Name	Will Patton
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Naionality	American
Date of Birth	June 14, 1954
Place of Birth	Charleston, South Carolina, United States
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Actor Will Patton successfully divides his time between mainstream and independent features, television films, and a stage career on and off-Broadway. Born and raised in North Carolina, the son of a Lutheran minister, Patton learned his craft at the North Carolina School of the Arts and at New York's Actor's Studio where he studied under Lee Strasberg. In addition, Patton studied at the Open Theater under Joseph Chaikin before making it to the New York stage. Patton has won two Obie Awards for +Tourists and Refugees No. 2 and for Sam_Shepard's +Fool for Love. Patton also has had experience working at London's Royal Court Theatre. Upon his return to New York, Patton joined the experimental Winter Project troupe. During the 1970s, Patton performed in two soap operas, Search for Tomorrow and Ryan's Hope. Patton first appeared on film in the short underground film Minus Zero(1979). During the early '80s, Patton appeared in such New York-based independent films as Michael Oblowitz's King_Blank and Variety (both 1983). After playing a small but important villainous role in Susan_Seidelman's Desperately_Seeking_Susan (1985), Patton was cast in his first big-budget film, Martin_Scorsese's After_Hours (1985), where he played a brutish boyfriend with a thing for leather and chains. His best portrayal of a villain can be found in the Gene_Hackman-starring thriller No_Way_Out (1987). Several of the independent films in which Patton has appeared have gotten good reviews at film festivals, notably The_Spitfire_Grill (1996). Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide