Patricia Quinn was born in Belfast, Northern Ireland. She was beginning to break into television when she was offered the role of "the Usherette/Magenta" in Richard O'Brien's "Rocky Horror Show", the role she would become best known for. Patricia continued to work hard after "Rocky Horror" and soon became a household name going on to star in ...
When asked if she was excited to be a "granny", Patricia replied, "Hell I am. I never wanted grandchildren. I never wanted children. I just wanted to be an actress."
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Lives in the London, Primrose Hill flat which is where she has lived since the early 1970s. [August 2004]
As the wife of the late Sir Robert Stephens, she is "Patricia, Lady Stephens" (prior to his death, she was "Lady Stephens" since she was not honoured in her own right but was a "lady" by virtue of being the wife of a knight).
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Her nephew is drummer Johnny Quinn, from the band Snow Patrol, from her hometown of Belfast.
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Her mother was killed in an explosion which took place in their Belfast home while she was in the hospital with pneumonia.
Was a Playboy bunny - one of the first of the London Playboy Club for 3 months before going to the Drama Centre in London 1963. Following this the Glasgow Citizens Theatre.
Her lips are the infamous lips in The Rocky Horror Picture Show (1975) that sing "Science Fiction, Double Feature" in the introduction sequence of the movie, although the voice is Richard O'Brien.
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