Patricia Wettig Biography
Patricia Wettig is an American actress and playwright. She was born on December 4, 1951 in Milford, Ohio, U.S.She is best known for her role as Nancy Weston in the television series Thirtysomething (1987–1991), for which she received a Golden Globe Award and three Primetime Emmy Awards.
Wettig also had the recurring role of CIA psychotherapist Dr. Judy Barnett on Alias (husband Olin was a producer and director on the series). Before joining Brothers & Sisters, she played the fictional Vice President Caroline Reynolds on the 2005 Fox television drama, Prison Break.
She turned down Fox’s offer of becoming a series regular on Prison Break in order to pursue Brothers & Sisters. In 2007 ABC and FOX agreed that Wettig could briefly reprise her role as Caroline Reynolds, providing off-camera voice-overs and appearing in a scene with Wentworth Miller.
Patricia Wettig and Ken Olin on the red carpet at the 41st Annual Emmy Awards. In 2012, Wettig joined the national tour for Larry Kramer’s production, The Normal Heart.
Patricia Wettig Age
She stands at the age of 67 years old as of 2019, having been born on December 4, 1951, Milford, Ohio, U.S, where she has grown during her teenage life.
Patricia Wettig Education
She attended Ohio Wesleyan University and graduated from Temple University in 1975. She returned to her studies later in life and received a Master of Fine Arts in playwriting from Smith College in 2001. F2M, a play she authored, was performed in 2011 as part of the New York Stage and Film and Vassar College’s 2011 Powerhouse Theater season.
Patricia Wettig Family
Patricia was born to Florence and Clifford Neal Wettig, a high school basketball coach. She has three sisters namely Pam, Phyllis, and Peggy. She was raised in Grove City, Pennsylvania together with her sibling.
Patricia Wettig Husband
Patricia and husband Ken Olin recently celebrated their 35th marriage anniversary. They enjoyed their dating life for a year and four months and finally tied knots in 1982, May 8. There are no changes that came along the way of more than three decades of marital relationship that they still share as a couple.
Patricia Wettig Kids
Their marriage has been blessed with children and they welcomed their first child a son, Clifford Olin in 1983, after a year of their marriage. Later, they gave birth to a daughter, Roxanne Olin in 1985.
Patricia Wettig Net Worth
When it comes to her wealth, Patricia Wettig is an American actress and playwright. She grew in the ladder of wealth to attain a net worth of $2 million.
Patricia Wettig Actress
Although Wettig has acted in a number of films (including City Slickers, Guilty by Suspicion, and The Langoliers), she is best known for her work on television. She received critical acclaim (and a number of awards) for her role as Nancy Weston on ABC’s thirtysomething.
Her portrayal of Nancy’s cancer struggle attracted considerable acclaim and attention. She also portrayed Joanne McFadden on the television program St. Elsewhere. In addition, Wettig appeared in a number of popular television programs during the 1980s and 1990s including L.A. Law, Frasier, Hill Street Blues, and Remington Steele.
Wettig starred in the ABC comedy-drama series Brothers & Sisters, which debuted in September 2006, where she portrays the Walker family patriarch’s mistress, Holly Harper.
Her character was the co-CEO at Ojai Foods with Sarah Walker, the daughter of William Walker. She left the show mid-season during Season 5 after her character Holly Harper followed her daughter to New York along with her fiance David played by real-life husband Ken Olin. This season sees the whole Harper family absent from the show.
Patricia Wettig Controversy
The cast and creators behind the seminal series open up about the show’s surprising success, controversial storylines, and its long-lasting legacy.
Had it not been for some home remodeling, there might never have been a Thirtysomething.
Marshall Herskovitz and his partner Ed Zwick had taken a development deal with MGM Television in the mid-1980s, even though they were far more interested in making movies than a TV show to follow their Emmy-winning telefilm Special Bulletin. That’s why, Herskovitz now admits, “we felt we were scamming people a little.”
Patricia Wettig Movies
Guilty by Suspicion
City Slickers
Me and Veronica
City Slickers II: The Legend of Curly’s
Gold
Bongwater
Dancer, Texas Pop. 81
Nightmare in Big Sky Country
City Slickers
Me and Veronica
Taking Back My Life: The Nancy
Ziegenmeyer Story
City Slickers II: The Legend of Curly’s
Gold
Bongwater 1997
Dancer, Texas Pop. 81
Lackawanna Blues 2005
The Naked Brothers Band: The Movie
The 19th Wife (film)
Silent Motive
Police Story: Cop Killer
Nightmare In Big Sky Country
Nothing But the Truth
Kansas
Patricia Wettig TV Shows
Prison Break
Brothers and Sisters
Prison Break
Breaking News (TV series)
Alias (TV series)
Courthouse (TV series)
thirtysomething
Remington Steele
Hill Street Blues
Stingray
St. Elsewhere
L.A. Law
hirtysomething
The Langoliers
Courthouse
Frasier
L.A. Doctors
Breaking News
Boomtown
Alias
Prison Break
Brothers & Sisters
Identity
Heartstrings
Patricia Wettig Awards
- Emmy Award 1988
- Emmy Award 1990
- Q Award 1990
- Golden Globes Awards 1991
- Emmy Award 1991
- Q Award 1991
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