Patricia Elliott
Patricia Elliott was an American theater, film, soap opera and television actress.
Early life
Elliott was born July 21, 1938, in Gunnison, Colorado to Clyde and Lavon Elliott. She claimed direct descent from President Ulysses S. Grant, John Winthrop and Mary Lyon. She graduated from South High School, Denver.In 1960, Elliott graduated from the University of Colorado and then studied at the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art. She worked at the Cleveland Play House, the Guthrie Theater in Minneapolis and Arena Stage in Washington, D.C., among others, before moving to New York.
Career
Elliott began her career in 1968 in the science fiction film The Green Slime. She later appeared in the films Birch Interval, Somebody Killed Her Husband, and Natural Enemies.In 1973, Elliott appeared in a made-for-TV adaptation of The Man Without a Country. In 1976 she portrayed Minnie Adams in The Adams Chronicles, a thirteen-episode miniseries on PBS. She is best known for her portrayal of Renée Divine Buchanan on the ABC soap opera One Life to Live, a role she played on a recurring basis from 1988 to 2011. She assumed the role from its originator, Phyllis Newman. She guest starred on such television series as Kojak, the ABC Afterschool Special, St. Elsewhere, and Spenser: For Hire.
She won a Tony Award for her performance as Countess Charlotte Malcolm in the original 1973 production of Stephen Sondheim musical A Little Night Music. She played the role of Dorine in the 1977 Circle in the Square revival of Molière's Tartuffe, for which she was nominated for a Drama Desk Award. She reprised this role when the production was restaged for television on PBS in 1978.