Paula Patton

Paula Patton is the daughter of Joyce (Vanraden), Patton, and Charles Patton. Her father is African American, and her mother is caucasian and is of German, English and Dutch heritage. Her family lived on the same street as the 20th Century Fox lot when she was growing up , and she was a huge fan of movies from her early childhood. Her mother, also loved good films taught in a school, as was her father, an attorney. Paula claimed that she tried to escape when she was an infant through "pretending" to become someone else. So it's not a surprise that she was a part of Hamilton Magnet Arts High School productions. Her most loved role was one of Abigail in "The Crucible". After having graduated from the University of Southern California's summer camp, she took film classes and was then given a 3 month task to produce documentaries for PBS. She was then hired as a production assistant on documentaries on TV and Howie Mandel's talk-show. Her career progressed to producing documentary segments for Medical Diaries (2000) airing on Discovery Health Channel. Paula says that she was happy with what she was doing, but her ambitions remained the same as when she was small so she learned acting and switched gears to become a performer. She became a household name in a short time and was featured in Hitch (2006), Idlewild (2006) as well as Deja Vu (2006) as the female leading lady.