Patricia Medina
Birthday: 1919-07-19 | Place of Birth: Liverpool, Merseyside, England, UKPatricia Paz María Medina(19 July 1919-April 28, 2012) was an English actress, born in Liverpool, England to a Spanish father (Ramón Medina Nebot from Canary Islands) and English mother. She began acting as a teenager in the late 1930s. She worked her way up to leading roles in the mid-1940s, where upon she left for Hollywood. In 1950's Fortunes of Captain Blood, she teamed with British actor Louis Hayward. They subsequently appeared together in 1951's The Lady and the Bandit, Lady in the Iron Mask, and Captain Pirate from 1952. Medina was often typecast in period melodramas such as The Black Knight. Two of her films were William Witney's Stranger at My Door and Orson Welles' Mr. Arkadin, based on episodes of the radio series The Adventures of Harry Lime, itself derived from The Third Man film. Medina married British actor Richard Greene on 24 December 1941, in St. James's Church, Spanish Place, London; they divorced in 1951. Medina married Joseph Cotten on 20 October 1960, in Beverly Hills at the home of David O. Selznick and Jennifer Jones. Cotten and she bought an historic 1935 home in the Mesa neighborhood of Palm Springs, California, where they lived from 1985 to 1992. No children were born from either marriage. Medina died at age 92 on 28 April 2012, from natural causes at the Barlow Respiratory Hospital in Los Angeles, California. She was interred at Blandford Cemetery in Petersburg, Virginia, beside the remains of her husband, Cotten.
Known For
Acting
Role
as Miami Lills
as Lucretia
as Betty Thaxter
as Mily
as Witch
as Albertine
as Zofia
as Angela Medley
as Jean Williams
as Lila Hodges
as Peg Jarret
as Sarita
as Laura Lanfranchi
as Lili Scarlet
as Princess Karjan
as Jeanette
as Linet
as Wanda Spence
as Anna Luz
as Martha Darby
as Princess Zendi
as Sally Munroe
as Dona Isabella
as Nora Stead
as Princess Anne / Princess Louise
as Princess Jasmine
as Joyce Greene
as Lida
as Lila Reyes
