Patricia Idlette

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Patricia Idlette is an American actress known for her role as Kiffany in Showtime's Dead Like Me . She also appeared in four episodes of Battlestar Galactica as politician Sarah Porter, and as Melanie Blackstone in the miniseries Amerika . Idlette portrayed Katherine Jackson, mother of Michael Jackson, in the 2004 biopic Man in the Mirror: The Michael Jackson Story . She appeared as Brenda's mother in Scary Movie 3 in 2003.

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Originally from Miami, Florida, [1] she trained as an actress in Florida and Michigan. [2] She moved to Canada to join the repertory company of the Stratford Festival, [2] acting in productions of A Midsummer Night's Dream , Antony and Cleopatra , The Winter's Tale , The Merchant of Venice , As You Like It and Medea . [1] She remained based in Canada for many years, acting on stage in Toronto and Vancouver and appearing as a guest actor in television series such as Street Legal , The Littlest Hobo , Adderly , Katts and Dog and The X-Files .

She garnered a Dora Mavor Moore Award nomination for Best Performance by a Female in a Featured Role for her performance in Susan G. Cole's play A Fertile Imagination. [3]

She moved back to Florida in the early 2000s. [1]

Filmography

Film

YearTitleRoleNotes
1982 Shocktrauma Nurse MalcolmTelevision film
1983 Between Friends Television film
1984 Heavenly Bodies KC
1986 Reckless Disregard ReceptionistTelevision film
1987Hands of a StrangerLast Rape VictimTelevision film
1988HostageCell MateTelevision film
1989 The Dream Team Woman at Police Station
1991Drop Dead GorgeousNewscasterTelevision film
1992Last WishHospital NurseTelevision film
1992 Black Death GayleTelevision film
1992SurvivorsKaren WalkerTelevision film
1994 Out of Darkness PolicewomanTelevision film
1994Children of the DarkCheckout PersonTelevision film
1996Toe TagsTelevision film
1997 Breaking the Surface: The Greg Louganis Story Social WorkerTelevision film
1998Floating AwayHookerTelevision film
2000 Sole Survivor MahaliaTelevision film
2000Frankie & HazelTeacherTelevision film
2000 Holiday Heart Mrs. WalkerTelevision film
2000 Air Bud 3 Mrs. BrimstoneDirect-to-video
2001 Class Warfare Lottery AttendantTelevision film
2002 The Secret Life of Zoey CoraTelevision film
2003 The Delicate Art of Parking Female Doctor
2003 Scary Movie 3 Mrs. Meeks
2004 The Goodbye Girl Improv TroupeTelevision film
2004 The Perfect Score Receptionist
2004 Ginger Snaps 2: Unleashed Dr. Brookner
2004 Meltdown 911 OperatorTelevision film
2004 Man in the Mirror: The Michael Jackson Story Kat Television film
2004 Deadly Visions JasmineTelevision film
2005 Bad Girls from Valley High Woman in Dressing Room
2005Amber Frey: Witness for the ProsecutionDispatch Officer #2Television film
2006 The Ron Clark Story DevinaTelevision film
2006 A Little Thing Called Murder Female inmateTelevision film
2006 She's The Man Science Teacher
2006Past TenseDr. WagnerTelevision film
2006TempbotShort film
2008 Chaos Theory Nurse

Television

YearTitleRoleNotes
1980 The Littlest Hobo Beth McLeanEpisode: "Licence to Steal"
1985Comedy FactoryMavisEpisode: "Harry and the Kids"
1986–1987 Adderly Reporter, Yvonne3 episodes
1987 Walt Disney's Wonderful World of Colors JosieEpisode: "The Liberators"
1987 Amerika Melanie Blackstone4 episodes
1987 Alfred Hitchcock Presents WomanEpisode: "The Specialty of the House"
1988–1989 Street Legal Crown, Hilary Geisler2 episodes
1988 The Twilight Zone SusanEpisode: "Our Selena Is Dying"
1988 Katts and Dog Deannie BennetEpisode: "Kids Just Want to Have Fun"
1992 Top Cops Elderly LadyEpisode: "John Kosek/Richard Voorhees/Doug Edgington/David Miles"
1992 Murder, She Wrote Desk PersonEpisode: "Sugar & Spice, Malice & Vice"
1993 NYPD Blue Civilian AssistantEpisode: "The Confessions"
1993 South of Sunset MarthaEpisode: "Newspaper Boy"
1997 The Sentinel Mrs. RussoEpisodes: "Private Eyes"
1997 The X-Files Desk ClerkEpisode: "Synchrony"
2000–2001 Seven Days Vonnie, Jasmine2 episodes
2000 The Outer Limits WaitressEpisode: "The Grid"
2000 Freedom Episode: "The Chase"
2002–2003 John Doe Bureaucracy, No-nonsense Officer2 episodes
2002 ¡Mucha Lucha! (voice)Episode: "The Curse of the Masked Toilet/The Mummy with the Golden Mask"
2003 The Dead Zone Nurse ParkEpisode: "Precipitate"
2003–2004 Dead Like Me Kiffany21 episodes
2004 Andromeda Council Member #12 episodes
2005–2006 Battlestar Galactica Sarah Porter4 episodes
2005 Terminal City LouiseEpisode: "Episode #1.6"
2006 The L Word TechnicianEpisode: "Lobsters"
2006 Psych Desk Sergeant Martha Allen2 episodes

References

  1. 1 2 3 "Patricia Idlette" Archived 2016-03-09 at the Wayback Machine . Fort Myers Florida Weekly, July 23, 2008.
  2. 1 2 "Stages of Black and White: Should directors cast by color or simply cast the best for the role?". The Globe and Mail , July 11, 1987.
  3. "That Scatterbrain Booky and Lilies pace Dora race: Each production picks up eight nominations". The Globe and Mail , May 15, 1991.