
- Walker, Texas Ranger as Robin Henley
- seaQuest DSV as Elaine Morse
1992
- Renegade as Janet
1991
- The Commish
- K2 as Jacki
- Captive as Karen
- The Owl as Danny Santerre
1990
- Law & Order as Janet Naiman
- RoboCop 2 as Lab Assistant (uncredited)
- Brain Dead as Dana Martin
1989
- Tales from the Crypt as Ellen Renfield
- Booker as Clara
- Desperado: Badlands Justice as Emily Harris
1988
- Shakedown as Susan Cantrell
- Call Me as Anna
- Disaster at Silo 7 as Kathy Fitzgerald
1987
1986
- Matlock as Madeline 'Maddy' Medford
- Crime Story as Inger Thorson
- C.A.T. Squad as Nikki Blake
- Manhunter as Mrs. Sherman
1985
- The Equalizer as Sally Stevens
- Spenser: For Hire
- Desert Hearts as Cay Rivvers
1984
- Murder, She Wrote as Diana Sterling