Patricia Medina
Acting
Biography
Patricia Paz María Medina(19 July 1919-April 28, 2012) was an English actress, born in Liverpool, England to a Spanish father (Ramón Medina Nebot from Canary Islands) and English mother. She began acting as a teenager in the late 1930s. She worked her way up to leading roles in the mid-1940s, where upon she left for Hollywood. In 1950's Fortunes of Captain Blood, she teamed with British actor Louis Hayward. They subsequently appeared together in 1951's The Lady and the Bandit, Lady in the Iron Mask, and Captain Pirate from 1952. Medina was often typecast in period melodramas such as The Black Knight. Two of her films were William Witney's Stranger at My Door and Orson Welles' Mr. Arkadin, based on episodes of the radio series The Adventures of Harry Lime, itself derived from The Third Man film. Medina married British actor Richard Greene on 24 December 1941, in St. James's Church, Spanish Place, London; they divorced in 1951. Medina married Joseph Cotten on 20 October 1960, in Beverly Hills at the home of David O. Selznick and Jennifer Jones. Cotten and she bought an historic 1935 home in the Mesa neighborhood of Palm Springs, California, where they lived from 1985 to 1992. No children were born from either marriage. Medina died at age 92 on 28 April 2012, from natural causes at the Barlow Respiratory Hospital in Los Angeles, California. She was interred at Blandford Cemetery in Petersburg, Virginia, beside the remains of her husband, Cotten.
Born: July 19, 1919
Place of Birth: Liverpool, Merseyside, England, UK
Known For
Filmography
as Miami Lills
as Lucretia
as Betty Thaxter
as Lucia Belmont
as Countess Marissa Maricelli
as Serena Diablo
as Wife
as Witch
as Jenny Stapleton
as Nadja
as Victorine Lafourcade
as Mme. Celeste Soulange
as Cynthia Kenyon
as Lupe
as Eileen Mason
as Isabella Maria Ynez Y Castra De La Cuesta / Rosita Morales
as Albertine
as Carla Doyle
as Ruthanne Harper
as Zofia
as Harriet Balfour
as Angela Medley
as Lila Hodges
as Sarita
as Peg Jarret
as Jean Williams
as Laura Lanfranchi
as Lili Scarlet
as Mily
as Princess Karjan
as Laura
as Liz Burdock
as Linet
as Wanda Spence
as Jeanette
as Anna Luz
as Princess Zendi
as Martha Darby
as Marie-Claire
as Bathsheba
as Sally Munroe
as Nora Stead
as Dona Isabella
as Princess Anne / Princess Louise
as Princess Jasmine
as Lida
as Lisa de Beck
as Joyce Greene
as Lila Reyes
as Hilda Jones
as Nicole Dupre
as Isabelita Sotomayor
as Maureen Gelder
as Fancy Free
as Kitty
as Desiree
as Audrey Ashton
as Kay Burns
as Cenci Prohaska
as Joan Dodd
as Lady Mary
as Odette Roux
as Mary, Manicurist (as Pat Medina)
as Ingrid
as Hotel Receptionist (uncredited)