Patricia Quinn - Rotten Tomatoes Celebrity Profile

Biography

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Patricia Quinn, Lady Stephens (born on May 28, 1944, in Belfast, Northern Ireland) is an actress best known for her role as Magenta in the perennial cult-hit movie The Rocky Horror Picture Show (1975). She is also known as the famous red lips that sang the film's opening song Science Fiction/Double Feature (although the singing voice was that of Richard O'Brien). She has appeared in many film and television roles including the Rocky Horror sequel, Shock Treatment (1981), as well as I, Claudius (1976), The Meaning of Life (1983), and the 1987 Doctor Who serial Dragonfire.

Quinn began her career as a Playboy Bunny in London, and met the man who would become her first husband, Don Hawkins, when she was 19 years old, in 1963. Her first marriage to Hawkins ended in divorce, but produced a son, Quinn Hawkins (born 1971).

In January 1995, Quinn married the ailing British actor, Robert Stephens, whose wife she had played in the BBC serial, Fortunes of War. She thus became stepmother to his two actor sons by his previous marriage (to Dame Maggie Smith), Toby Stephens and Chris Larkin. Quinn had also played alongside Stephens in the BBC adaptation of The Box of Delights.

Robert Stephens died in November of that year, in which he was also knighted, thus giving his wife/widow the title of Lady Stephens.

In 2000, Patricia recorded the song 'Guts To Dream' with London based band The Grand. The song was independendantly released on their 'Open Displays Of Affection Ep'.

In 2002 she returned to Doctor Who, playing an alien queen in the audio play Bang-Bang-a-Boom!

In September 2006, Patricia relaunched herself as a London club kitten, hosting the monthly Club Myra night at Trash Palace.

Selected filmography

Fortunes of War (1987) (miniseries)
The Box of Delights (1984) (TV)
The Meaning of Life (1983)
Shock Treatment (1981)
Sebastiane (1977) (uncredited)
I, Claudius (1976) (miniseries)
The Rocky Horror Picture Show (1975)

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