Patricia Clarkson
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"Patricia Davies Clarkson" is an American actress. She has starred in many leading and supporting roles in films such as The Station Agent, The Green Mile (film)/The Green Mile, Far from Heaven, High Art, Dogville, Good Night, and Good Luck, Easy A, and Cairo Time. She was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress and the Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actress – Motion Picture/Golden Globe for her performance in Pieces of April (2003). She twice won the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Guest Actress in a Drama Series for her recurring role in Six Feet Under (TV series)/Six Feet Under. In 1998 she was nominated for a Drama Desk Award for Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Featured Actress in a Play/Best Featured Actress in a Play for her Off-Broadway performance in The Maiden's Prayer.

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I was never girlish. My sense of humor was never quite the fit. My voice was never high enough. I was never sexy in that way.

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And it's not that I haven't taken a money job here and there but for the most part I have been driven by the need to work on a great script.

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But I do really love watching the news and going back and forth between all the news channels. That's really just kind of the highlight of my day.

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I have to watch the news or my day is not complete.

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See, the SAG awards caught me totally by surprise.

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The majority of work I do is in independent films, where you're lucky if you have five takes.

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But no, had I been successful in my 20s I would have been just fine. But it is nice to defy the odds.

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I think it would be hard to go the distance in this business without a sense of humor.

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I think it kind of took being a character actor to kind of now enter into leading ladies.

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