Actress Patricia Clarkson

Patricia Clarkson first caught people's attention as a television reporter in the 1988 Dirty Harry movie The Dead Pool, and has been a consistent presence in movies ever since.



Clarkson's more recent movies include 1999's The Green Mile, 2002's Far from Heaven, and 2005's Good Night and Good Luck. In 2003, she was nominated for a Best Supporting Actress Oscar for Pieces of April, in which she played an acerbic mother dying of cancer.