Paula Patton

Paula Maxine Patton was born on December 5, 1975 in Los Angeles, California, United States, in the heart of the movie mecca. His mother is white of European origin, and his father is a black lawyer. In fact, opposite his house, on the same street, was the 20th Century Fox studio ^, which, together with his mother’s taste for movies, a teacher, perfectly explains why he was immediately attracted to cinema. She wanted to tell stories, and also be in them as an actress. So at his institute, the Hamilton Magnet Arts, he acted in several school plays, one of them “The Crucible” by Arthur Miller ., where she played the attractive role of Abigail in the well-known story of the Salem witches. Paula’s adolescence was clearly happy, because at the age of 14 she met the love of her life, the later singer Robin Thicke , whom she would marry in 2005 and have a son. This marriage would help him become related to other well-known names in the world of music, his in-laws are Alan Thicke and Gloria Loring. Robin would show his love for the actress by dedicating a song to her, “Lost Without U”, and featuring her on the cover of his first album, “A Beautiful World”.

Paula’s film concerns led her to study film studies at the University of Southern California, and from there she would go on to work as an assistant on documentaries for PBS, US public television, and the Discovery health channel.

Despite the aforementioned training, it seems that Patton wanted above all to chart a career as an actress. In this field, he has been playing small roles for six years, in which his imposing physique has helped him. So you’ve been in business titles likeHitch (2005), opposite Will Smith , andDéjà vu (2006), with another African American, Denzel Washington . In Hollywood they have noticed her especially in stories related to the black community, there are her interventions in the hip-hop movieWild Rhythm (2006) and as a teacher of the obesePrecious (2009). He has co-starred with Kiefer Sutherland in the terrifyingReflections and in the same year, 2008, he accompanied Kevin Costner to getThe last vote , decisive to decide who will be the next president of the United States.

After having been with Queen Latifah in the sillyPerfect play, and starringTwo families and a wedding , an ensemble film with an almost entirely African-American cast, it could be a turning point in her career to show herself as an intelligent and glamorous action woman inMission Impossible: Ghost Protocol (2011), where he proves to fit perfectly into the concept of “girl Ethan”, companion in fatigues in the fourth installment of the adventures of the secret agent played by Tom Cruise .