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Patricia Charbonneau (born 1959) is an American actress, probably best known for playing the part of Cay Rivvers in the film Desert Hearts.

Charbonneau was born in Valley Stream, New York on Long Island. (Some sources give the year of birth as 1958.) She graduated in 1977 from Valley Stream Central High School. She attended Boston University.

Patricia 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 another film, Call Me, (1988).

Starting January 2007, Patricia Charbonneau will be a faculty member of the Hudson Valley Academy of Performing Arts in New York where she will be teaching an acting workshop for children and teens.

Partial filmography

• Desert Hearts Film (1985)
• Manhunter Film (1986)
• The Equalizer TV Series (1987) (one episode)
• Shakedown Film (1988)
• Call Me Film (1988)
• Wiseguy TV Series (1989) (five episodes)
• Matlock TV Series (1989) (one episode)
• Robocop 2 Film (1990)
• Murder, She Wrote TV Series (1991) (one episode)
• K2 Film (1992)
• Walker, Texas Ranger TV Series (1993) (one episode)
• Viper TV Series (1994) (one episode)
• seaQuest DSV TV Series (1995) (two episodes)
• profiler TV Series (1997) (one episode)
• She's All That Film (1999)
• Kiss The Sky Film (1999)
• Law & Order: Criminal Intent TV Series (2001) (one episode)
• Law & Order TV Series (2002) (one episode)

External links

• # Patricia Charbonneau Unofficial Link added December 2006
• Hudson Valley Academy of Performing Arts Link added November 2006
• Patricia Charbonneau Photobucket Gallery Link added November 2006
• Patricia Charbonneau/Desert Hearts Yahoo! Group Link added November 2006
• Patricia Charbonneau at IMDb
• Desert Hearts at IMDb

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