Grace Van Patten

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Grace Van Patten
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Born
Grace Van Patten

(1996-11-21) November 21, 1996 (age 27) [1]
New York City, U.S.
OccupationActress
Years active2013–present
Parent
Relatives Dick Van Patten (uncle)
Joyce Van Patten (aunt)
Vincent Van Patten (cousin)
Nels Van Patten (cousin)
Talia Balsam (cousin)

Grace Van Patten (born November 21, 1996) [1] is an American actress. She has appeared in two films distributed by Netflix: Tramps (2016) and The Meyerowitz Stories (2017), and in Hulu's miniseries Nine Perfect Strangers (2021) and Tell Me Lies (2022). She is the daughter of director Timothy Van Patten and niece of actors Joyce Van Patten and Dick Van Patten.

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Early life

Van Patten grew up in Tribeca, New York City, and attended Fiorello H. LaGuardia High School. She is the eldest of three daughters of director and producer Timothy Van Patten. She is the niece of comic actor Dick Van Patten, [2] Her cousin is actress Talia Balsam, who is the daughter of Joyce Van Patten.

Career

At the age of 8, Van Patten's first role was on the crime drama television series The Sopranos , for which her father directed. He got her the audition, and she portrayed Ally, the daughter of a gangster Eugene Pontecorvo. [3] She was in a 2014 episode of another series directed by her father, Boardwalk Empire . [4] She deferred admission to the University of Southern California, instead choosing to audition in New York City and take community college classes in psychology and philosophy. She postponed the courses, however, when she got a job during the school year.

Van Patten played Ellie in her first feature film, the Netflix romantic comedy Tramps , [5] which premiered at the 2016 Toronto International Film Festival. [3] She had a small part in crime drama Stealing Cars and starred in the 2017 horror thriller Central Park. [4] [6] In the comedy-drama film The Meyerowitz Stories (New and Selected) , Van Patten portrayed Eliza, a Bard College film student and the daughter of Adam Sandler's character, Danny. In the film, directed by Noah Baumbach and screened at the 2017 Cannes Film Festival, Eliza makes sexually explicit shorts starring herself. [3]

In her theater debut, Van Patten performed in The New Group's Off-Broadway play The Whirligig by Hamish Linklater alongside Zosia Mamet at the Pershing Square Signature Center. [3] [5] [7] Van Patten acted in the 2017 romantic comedy The Wilde Wedding with Glenn Close, John Malkovich, Patrick Stewart, and Minnie Driver. [5] Principal photography of Dolly Wells' Good Posture, starring Van Patten and Emily Mortimer, finished in Brooklyn in late December 2017. [8]

She appeared in David Robert Mitchell's crime noir Under the Silver Lake with Mamet, Riley Keough, and Andrew Garfield. [6] [9] Van Patten was named one of Variety magazine's "10 Actors to Watch" in 2017. [4] In the fall of 2018, she appeared as Joan of Arc opposite Glenn Close in The Public Theater's production of Mother of the Maid. [10] She will also star opposite Jovan Adepo in Kerem Sanga's drama The Violent Heart . [11]

Acting credits

Film

YearTitleRoleDirector(s)NotesRef.
2015 Stealing Cars Maggie WyattBradley Kaplan [12]
2016 Tramps Ellie Adam Leon [13]
2017 Central Park LeylaJustin Reinsilber [9]
2017 The Meyerowitz Stories (New and Selected) Eliza Meyerowitz Noah Baumbach Boston Society of Film Critics Award for Best Ensemble [3]
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2017 The Wilde Wedding Mackenzie Darling Damian Harris [15]
2018 Under the Silver Lake Balloon girl David Robert Mitchell [6]
2019 Good Posture Lilian Dolly Wells [8]
2020 The Violent Heart CassieKerem Sanga [11]
2021 Mayday AnaKaren Cinorre [16]

Television

YearTitleRoleChannelNotesRef.
2006 The Sopranos Ally Pontecorvo HBO 2 episodes: "Members Only" and "Join the Club"
2013 Law & Order: Special Victims Unit Jodie Lanier NBC Episode: "October Surprise"
2014 Boardwalk Empire Ruth Lindsay HBO Episode: "Cuanto"
2018 Maniac Olivia Meadows Netflix
2021 Nine Perfect Strangers Zoe Hulu Miniseries
2022 Tell Me Lies Lucy Albright Hulu

Stage

YearProductionTheaterRoleNotesRef.
2017The Whirligig Pershing Square Signature Center JulieMay 21 – June 18 [17]

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