Patricia Idlette

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.

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

Year	Title	Role	Notes
1982	Shocktrauma	Nurse Malcolm	Television film
1983	Between Friends		Television film
1984	Heavenly Bodies	KC
1986	Reckless Disregard	Receptionist	Television film
1987	Hands of a Stranger	Last Rape Victim	Television film
1988	Hostage	Cell Mate	Television film
1989	The Dream Team	Woman at Police Station
1991	Drop Dead Gorgeous	Newscaster	Television film
1992	Last Wish	Hospital Nurse	Television film
1992	Black Death	Gayle	Television film
1992	Survivors	Karen Walker	Television film
1994	Out of Darkness	Policewoman	Television film
1994	Children of the Dark	Checkout Person	Television film
1996	Toe Tags		Television film
1997	Breaking the Surface: The Greg Louganis Story	Social Worker	Television film
1998	Floating Away	Hooker	Television film
2000	Sole Survivor	Mahalia	Television film
2000	Frankie & Hazel	Teacher	Television film
2000	Holiday Heart	Mrs. Walker	Television film
2000	Air Bud 3	Mrs. Brimstone	Direct-to-video
2001	Class Warfare	Lottery Attendant	Television film
2002	The Secret Life of Zoey	Cora	Television film
2003	The Delicate Art of Parking	Female Doctor
2003	Scary Movie 3	Mrs. Meeks
2004	The Goodbye Girl	Improv Troupe	Television film
2004	The Perfect Score	Receptionist
2004	Ginger Snaps 2: Unleashed	Dr. Brookner
2004	Meltdown	911 Operator	Television film
2004	Man in the Mirror: The Michael Jackson Story	Kat	Television film
2004	Deadly Visions	Jasmine	Television film
2005	Bad Girls from Valley High	Woman in Dressing Room
2005	Amber Frey: Witness for the Prosecution	Dispatch Officer #2	Television film
2006	The Ron Clark Story	Devina	Television film
2006	A Little Thing Called Murder	Female inmate	Television film
2006	She's The Man	Science Teacher
2006	Past Tense	Dr. Wagner	Television film
2006	Tempbot		Short film
2008	Chaos Theory	Nurse

Television

Year	Title	Role	Notes
1980	The Littlest Hobo	Beth McLean	Episode: "Licence to Steal"
1985	Comedy Factory	Mavis	Episode: "Harry and the Kids"
1986–1987	Adderly	Reporter, Yvonne	3 episodes
1987	Walt Disney's Wonderful World of Colors	Josie	Episode: "The Liberators"
1987	Amerika	Melanie Blackstone	4 episodes
1987	Alfred Hitchcock Presents	Woman	Episode: "The Specialty of the House"
1988–1989	Street Legal	Crown, Hilary Geisler	2 episodes
1988	The Twilight Zone	Susan	Episode: "Our Selena Is Dying"
1988	Katts and Dog	Deannie Bennet	Episode: "Kids Just Want to Have Fun"
1992	Top Cops	Elderly Lady	Episode: "John Kosek/Richard Voorhees/Doug Edgington/David Miles"
1992	Murder, She Wrote	Desk Person	Episode: "Sugar & Spice, Malice & Vice"
1993	NYPD Blue	Civilian Assistant	Episode: "The Confessions"
1993	South of Sunset	Martha	Episode: "Newspaper Boy"
1997	The Sentinel	Mrs. Russo	Episodes: "Private Eyes"
1997	The X-Files	Desk Clerk	Episode: "Synchrony"
2000–2001	Seven Days	Vonnie, Jasmine	2 episodes
2000	The Outer Limits	Waitress	Episode: "The Grid"
2000	Freedom		Episode: "The Chase"
2002–2003	John Doe	Bureaucracy, No-nonsense Officer	2 episodes
2002	¡Mucha Lucha!	(voice)	Episode: "The Curse of the Masked Toilet/The Mummy with the Golden Mask"
2003	The Dead Zone	Nurse Park	Episode: "Precipitate"
2003–2004	Dead Like Me	Kiffany	21 episodes
2004	Andromeda	Council Member #1	2 episodes
2005–2006	Battlestar Galactica	Sarah Porter	4 episodes
2005	Terminal City	Louise	Episode: "Episode #1.6"
2006	The L Word	Technician	Episode: "Lobsters"
2006	Psych	Desk Sergeant Martha Allen	2 episodes

References

1. "Patricia Idlette" Archived 2016-03-09 at the Wayback Machine . Fort Myers Florida Weekly, July 23, 2008.
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.

External links

• Patricia Idlette at IMDb