Paula Patton
Paula Patton is the daughter of Joyce
(Vanraden), Patton, and Charles Patton. Her father is African American and her
mother is caucasian. She has German, English, Dutch and English heritage. While
growing up in the area, her family lived close to the 20th Century Fox lot. She
was a fervent film fan from her childhood. Her mom was a teacher while her
father was an attorney. Paula claimed that she tried to escape when she was a
young girl through "pretending" to appear to be someone different from
herself. So it's not a surprise that she participated in Hamilton Magnet Arts
High School performances. Her favorite character was that of
"Abigail" in "The Crucible". In the end, she chose to learn
film at the University of Southern California in the summer program and
received a three-month contract to create documentary films for PBS. The result
was that she began working as a production assistant in TV documentariesand for
Howie Mandel's talk show. She progressed to actually producing documentaries
for Medical Diaries (2000) airing on Discovery Health Channel. Paula declares
she loves what she's doing, but her ambition was the same. She took acting
lessons and changed gears to become a performer. She was almost immediately
successful performing major roles in Hitch (2005), Idlewild (2006), and also
the lead female role in Deja Vu (2006) opposite Denzel.
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