Patricia Wettig

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Recent Role:
Holly Harper on Brothers & Sisters
Gender:
Female
Born:
12-4-1951
Birthplace:
Cincinnati Ohio
Patricia Wettig is best known for her role of Nancy Weston on the award winning ABC drama thirtysomething. She won two emmys for her role as a wife and mother battling cancer, while trying to save her marriage, and find her own artistic talent.

Patricia was born in Cincinnati, and was the daughter of a University of Tennessee basketball coach. She started out as a dresser for Shirley MacLaine, and spent 7 years in New York with the Circle Repertory Company.

She met Ken Olin on a train going to Portsmouth NH, 1982, where both of them were going to star in a



More production of "A street car named desire", she as Stella, he as Stanley. She was living with someone, he was engaged to someone else, but they fell in love immediately. They married at her home in Connecticut in 1982. Ken also starred in Thirtysomething. They have two children, Clifford (b 1983) and Roxanne (b 1986).

Patricia's other succeses include a role on St. Elsewhere in 1982, stage and film such as Stephen King's The Langoliers, Kansas and several Television movies. She currently has a guest role in the series ALIAS. Patricia was the psychiatrist questioning Vaughn on "Alias." Still working together, her husband Ken is also involved as "Alias" executive producer.

Patricia also earned a master's degree in playwriting from Smith College in May 2001 and is currently pursuing a career in writing more than in acting

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    Talented but underrated! hide show

    One very talented actress who is very underrated but she is good at what she does best. Showing her range of emotions and range of acting that you are supposed to expect. And maybe beyond but in a good kind of way. She first came to attention as the cancer-stricken wife on Thirtysomething which starred her real-life husband Ken Olin. But he didn't play her husband in the show. Glad that she is back on regular tv on Brothers & Sisters. And that she does really well and glad that she and the other castmates get along really well! Underrated but very talented!

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    Patricia is one of those rare breeds that makes you feel her character and her emotions. She allows you to get inside of her thoughts and her emotions. You forget the actress and consider her real. hide show

    I compare Patricia Wettig to Meryl Streep. She is the Meryl Streep of television. I watched her on "thirtysomething" and actually utilized her performance in my profession working with cancer patients and educating professionals on how to communicate with patients and caregivers dealing with a life threatening illness. I still use these scenarios in my speeches.

    She is fantastic on "Brothers and Sisters" along with the other stars. They compliment each other. I am pleased to see her and her husband working on another project. I also would utilize Ken Olin's role as Michael as one of the more supportive characters of what Nance was going through. I classify him as the silent support.

    Congradulations to both of them and please continue with the first rate TV.
    Edgar Guedry

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    Below and behind the call of duty hide show

    Patricia Wettig is currently best known aong the majority of the population for her role as Vice President in the hit series Prison Break. In the fall, this may cause conflict with her new show that's trying to take off, Brotehrs and Sisters. Don't get me wrong; I think that Wettig is a fine character. Honestly, part of her lack of appeal to me is probably that I don't really like her character/her look in Prison Break. She seems very hard to me. I suppose that either makes her an amazing actress or a very hard woman in general. I don't think that the show would flounder at all without her; I enjoy her storyline, but the Prison Break writers are smart. I'm sure that they could easily find a way to write her off, need be.

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