Patricia Idlette

Acting

Patricia Idlette

Born 1958-10-01 · Miami, Florida, US

Patricia Idlette is an American actress known for her role as Kiffany in Showtime's Dead Like Me. She also appeared in four episodes of Battlestar Galactica as politician Sarah Porter, and as Melanie Blackstone in the miniseries Amerika. Idlette portrayed Katherine Jackson, mother of Michael Jackson, in the 2004 biopic Man in the Mirror: The Michael Jackson Story. She appeared as Brenda's mother in Scary Movie 3 in 2003. Originally from Miami, Florida, she trained as an actress in Florida and Michigan. She moved to Canada to join the repertory company of the Stratford Festival, acting in productions of A Midsummer Night's Dream, Antony and Cleopatra, The Winter's Tale, The Merchant of Venice, As You Like It and Medea. She remained based in Canada for many years, acting on stage in Toronto and Vancouver and appearing as a guest actor in television series such as Street Legal, The Littlest Hobo, Adderly, Katts and Dog and The X-Files. She garnered a Dora Mavor Moore Award nomination for Best Performance by a Female in a Featured Role for her performance in Susan G. Cole's play A Fertile Imagination.

Acting credits

Scary Movie 3 poster
6.0

News anchorwoman Cindy Campbell has to investigate mysterious crop circles and killing video tapes, and help the President stop an alien invasion in the process.

Scary Movie 3

2003

She's the Man poster
6.8

Viola Hastings is in a real jam. Complications threaten her scheme to pose as her twin brother, Sebastian, and take his place at a new boarding school. She falls in love with her handsome roommate, Duke, who loves beautiful Olivia, who has fallen for Sebastian! As if that were not enough, Viola's twin returns from London ahead of schedule but has no idea that his sister has already replaced him on campus.

She's the Man

2006

Chaos Theory poster
6.4

Frank Allen, a professional speaker who lectures on time management has a perfectly ordered and scheduled life, down to the minute. When his wife sets his clock forward 10 minutes as a joke, his day is thrown off. Deciding that his strictly ordered life has done him little good, he begins to make multiple choice index cards, choosing one at random and doing what is written on the card.

Chaos Theory

2008

The Ron Clark Story poster
7.6

Passionate and innovative teacher Ron Clark leaves his small hometown to teach in one of Harlem's toughest schools. But to break through to the students, he must use unconventional methods, including his ground-breaking classroom rules, to help them reach their potential. Based on a true story.

The Ron Clark Story

2006

The Perfect Score poster
5.8

Six high school seniors decide to break into the Princeton Testing Center so they can steal the answers to their upcoming SAT tests and all get perfect scores.

The Perfect Score

2004

Ginger Snaps 2: Unleashed poster
6.5

Brigitte has escaped the confines of Bailey Downs but she's not alone. Another werewolf is tailing her closely and her sister's specter haunts her. An overdose of Monkshood - the poison that is keeping her transformation at bay - leads to her being incarcerated in a rehabilitation clinic for drug addicts where her only friend is an eccentric young girl by the name of Ghost.

Ginger Snaps 2: Unleashed

2004

Holiday Heart poster
7.0

After losing his police officer lover, Christian drag queen Holiday Heart meets 12-year-old Niki and her drug-addicted mother, Wanda. Heart finds relief from heartache and a renewed sense of purpose when he steps in as a father figure to Niki and welcomes the two women into his life. But when Wanda becomes romantically involved with her drug dealer, Silas, it may endanger Niki and threaten to destroy the makeshift family.

Holiday Heart

2000

Shock-Trauma poster
10.0

Dr. R. Adams Cowley, the Baltimore physician who pioneered medicine's first shocktrauma unit, fights hospital bureaucracy to gain recognition for his center.

Shock-Trauma

1982

Bad Girls from Valley High poster
4.0

Soon after the arrival of a mysterious exchange student, who they're convinced has something to do with a murder they committed one year earlier, three ruthless high school queen bees begin to prematurely age.

Bad Girls from Valley High

2005

Hands of a Stranger poster
4.9

A New York cop becomes obsessed with finding his wife's rapist.

Hands of a Stranger

1987

Sole Survivor poster
6.8

A reporter loses his wife and daughter to a plane crash, but when the sole survivor appears, the reporter realizes that it wasn't a mere accident, but a mysterious conspiracy involving children.

Sole Survivor

2000

Tempbot poster
6.3

The film follows a 'tempbot', a robot assigned for a short period of time at an ordinary office, and his romantic endeavours with the Human Resources manager.

Tempbot

2006

Last Wish poster
10.0

A woman with cancer seeks the assistance of her daughter in fulfilling her last wish - a wish to die with dignity.

Last Wish

1992

Heavenly Bodies poster
5.7

A small dance studio fights for its existence against the unscrupulous owner of a rival club.

Heavenly Bodies

1984

Past Tense poster
4.6

Trying to prove to her daughter that her nightmares aren't real, widowed mother Kim Shay 'investigates,' unwittingly bringing danger into their lives. Kim follows a trail that not only leads to the killer of a past victim, but also of her own husband.

Past Tense

2006

Floating Away poster
5.0

After losing custody of her infant child to her domineering husband, a distressed woman's cross country search for family becomes a journey of self discovery and redemption.

Floating Away

1998

Out of Darkness poster
9.0

A paranoid schizophrenic woman finds treatment to her mental illness after 18 years of suffering.

Out of Darkness

1994

Toe Tags poster
10.0

The Valley Creek Apartments seem to be a magnet for rich, beautiful people. But the rent has just gone up and it is costing residents their lives. Detectives Kate Wagner and Mark Weiss arrive to begin the investigation, but every time they get close to capturing the lunatic murderer, a suspect is found murdered. Bodies are piling up in the morgue with one thing in common: missing toe tags.

Toe Tags

1996

Hostage poster
5.0

After five hard years behind bars Bonnie Lee is still haunted by her past which hides a terrible secret and hunted by her father, a man desperate for revenge and a need to silence her forever... Alone on the run, she will do whatever it takes to survive and find the one person who can clear her name - her mother. She's a desperate woman on a desperate mission and the only person who can save her is the only person who cares... her Hostage .

Hostage

1988

Class Warfare poster
6.9

In a remote cabin in the woods, Kristen tries to convince her boyfriend to kill fellow classmate Richard to gain possession of his winning lottery ticket.

Class Warfare

2001