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Patricia Clarkson is in distress. She's standing in the kitchen, hands clasped, her blue-green eyes opened wide. She has asked this question several times already, as well as offered scones, volunteered to go get sandwiches and salads, and suggested that she brew coffee or make green tea. It's a hospitality fixation that the New Orleans native attributes to her "Southern thing" -- never mind that she's been living in New York for more than two decades.
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Patricia Clarkson should be crowned Queen of Sundance 2003. With roles in four films in the festival, the title is unquestionably hers. "Four is a little crazy," Clarkson says, sitting on a sunny balcony on lower Main Street and looking, in dark sunglasses, every bit as young as the starlets -- like Christina Ricci at last year's fest -- who have formerly been the belles of Sundance's ball. "When I realized that I had three films in competition and one in World Cinema, I thought, 'Oh my God, it's unbelievable.' I thought, 'OK, vitamins. B-12!'" Vitamins or not, she is happy to be here. "It's been glorious," she continues.
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After nearly twenty years of steady work and solid performances, actress Patricia Clarkson gained widespread critical notice in 2003 for her performances in the films The Station Agent and Pieces of April. A graduate of Fordham University and the Yale School of Drama, Clarkson began her acting career on the New York stage. In the mid-1980s she began working in television, and within a couple of years she had earned roles in big-budget Hollywood movies like The Untouchables (1987, starring Kevin Costner) and The Dead Pool (1988, starring Clint Eastwood). During the 1990s she appeared mostly in TV movies and low-budget independent films, earning a reputation as an unappreciated serious actress. After she turned 40, Clarkson's career took off -- she has since won two Emmys for guest appearances on TV's Six Feet Under (in 2002 and 2006), and was nominated for an Oscar for playing Katie Holmes's mother in Pieces of April. Combining the quiet intensity of Joan Allen with the mature sex appeal of Helen Mirren, Clarkson is both sturdy supporting player and sexy leading lady.
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Born and raised in New Orleans, Patricia Clarkson studied drama at Yale and can currently be seen in the films The Station Agent and Pieces of April. On Broadway, she was seen in The House of Blue Leaves and Eastern Standard. Other stage roles have included The Ride Down Mount Morgan at Williamstown Theatre Festival and What the Butler Saw at Yale Rep. She stayed on the East Coast working in theater productions before her 1987 feature film debut in The Untouchables. She gained attention for her role as the drug-addicted Greta in the independent film High Art. Also working in television, she had a recurring role on Frasier, and 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.
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Patricia Clarkson was born in New Orleans, LA, on December 29, 1959. She debuted on television in a guest spot on Spenser for Hire in 1985. Since then she has guest-starred in several series, including a recurring role on Frasier, and on Murder One, and a role that won her an Emmy -- that of "Sarah O'Conner" in Six Feet Under.
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Two-time Emmy Award winner Patricia Clarkson has been named the 2007 celebrity monarch for the Krewe Of Orpheus parade in New Orleans, Louisiana. A celebrity is chosen each year to lead the parade - founded by Harry Connick Jr. - and past monarchs have included Whoopi Goldberg, Glenn Close, Stevie Wonder, Toby Keith and James Brown.
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