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Patricia McCormack (born Patricia Ellen Russo; August 21, 1945) is an American actress with a career in theater, films, and television. McCormack began her career as a child actress. She is perhaps best known for her performance as Rhoda Penmark in
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's 1956
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drama '' The Bad Seed''. She received critical acclaim for the role on
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and was nominated for an
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for Best Supporting Actress for her performance in
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's film adaptation. Her acting career has continued with both starring and supporting roles in film and television, including
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in the original ''
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'' production of ''The Miracle Worker'',
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's wife Anne Brookes on the
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'',
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's mother in ''
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'', and as
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in '' Frost/Nixon'' (2008).


Life and career

McCormack was born in New York City on August 21, 1945, as Patricia Ellen Russo. Her parents divorced when she was young, and she took on her maternal grandmother's surname. Her father, Frank Russo, was a fireman and a friend of
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; as a favor to Frank, Matthau secured McCormack a deal with his agent, Leonard Hirshan, when she was a teenager. She attended New Utrecht High School in 1958. McCormack made her motion-picture debut in ''
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'' (1951) and appeared as Ingeborg in the television series ''
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from 1953 to 1956. Her Broadway debut was in ''Touchstone'' (1953), and the following year, she originated the role of Rhoda Penmark, an 8-year-old
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, in
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's '' The Bad Seed'' (1954) with
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. She was nominated for an
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for the film version (1956). She portrayed
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in the original 1957 ''
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'' production of
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's ''
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'' opposite
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. In 1959 she was in an episode of ''
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'' called "Make Me Not a Witch". She had the role of a pampered child star in the 1958 comedy ''
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'' and recorded the title song for
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. McCormack briefly starred in her own series, ''Peck's Bad Girl'', with Marsha Hunt and
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in 1959, and had a leading role in
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's remake of ''
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'' with
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. In the early 1960s, she starred in a series of popular teenage delinquent films, including ''
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'' with
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and '' The Young Runaways''. In 1962, she portrayed Julie Cannon in the ''
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'' episode "Incident of the Wolvers" (s.5, e.8); she appeared on the show again the following year, playing Sarah Higgins in the episode "Incident at Paradise". After a half-dozen teen roles during the 1960s, her film career gradually declined, but she continued to work in television. In 1970, she played Linda Warren on the
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'' The Best of Everything''. She guest-starred on ''
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'', season two, episode "Blockade". She also portrayed a San Francisco paramedic on the season-seven ''
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'' series episodes " What's a Nice Girl Like You Doing...?" and " The Convention". She resumed her cinema career with '' Bug'' in 1975. She played advertising executive Beth Donaldson in "The Little People" episode of "The Love Boat" S2 E10 which aired on 11/24/1978. McCormack held several recurring roles in popular television series, including ''
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''; ''
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''; and ''
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''. McCormack also starred as Anne Brookes, the wife of Jeffrey P. Brookes III (played by Jeffrey Tambor) on the ABC television series ''
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'', a spin-off of ''
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'' starring
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and
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, from 1979 to 1980. When
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left the CBS soap opera ''
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'' for an extended period, McCormack took Hays' role until she returned. She starred as a psychotic mother in the cult thriller '' Mommy'' and its 1997 sequel '' Mommy 2: Mommy's Day''. In 2008, McCormack played First Lady
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in the feature film '' Frost/Nixon''. McCormack continues to work regularly and she costarred in the 2012 series ''Have You Met Miss Jones?''. A recent film appearance is in the 2014 release ''Chicanery'' and she guest-starred in a 2013 episode of the series ''
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''. Her most notable recent work was in the
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film '' The Master''. In April 2018, it was announced that McCormack would join the cast of ''
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'' temporarily replacing
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in the role of
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due to injuries Charleson sustained in a fall. In September 2018, McCormack portrayed Dr. March, the child psychiatrist consulted in the 2018 television remake of ''The Bad Seed''. She starred in
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's play ''Just Another Day'' in 2023 at
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, in 2024 at an
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, Ireland.


Awards

McCormack was nominated for an
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and a Golden Globe for Best Supporting Actress for ''The Bad Seed''. On March 20, 1956, she received the
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"Gold Star Award" as the most outstanding juvenile performer, in which
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was placed third and
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second. Her star on the
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is at 6312 Hollywood Boulevard. She received the star in 1960 aged 15, making her the youngest honoree on the Walk.


Selected filmography

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'' (1951) Fay Oliver *''
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'' (1951) Orphan (uncredited) *''
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'' (1954) Little Laughing Girl (uncredited) *'' The Bad Seed'' (1956) Rhoda Penmark *''
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'' (1957) Angel, the Robber Girl (voice in 1959 English version) *''
All Mine to Give ''All Mine to Give'' (British title: ''The Day They Gave Babies Away'') is a 1957 Technicolor melodrama film directed by Allen Reisner and starring Glynis Johns, Cameron Mitchell, and Rex Thompson. When first one parent, then the other, dies, t ...
'' (1957) Annabelle Eunson *''
Kathy O' ''Kathy O is a 1958 American CinemaScope comedy-drama film directed by Jack Sher and starring Dan Duryea, Jan Sterling, Patty McCormack and Mary Fickett. Plot Kathy O'Rourke is a child actress who portrays girls such as Shirley Temple on the ...
'' (1958) Kathy O'Rourke *''
Peck's Bad Girl ''Peck's Bad Girl'' is a 1918 comedy film directed by Charles Giblyn, written by Tex Charwate, produced by Samuel Goldwyn, and starring Mabel Normand and Earle Foxe. The black and white silent film, in the style of the Peck's Bad Boy stories, wa ...
'' (1959) Torey Peck *''
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'' (season 2, episode 12: "The Mary Ellen Thomas Story"; 1959) Mary Ellen Thomas *'' Alcoa Presents: One Step Beyond'' (episode: "Make Me Not a Witch"; 1959) Emmy Horvath *''
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'' (1960) Joanna Wilkes *''
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'' (season 1, episode 1: "Black November"; 1960) Jenny Slade; (season 2, episode 18: "Sleep on Four Pillows"; 1961) Jan Emerson *''
The Explosive Generation ''The Explosive Generation'' is a 1961 film directed by Buzz Kulik. It stars William Shatner and Patty McCormack. Plot The story is about Peter Gifford, a teacher who wants to teach high school students to think for themselves and express thems ...
'' (1961) Janet Sommers *''
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'' (1960) Julie *'' Jacktown'' (1962) Margaret *'' The New Breed'' (1962) Karen Kegler *'' Maryjane'' (1968) Susan Hoffman *''
The Mini-Skirt Mob ''The Mini-Skirt Mob'' is a 1968 outlaw biker film about an all-female motorcycle gang. The film was directed by Maury Dexter, and stars Diane McBain, Jeremy Slate, Sherry Jackson, Patty McCormack, Harry Dean Stanton and Sandra Marshall. In the ...
'' (1968) Edie *'' The Young Runaways'' (1968) Deanie Donford *'' Bug'' (1975) Sylvia Ross *''
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'' (1979-1980) Anne Brookes (as Patricia McCormack) *''
Magnum, P.I. ''Magnum, P.I.'' is an American crime drama television series starring Tom Selleck as Thomas Magnum, a private investigator (P.I.) living on Oahu, Hawaii. The series ran from December 11, 1980, to May 1, 1988, during its first-run broadcast on ...
'' (1982) Carol Baldwin *'' Invitation to Hell'' (1984) Mary Peterson *'' Saturday the 14th Strikes Back'' (1988) Kate Baxter *''
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'' (1987) (Episode: "No Accounting for Murder") Lana Whitman *''
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'' (1988) (Episode: "Wearing of the Green") Det. Kathleen Chadwick *'' Mommy'' (1995) Mommy *'' Mommy's Day'' (1997) (aka ''Mommy 2: Mommy's Day'') Mrs. Sterling *''
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'' (2000-2006) Liz La Cerva *'' Acceptable Risk'' (2001) Lois *'' The Kiss'' (2003) Priscilla Standhope *''
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'' (2004) Maysie *''
Shallow Ground ''Shallow Ground'' is a 2004 horror film written and directed by Sheldon Wilson and starring Timothy V. Murphy, Stan Kirsch, Lindsey Stoddart, Patty McCormack, and Rocky Marquette. A naked teenage boy (Rocky Marquette) appears at a soon-to-be ab ...
'' (2004) Helen Reedy * ''
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'' (2004) Barbara Somers "Snapshot" *''
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'' (2004) (Episode: "Greed") Mavis Breen *'' Gone, But Not Forgotten'' (2004) Andrea Hammerhill *'' Heart of the Beholder'' (2005) Helen *''
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'' (2005) - Marcia Gordon *'' Frost/Nixon'' (2008) Pat Nixon *'' Private Practice'' (2009) Cynthia *''
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'' (2010) Teresa Pruitt *''
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'' (2012) Eleanor Holmes and Betsy *'' The Master'' (2012) Mildred Drummond *''
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'' (2012) Anne Pierce *''
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'' (2013) Sylvie Stephens-Wilkes *'' The Bad Seed'' (2018) Dr. March *'' Cookie Run: Kingdom'' (2021) Dark Enchantress Cookie *''
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'' (2022) Dr. March


Radio appearances


See also

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References


Further reading

* Rigdon, Walter (ed.) ''The Biographical Encyclopedia of Who's Who of the American Theatre''. New York: James H. Heineman, Inc. c1966. * Best, Marc. ''Those Endearing Young Charms: Child Performers of the Screen'', South Brunswick and New York: Barnes & Co., 1971, pp. 171–175. * Dye, David. ''Child and Youth Actors: Filmography of Their Entire Careers, 1914-1985''. Jefferson, NC: McFarland & Co., pp. 138–139. * "Patty McCormack." ''Biography Resource Center''. Thomson Gale. February 15, 2005.


External links

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Patty McCormack
at the American Film Institute Catalog
Interview, July 19, 2014, Ames Tribune
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