Name
Patricia Charbonneau
Known For
Acting
Birthday
1959-04-19 (67 years old)
Place of Birth
Valley Stream, Long Island, New York, USA
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.
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- 1985 Desert Hearts as Cay Rivvers
- 1990 Brain Dead as Dana Martin
- 2008 100 Feet as Frances
- 1988 Call Me as Anna
- 1990 RoboCop 2 as Lab Assistant (uncredited)
- 2021 Skipping Stones as Mrs. Travers
- 1999 One Special Night as Lori
- 1999 The Arrangement as Marion Markel
- 2004 The Loss of Nameless Things as Self
- 1988 Disaster at Silo 7 as Kathy Fitzgerald
- 1991 The Owl as Danny Santerre
- 1986 C.A.T. Squad as Nikki Blake
- 1989 Desperado: Badlands Justice as Emily Harris
- 1991 Captive as Karen
- 1996 Portraits of a Killer as Carolyn Price
- 1998 Kiss the Sky as Franny
- 1986 Manhunter as Mrs. Sherman
- 2017 Women in Love: Desert Hearts as Self
- 1988 Shakedown as Susan Cantrell
- 1991 K2 as Jacki
- 1999 She's All That as Lois Siler
- 1998 Blade Squad
- 1985 Spenser: For Hire ( 1 episode )
- 1986 Matlock ( 1 episode ) as Madeline 'Maddy' Medford
- 1993 seaQuest DSV ( 2 episodes ) as Elaine Morse
- 1989 Tales from the Crypt ( 1 episode ) as Ellen Renfield
- 1999 Law & Order: Special Victims Unit ( 1 episode ) as Paige Beddels
- 1993 Walker, Texas Ranger ( 1 episode ) as Robin Henley
- 1991 The Commish ( 1 episode )
- 1986 Crime Story ( 28 episodes ) as Inger Thorson
- 1996 Kindred: The Embraced ( 1 episode )
- 1985 The Equalizer ( 1 episode ) as Sally Stevens
- 1987 Wiseguy ( 5 episodes )
- 1993 Diagnosis: Murder ( 1 episode ) as Fed. Marshal Monica Shattuck
- 1994 Viper ( 1 episode ) as Ella Keats
- 1990 Law & Order ( 1 episode ) as Janet Naiman
- 2001 Law & Order: Criminal Intent ( 1 episode ) as Sydney Markham
- 1997 Beyond Belief: Fact or Fiction ( 1 episode ) as Woman (segment "Bright Light")
- 1984 Murder, She Wrote ( 1 episode ) as Diana Sterling
- 1992 Renegade ( 1 episode ) as Janet
- 1996 Profiler ( 1 episode ) as Barbara Chapin
- 1989 Booker ( 1 episode ) as Clara
