Paula Patton
☼ Born on 5 December 1975, in Los Angeles, California, USA
BiographyPaula Patton was born in Los Angeles, California, to Joyce (Vanraden) and Charles Patton. Her father is Black and her mother, who is Caucasian, has German, English and Dutch ancestry. Her family lived across the street from the 20th Century Fox lot when she was growing up and she was a fan of films from her earliest years. Her mother, who also appreciated good films, was a schoolteacher, and her father was a lawyer. Paula claims that as a girl she would escape by "pretending to be someone else" so it was not a surprise that she acted in high school plays at Hamilton Magnet Arts High School. Her favorite role was that of "Abigail" in "The Crucible." However, she went on to study film at the University of Southern California in a summer program, and won a 3-month assignment making documentaries for PBS. This led to her working as a production assistant for TV documentaries, and also for Howie Mandel's talk show. She progressed to actually producing documentary segments for Medical Diaries (2000) airing on Discovery Health Channel. Paula now professes that she liked what she was doing, but her dream remained the same as when she was small so she took acting lessons and shifted gears to become a performer. She was almost immediately successful and, within three years, had played parts in major features, Hitch (2005) and Idlewild (2006) and the female lead in Deja Vu (2006) opposite Denzel Washington.
In the role of actor
Warcraft (12/06/2016)
The orchish Horde goes to war against the human Alliance in Warcraft. With their homeworld Draenor dying, the many orc clans, including the Frostwolves lead by Durotan (Toby Kebbell), seek the help of the shaman Gul’dan (Daniel Wu), who uses the dark magic fel to open the Dark Portal and travel to the world of Azeroth. […]
2 Guns (02/08/2013)
Denzel Washington teams up with Mark Wahlberg in the buddy action-comedy 2 Guns. Washington plays an undercover DEA agent named Robert Trench, who is trying to trying to bring down a Mexican drug lord named Papi Greco (Edward James Olmos). His partner Michael Stigman (Wahlberg) wants to rob a bank Greco have been regularly depositing […]
My Thoughts for Mission: Impossible – Ghost Protocol (The IMAX Experience) (17/12/2011)
In a bit of a unique move, the fourth entry of the Mission: Impossible series was released in IMAX a full five days before it goes into wide release. This is, in my opinion, a good way to get people into IMAX theatres to see the film (there are so many IMAX alternates these days), since […]