Paula Patton

Paula Patton Actress - Born December 5, 1975 in Los Angeles, California, USA

Birth Name Paula Maxine Patton

Height 5' 7¼" (1.71 m)

Mini Bio (1) Paula Patton was born in Los Angeles, California, to Joyce (Vanraden) and Charles Patton. Her father is African-American 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.

- IMDb Mini Biography By: Brian Greenhalgh

Spouse (1) Robin Thicke (11 June 2005 - 14 April 2015) divorced 1 child M1. Julian Fuego Thicke (6 April 2010)

Graduate of the Hamilton Magnet Arts High School in Los Angeles. Also attended the University of California at Berkeley and University of Southern California.

Featured on the cover of husband Robin Thicke's first album, "A Beautiful World".

Shot and directed two Super-8 dramatic shorts and has attended the University of Southern California's film school summer program.

Ex-daughter-in-law of Alan Thicke and Gloria Loring.

Ex-sister-in-law of Brennan Thicke.

Singer Robin Thicke wrote his 2006 song "Lost Without U" for her.

Dated Robin Thicke for 14 years before marrying. They met when she was 15 and he was 14 at a teen club in Los Angeles.

Ex-stepdaughter-in-law of Tanya Callau and René Lagler.

Ex-niece-in-law of Todd Thicke.

Provided additional vocals for Usher Raymond's multi-platinum album, "Confessions", on the song, "Can U Handle It?".

Her father is African-American. Her mother is caucasian, and has German, English, and a small amount of Dutch, ancestry.

Has played the love interest of Denzel Washington in two films - Deja Vu (2006) and 2 Guns (2013).

Returned to work 3 months after giving birth to her son Julian in order to begin filming Jumping the Broom (2011).

Was 4 months pregnant with son Julian when she completed filming on Just Wright (2010).

Gave birth to her 1st child at age 34, a son Julian Fuego Thicke on April 6, 2010. Child's father is her now ex-husband, Robin Thicke.

Ranked #48 on Maxim's "Hot 100" of 2014 list.

(October 3, 2014) Filed for divorce from her husband of 9 years Robin Thicke following an 8-month-long separation.

Spokesperson for the "Ellen Tracy" fashion brand.

Making African American films are hard in Hollywood. We need to rely on a support network and bring more cohesion to different filmmakers, actors, producers etc. It's a very difficult business. There aren't a lot of Africans Americans or people of color in high positions in Hollywood that we can green-light films.

A movie is painting, it's photography, it's literature - because you have to have the screenplay - it's music. Put a different soundtrack to a comedy and it's a tragedy. A movie combines all those forms and forces you to pay attention for two hours with a group of people.

The older I get, the more I accept and appreciate myself.

Sometimes I do yoga, sometimes it's kickboxing, sometimes it's weight training, sometimes it's Pilates.

If you're an actress and even one person knows your name, you're lucky.

If you have the capacity to love, you have the capacity to love anyone.

I'm black because that's the way the world sees me.

I try not to have too many opinions; I just marvel at the world we live in.

I think the age we're living in is starting to get scary.

I love cola.

First off let me say, I've wanted to be an actress since I was a little girl.

Becoming a mother is the best thing that's happened to me.

As a little girl I always dreamed of having a cosmetics contract, which was the cherry on top of 'making it' in my opinion.

Paula Patton Actress - Born 5 Dec 1975 - Even though bright-eyed actress Paula Patton began performing as a little girl, putting plays in her own back yard, the shy young woman didn't realize she wanted a career onscreen for many years to come. In high school, she became involved in a PBS series that took young, aspiring filmmakers on a trip across the country to work on their own documentaries, and when Patton graduated high school, she continued to pursue her interest in working behind the camera by enrolling the film school at the University of Southern California. After graduation, she worked as a production assistant, nurturing her goal of producing her own movie, but something felt missing. Finally, Patton realized that her passion was to be on the other side of the camera, so she enrolled in acting classes and strove toward her new goal in full force.

Within a few years, Patton had landed a small role in Will Smith's 2005 comedy Hitch. The next year, she auditioned for a strange and exciting project by music-video director and first time filmmaker Bryan Barber starring Andre 3000 from the hip-hop group OutKast. The movie was called Idlewild, and the super-stylized comedy/crime drama/musical was set in the Prohibition-era American South. Patton's fresh new face was exactly what the unique project needed, and she was cast in the role of Angel Davenport, the female lead. Though the film wasn't geared toward the mainstream, it was a cult success among audiences and critics who appreciated its quirky style.

Patton's star continued to rise as later that same year she was cast in another substantial role, this time in a much more high-profile movie. As the damsel Denzel Washington must travel through time to save in the Tony Scott action thriller Déjà Vu, Patton's sweet but solid force onscreen was lauded, even by critics who bashed the movie for being overly serious. For her next project, the actress signed on to star opposite Kiefer Sutherland in the horror movie Mirrors, slated for release in 2007. She appeared in the 2008 political comedy Swing Vote, and the basketball themed romantic comedy Just Wright in 2010. She had her most high-profile success as a member of the team Ethan Hunt puts together in Mission Impossible - Ghost Protocol. She next appeared in the comedies Jumping the Broom (2011), Baggage Claim (2013) and About Last Night (2014).

Patton was married to R&B singer/songwriter Robin Thicke in 2005. She appears on the cover of his 2003 album A Beautiful World and in a number of his music videos. The couple officially divorced in 2015.

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