Patricia Smith
American actress
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(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, Patricia Smith was an American actress who performed on stage, in films, and on television from the early 1950s to the late 1990s. Early life and education Born in Connecticut in 1930, Patricia was the younger of two children of Virginia and E. Allen Smith Jr., who worked in New Haven as a salesman of plate glass. She began her primary education in New Haven public schools and completed her secondary education in her father's native state of New Jersey, where by 1940 the Smith family had moved to the city of Summit and where Allen was employed as a representative for a paint manufacturer. Then, during the late 1940s, Patricia obtained her higher education at Skidmore College in Saratoga Springs, New York, majoring there in English and drama.