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Patricia Idlette profile
Actor

Patricia Idlette

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Acting credits

34

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Large and steady acting portfolio.

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0.9

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Movies: 19Series: 15

TMDB ID: 64918

IMDb ID: nm0406896

Known for: Acting

Born: October 1, 1958

Age: 67

Place of birth: Miami, Florida, US

Gender: Female

Adult content flag: No

Career span: 1982 - 2007

Years active: 26

Average TMDB rating: 6.89

Wikidata: Q3897700

Biography

Patricia Idlette is an American actress known for her role as Kiffany in Showtime's Dead Like Me. She also appeared in four episodes of Battlestar Galactica as politician Sarah Porter, and as Melanie Blackstone in the miniseries Amerika. Idlette portrayed Katherine Jackson, mother of Michael Jackson, in the 2004 biopic Man in the Mirror: The Michael Jackson Story. She appeared as Brenda's mother in Scary Movie 3 in 2003. Originally from Miami, Florida, she trained as an actress in Florida and Michigan. She moved to Canada to join the repertory company of the Stratford Festival, acting in productions of A Midsummer Night's Dream, Antony and Cleopatra, The Winter's Tale, The Merchant of Venice, As You Like It and Medea. She remained based in Canada for many years, acting on stage in Toronto and Vancouver and appearing as a guest actor in television series such as Street Legal, The Littlest Hobo, Adderly, Katts and Dog and The X-Files. She garnered a Dora Mavor Moore Award nomination for Best Performance by a Female in a Featured Role for her performance in Susan G. Cole's play A Fertile Imagination.

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