Paula Patton
Paula Patton was born in Los Angeles,
California, to Joyce (Vanraden) and Charles Patton. Her father is African
American, while her mother is caucasian and is of German, English and Dutch
ancestry. Her family lived right across from the 20th Century Fox lot when she
was growing old and she was a lover of movies in her early days. Her mom was a
teacher and her father worked as an attorney. Paula states that as young, she
would try to escape from the world by "pretending to pretend to be someone
else" which is why it came as an unsurprising that she performed in high
school plays at Hamilton Magnet Arts High School. Her favorite role was the one
of Abigail in "The Crucible". She pursued her studies at the
University of Southern California, where she completed a program for summers in
film. In that time, she was awarded a 3-month project to create documentaries
for PBS. The result was that she was hired as a production assistant for
documentary films on TV as well as Howie Mandel’s talk show. Her career progressed
to producing documentary segments for Medical Diaries (2000) airing on
Discovery Health Channel. Paula says she enjoys doing what she loves, but she
has a longing to be a performer. She was almost instantly successful and was
featured in major roles in Hitch (2005), Idlewild (2006) and also the lead
female character in Deja Vu (2006) opposite Denzel.
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