Paula Patton

Paula Patton was the daughter of Joyce (Vanraden), and Charles Patton. Her father is African-American . her mother, who is caucasian is of German, English, and Dutch her ancestry. Her family lived directly next to the 20th Century Fox lot as she was growing-up, and she was an avid movie buff from her early days. Her mother was a teacher while her father worked as an attorney. Paula states that she used to escape from her mother by pretending to be someone else when she was when she was a kid. It's not a surprise that she took part in Hamilton Magnet Arts High School's high school plays. Her most loved role was one played by Abigail in "The Crucible". After graduation from the University Southern California's summer school, she pursued film studies and was assigned a three-month project to make documentaries for PBS. This meant that she was hired as a production associate in TV documentaries and on Howie Mandel’s talk show. Later, she produced documentaries for Medical Diaries (2000 on Discovery Health Channel). Paula admits she is happy with doing what she loves, but she dreams of becoming an actor. She quickly became successful and, in just three years of her debut, she had appeared in part in two major feature films: Hitch (2005) and Idlewild (2006) and also the female character in Deja Vu (2006) opposite Denzel Washington.