Patricia Mattick was born in Denver, Colorado, on July 31st, 1951, as Patricia Colleen Mattick; her family was from Granby, Colorado. The family moved to Reseda, California – probably in the early nineteen sixties.

Education: Patricia graduated from Grover Cleveland High School, class of 1969, in Reseda, in the San Fernando Valley portion of Los Angeles, California.

Actor Training: Patricia was trained as an actress in The Academy of Stage & Cinema Arts, the Lee Strasberg Theatre Institute and in The Burbank Studios.

Beginnings as a Thespian- Television Beckons: Patricia made her acting debut in 1970, appearing in the role of Sheila Colby in the episode “Half Way” of the pioneering TV series “Room 222”. In 1971, she appeared as Janie in Don Siegel’s American Gothic film “The Beguiled”, starring Clint Eastwood, Geraldine Page, and Elizabeth Hartman. As the years went by, she made appearances in many of the nineteen seventies crime dramas, such as “Columbo,” (her character was Margaret Williams, the stepdaughter of the episode's victim, probably her most remembered character ), “Ironside” “Longstreet,” “Mannix,” “Insight,” “The FBI,” “Owen Marshall, Counselor at Law,” “Cannon,” “The Streets of San Francisco,” and “Trapper John, M.D.” She also had roles in several made-for-TV movies, such as “Terror in the Sky” (1971) as Ellen (a deaf passenger that communicates in sign language) and “Cry Rape” (1973, as Jenny Coleman, the sister of a man wrongly accused of rape). Her last acting roles on film or television were in two shorts in the early 1990s, “And Another Honkytonk Girl Says She Will” (1990) and “The Walter Ego.” (1991). Sometimes she was credited as Pattye Mattick or Patty Mattick.

From Television to the Theater: After her television career in the seventies, she switched to the theater becoming an accomplished theater actress in the eighties and nineties, appearing all over the United States, from California to Rhode Island, from Ohio to Florida, in what is known as “off, off Broadway”.

The Theater Years: Patricia appeared in dozens of plays between 1978 and 1995 with several theater companies, mostly with the Padua Playwrights Productions, in the Los Angeles area. She was a constant collaborator of the late Cuban American playwright Maria Irene Fornes (1930-2018). She appeared in the plays: “The Visit” (1981), “The Danube” (1982), “Bercilak's Dream.” (1982), “Mud” (1983), “Strongbox” (1987), “Almost Asleep” (1989), “And What of the Night?” (1989) “Oscar and Bertha” (1992) and “Ibsen and the Actress” (1995), as Elizabeth, in her last theater appearance. Playwright Maria Irene Fornes directed the play, and it was performed in March/April of 1995 in the University of Iowa. Altogether she appeared in over three dozen plays.

Death: Sadly, Patricia Mattick passed away from cancer on December 6, 2003, in Tallahassee, Florida; she was only fifty-two years old. She was buried next to her mother, Laura Patricia Mattick, in Granby Cemetery in Granby, Colorado, her home state.