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Alice Patten is an English actress, and the daughter of Chris Patten, Baron Patten of Barnes, a prominent British Conservative politician and the last Governor of Hong Kong. She played a leading role in the Bollywood film Rang De Basanti (2006), earning her praise from Indian film critics.
Alice Patten | |
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Born | London, United Kingdom |
Nationality | English |
Education | Island School |
Alma mater | Queens' College, Cambridge |
Occupation | Actress |
Years active | 2002–present |
Height | 184 cm (6 ft 0 in) |
Father | Chris Patten |
Patten was educated at Island School in Hong Kong[1] and at Queens' College, Cambridge.[2][3]
She lived in Hong Kong from 1992 to 1997, during her father's governorship.
Her first major role after graduation was Eugenie in Vincent in Brixton in the West End in 2002.[4]
In 2004, she appeared in Jonathan Creek as Gillian Bailey.
In 2005 and 2006, she appeared in English Touring Theatre's Hamlet, playing Ophelia opposite Ed Stoppard's Prince of Denmark.
In 2006, she appeared in the Bollywood film Rang De Basanti as Sue McKinley, a young British woman who comes to India to make a documentary film about the British rule in the Indian subcontinent. In 2008, she played Thea in Hedda, a new version of Ibsen's Hedda Gabler, at London's Gate Theatre and, in 2009, she guest-starred as Arthur's mother Ygraine in the BBC fantasy drama series Merlin.
Patten also played the role of Vicky Anderson, in an episode of New Tricks, the daughter of an English-born Hong Kong businessman, Douglas Anderson, who had been involved in questionable building deals in Hong Kong, shortly before the end of British rule in 1997.[5]
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