Patricia Charbonneau

Born: 1959-04-19

Patricia Charbonneau (born April 19, 1959) is an American actress, probably best known for playing the part of Cay Rivvers in Desert Hearts, her first film role. Charbonneau was born in Valley Stream, New York on Long Island. She graduated in 1977 from Valley Stream Central High School, which she had attended with fellow actors Steve Buscemi and Steve Hytner, as well as writer Ed Renehan. She later attended Boston University. Charbonneau began on the New York stage in a production of Revengers...A Tragedea, at Playwrights Horizons. She then went to Louisville, Kentucky, where she was a member of the Actors Theatre of Louisville. While there she originated the role of Lea in My Sister in this House, a part that she played off-Broadway as well. Charbonneau had not worked in films at all when Donna Deitch cast her in Desert Hearts in 1985. In the following year she appeared in Michael Mann's Manhunter (based on the novel Red Dragon) and then played Anna, the lead, in Call Me (1988), which also featured fellow Valley Streamer Steve Buscemi. Her television appearances have included Crime Story, The Equalizer, Wiseguy, Murder She Wrote, Matlock, and Law & Order: Criminal Intent. She then stopped acting but recently came out of retirement to film a role in the upcoming thriller 100 Feet starring Famke Janssen. In 1995, she featured with Michael Dorn in the Legend Entertainment adventure game Mission Critical. Since March 2007, Charbonneau has been a faculty member of the Hudson Valley Academy of Performing Arts in West Taghkanic, New York, where she teaches an acting workshop for children and teens. Patricia is sister to novelist Eileen Charbonneau. Description above from the Wikipedia article Patricia Charbonneau, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia


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as Lab Assistant (uncredited)
Released: 1990-06-22

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She's All That

as Lois Siler
Released: 1999-01-29

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Desert Hearts

as Cay Rivvers
Released: 1985-10-01

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Brain Dead

as Dana Martin
Released: 1990-01-16

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as Kathy Fitzgerald
Released: 1988-11-27

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100 Feet

as Frances
Released: 2008-07-22

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Shakedown

as Susan Cantrell
Released: 1988-05-06

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as Jacki
Released: 1991-10-10

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Call Me

as Anna
Released: 1988-05-20

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One Special Night

as Lori
Released: 1999-11-28

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Captive

as Karen
Released: 1991-10-11

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Portraits of a Killer

as Carolyn Price
Released: 1996-05-21

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as Self
Released: 2004-03-07

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as Mrs. Travers
Released: 2021-11-02

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as Emily Harris
Released: 1989-12-17

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as Franny
Released: 1998-10-26

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as Danny Santerre
Released: 1991-08-03

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as Nikki Blake
Released: 1986-07-27

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The Arrangement

as Marion Markel
Released: 1999-01-01

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as Mrs. Sherman
Released: 1986-08-14

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Women in Love: Helen Shaver and Patricia Charbonneau on Desert Hearts

as Self
Released: 2017-11-14

DESERT HEARTS depended on the connection between its two lead actors, Patricia Charbonneau and...

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Law & Order: Special Victims Unit

as Paige Beddels
First aired: 1999-09-20

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Law & Order

as Janet Naiman
First aired: 1990-09-13

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Law & Order: Criminal Intent

as Sydney Markham
First aired: 2001-09-30

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The Equalizer

as Sally Stevens
First aired: 1985-09-18

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Diagnosis: Murder

as Fed. Marshal Monica Shattuck
First aired: 1993-10-29

Dr. Mark Sloan is a good-natured, offbeat physician who is called upon to solve murders.

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Beyond Belief: Fact or Fiction

as Woman (segment "Bright Light")
First aired: 1997-05-25

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Murder, She Wrote

as Diana Sterling
First aired: 1984-09-30

An unassuming mystery writer turned sleuth uses her professional insight to help solve real-life...

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Tales from the Crypt

as Ellen Renfield
First aired: 1989-06-10

Cadaverous scream legend the Crypt Keeper is your macabre host for these forays of fright and...

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Renegade

as Janet
First aired: 1992-09-19

Framed for murder, Detective Reno Raines becomes a fugitive bounty hunter who fights crime while...

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Matlock

as uncredited
First aired: 1986-03-03

Matlock is an American television legal drama, starring Andy Griffith in the title role of...

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Walker, Texas Ranger

as Robin Henley
First aired: 1993-04-21

Modern-day Texas Ranger, Cordell Walker's independent crime-solving methods have their roots in...

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The Commish

as uncredited
First aired: 1991-09-28

Tony Scali is a former Brooklyn cop now the Police Commissioner of a small upstate city. But for...

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Viper

as Ella Keats
First aired: 1994-01-02

Viper is an action-adventure TV series about a special task force set up by the federal...

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Crime Story

as Inger Thorson
First aired: 1986-09-19

The hard-boiled saga of hair-trigger cop Lieutenant Mike Torello and his obsessive pursuit of...

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Wiseguy

as uncredited
First aired: 1987-09-16

Vinnie Terranova does time in a New Jersey penitentiary to set up his undercover role as an...

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as Elaine Morse
First aired: 1993-09-12

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Spenser: For Hire

as uncredited
First aired: 1985-09-20

Mystery and suspense series based on Robert Parker's "Spenser" novels. Spenser, a private...

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Kindred: The Embraced

as uncredited
First aired: 1996-04-02

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