Patricia Wettig Biography

Three-time Emmy Award winner Patricia Wettig made a noticeable dramatic impact on late 1980s TV as wife and mom Nancy Weston on the award-winning series Thirtysomething (1987). Although her husband actor Ken Olin also co-starred on the series they had different spouses on the show. Known for her searching blue eyes touching sensitivity obvious intelligence and controlled intensity her post series' career didn't live up to what many expected for her; however lately her fans have enjoyed her major resurgence again on TV as part of the talented ensemble of Brothers & Sisters (2006) with her husband serving as one of the producers. Patricia was born in Cincinnati Ohio on December 4 1951 one of four daughters born to Tennessee college basketball coach Clifford Neal and his wife Florence. Raised in Grove City Pennsylvania she studied drama at Temple University in Philadelphia then graduated from Ohio Wesleyan in 1974. She trained with the Neighborhood Playhouse in the early years and made ends meet at one time as a personal dresser to singer/dancer/actress Shirley MacLaine. She also performed with New York's Circle Repertory Company during the years 1980 and 1981 appearing in such off-Broadway productions as Innocents Thoughts Harmless Intentions The Woolgatherer Childe Byron The Diviners and Threads. She met Olin when both were cast in a 1982 production of A Streetcar Named Desire wherein they DID play a married couple (she portrayed Stella he played Stanley). They wed later that year and had two children together -- Clifford (born 1983) and Roxanne (born 1986).

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