Patricia Richardson, who was born on February 23, 1951, is an American actress most famous for playing the character Jill Taylor on the ABC situation comedy Home Improvement; for this role she was nominated four times for the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Comedy Series and on two occasions for the Golden Globe Award for Best Actress in a Television Series – Comedy or Musical.
She also earned a nomination for the Independent Spirit Award for her performance in Ulee’s Gold (1997). Profile Summary CategoryInformation BornFebruary 23, 1951 (age 75) BirthplaceBethesda, Maryland, U.S. EducationSouthern Methodist University (BFA) OccupationActress Years Active1974–Present Known ForJill Taylor in Home Improvement SpouseRay Baker (married 1982; divorced 1995) Children3 Age Patricia was born on 23 February 1951 (making her 75 years old) in Bethesda, Maryland, USA.
Biography and Education Patricia Richardson, who was born on 23 February 1951, was born in Bethesda, Maryland. She went to a number of schools such as Holton-Arms School and Hockaday School and obtained her degree from Southern Methodist University in 1972. Career In 1974 Richardson was the standby for the part of Gypsy Rose Lee in Angela Lansbury’s Broadway production of Gypsy: A Musical Fable and also took on a number of small chorus roles.[
6] Over the following ten years she worked in regional theater, in commercials, and in various Broadway and Off-Broadway productions. She had parts in shows including The Equalizer, Spenser: For Hire, and Kate & Allie. She appeared in one episode of The Cosby Show during its third season with her husband from real life, portraying a woman having a ninth child. Richardson also appeared in the films Christmas Evil and C.H.U.D.
She was in one episode of Quantum Leap in 1989 playing a radio station owner. In 1983 she went temporarily from New York to Los Angeles in order to take part in a sitcom about Katey Sagal’s twin sisters, Liz and Jean Sagal, titled Double Trouble, which was produced by Norman Lear. Although she was asked to return and do a second season after her contract had ended, she refused in order to remain in New York and continue her work in Beth Henley’s The Miss Firecracker Contest on the off-Broadway stage.
A few years later Allan Burns brought her back to Los Angeles to star in two sitcoms that he produced, namely Eisenhower and Lutz and FM; both programmes lasted for 13 episodes. More… In 1991 Richardson took the role last minute from Frances Fisher, who was to have played Jill Taylor in the ABC situation comedy Home Improvement, a role that would become Fisher’s breakthrough. She was nominated for four Emmys and two Golden Globes for this performance.
During her time on Home Improvement she also hosted the Emmys with Ellen DeGeneres, appeared in the miniseries Undue Influence alongside Brian Dennehy, starred in Sophie and the Moonhanger on Lifetime with Lynn Whitfield, and in 1997 received an Independent Spirit nomination for her first major role in a theatrical film, Ulee’s Gold. In 2002 Richardson took over the role from Janine Turner in the Lifetime medical drama Strong Medicine, playing the new character of Dr. Andy Campbell.
She received two nominations for Prism Awards as a result of her performance in Strong Medicine. After appearing on that programme for three seasons she was given a recurring role as Sheila Brooks, the campaign manager for the Republican presidential candidate Arnold Vinick (played by Alan Alda), in the last two seasons of the NBC political drama The West Wing. Personal life In 1982 Richardson got married to another actor, Ray Baker.
The couple had three children: Henry Richardson Baker (born on 22nd February 1985), and the twins Roxanne Elizabeth Baker and Joe Castle Baker (born on 3rd January 1991), and they later divorced in 1995. She was in a long-term relationship with Mark Cline, a retired psychologist that she had met while they were both students at Southern Methodist University. Richardson was a member of the Board of Directors for many years and is the National Spokesperson for “Cure PSP”, the patient advocacy and research organisation concerned with progressive supranuclear palsy, corticobasal degeneration, multiple system atrophy and other “Prime Of Life” diseases.
The father of hers died from PSP in 2005. Net Worth Patricia Richardson’s net worth is estimated to be between $20 million and $25 million, mainly as a result of her outstanding television career.
