The audience knows the American actress Paula (Paulo) Patton for her roles in the films Mission Impossible: Phantom Protocol, Mirrors, Treasure, Deja Vu and Warcraft.
The exotic appearance of the actress ensured that the parents belong to two different races.
Childhood and youth
Paula Maxine Patton (Paula Maxine Patton) was born on December 5, 1975 in Los Angeles. The mother of the future celebrity, Joyce Vanraden, was a teacher at the school. The head of the family, Charles Patton, is a lawyer.
The girl loved to study. She especially liked literature. Paula's family had nothing to do with filmmaking. On the other hand, the 20th Century Fox film studio was located not far from the house.
The future screen star also went on excursions there. The studio visits began when Paula became a teenager. She took part in school plays.
The schoolgirl continued her studies at the Hamilton Magnet Arts educational institution. Parents tried to convince their daughter, persuading her to pursue a liberal arts education.
Paula entered the University of California, Berkeley. She began studying English literature there. However, the girl only lasted a year.
The student transferred to the University of Southern California Motion Picture Arts. There, the future star plunged into the world of cinema and theater. The graduate found a job three months after the completion of the education process.
The path to the heights
She was offered the position of assistant director of documentaries of the Discovery Channel. The girl considered it luck. At the same time, the talented performer took up vocals and songwriting.
Her creations in 2004 were released in the album of the singer Asher "Confession". Paula took part in the recording of the hit Can U Handle It. Co-written by Patton and other musicians. The film debut took place in 2005.
Paula got a small role in the comedy starring Will Smith and Eva Mendes. The next step was an episode in the film drama "London". Success came a year later. The actress has reincarnated as the main character of the fantastic thriller "Deja Vu" by Claire Kachiver.
The performer had a chance to play with Denzel Washington. The picture became a hit. Patton landed the role of TV journalist Kate Madison in the comedy-drama "Sober Head" in 2008. Again filming with Denzel Washington took place in 2013.
Paula starred in Two Barrels. The plot of the comedy action movie unfolds around a scout and a police officer working in an undercover drug cartel. Both are substituted by the new task of their present manual.
The next step was the performance of the main character in the "Baggage Claim", defeated by critics. In February 2015, the actress was invited to play the key role of the ABC series "Runner".
Confession
Paula admitted in an interview that she was lucky for the stars from the first pictures. She partnered with Will Smith in The Rules of Removal: The Hitch Method, and in Getting Sober, the aspiring performer worked with Kevin Costner.
The prophetic role went to Paula in the musical comedy "My Life in Idlewild". She played a famous actress who happened to be in the quiet town of Idewild, where everything is absolutely predictable.
The accumulated experience Patton has successfully applied to create one of the key characters in the film "Mirror". The horror film has become a free remake of the South Korean thriller Through the Looking Glass. The main character confronts a demon moving by mirrors.
In the romantic comedy "Trial by the Wedding" she got the role of the bride. The social drama due to the class differences in the plot unfolded during the preparations for the wedding.
In his creative biography, Patton 2011 turned into a cinematic diamond. Together with Tom Cruise, Paula worked on the next part of the blockbuster Mission: Impossible: Phantom Protocol. The film "All over again" begins as a story about the weekend of school friends.
The decision to start a new life turned into a spy thriller. In the picture, all the characters change statuses, new details emerge in new scenes of the tape, it often turns out that previous revelations were completely false.
Patton got the role of a widow who met a man posing as her late husband. True, it turned out that the unfortunate widow herself was by no means a victim.
Star role
Paula became famous for the role of a half-orc woman in the colorful fantasy epic "Warcraft". The film begins with the destruction of the orcs' homeworld. In fear, the defeated flee to another world.
The people living there do not give the newcomers a friendly welcome. The confrontation between the Alliance and the Horde begins, the two main warring parties of the game. Garona Half-Hound was not considered a ruling clan of the Horde.
But the king of men chose her to swear an oath of endeavors for the sake of peace between the warring races.
Filming from Paula took a month along with the voice acting. But editing and special effects took about two years from the crew.
The film was continually promoted to online communities, with trailers shown annually at the San Diego Comic Con. The premiere took place in 2016.
The critics did not like the picture. There were no positive reviews. And the very idea of filming based on a video game was not initially successful.
But later it turned out that "Warcraft" managed to become the first and only film project based on a computer game, which grossed more than four hundred million at the box office.
Family matters
With her chosen one, the star began to meet while still at school. Robin Thicke has become a popular composer and singer. The lovers have been together since 1993. In 2005, the actress and singer became husband and wife.
In 2010 they had a child. The kid was named Julian Fuego Tick. However, the birth of a son did not save a ten-year marriage. According to rumors, the reason for the separation was Robin's betrayal.
In 2017, Paula played Laura Price, the main character, in the drama series Somewhere in Between. Laura will have to constantly live the day of her daughter's murder. The woman has to find a way to prevent the death of the girl.
2018 actresses reincarnated on the screen in the main character of the thriller "Traffic". In the story, a couple prepares for a romantic hike in the mountains, but encounters a gang supplying victims for sex trafficking.
Lovers have to start a deadly confrontation.
Paula Patton maintains an Instagram account. The star has tens of thousands of subscribers. Pictures from photo shoots, daily walks, and friendly meetings regularly appear on the page. The performer uploads interesting photos of the events behind the scenes from the filming with her participation.
