Background
Patricia Breslin was born in New York City, one of three children born to Edward (a judge) and Marjorie Breslin. Her father was a Catholic of Irish descent and her mother was of Scottish descent.
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She graduated from the Academy of Mount Saint Ursula High School and the College of New Rochelle.
Career
In 1954, she guest-starred with Peter Mark Richman in an episode of National Broadcasting Company"s legal drama, Justice, as a woman threatened by hoodlums. In 1955, Breslin was cast in an episode of the Columbia Broadcasting System anthology series Appointment with Adventure, a series with neither a host nor a regular star. Between 1960-1963 Breslin made three guest appearances on Columbia Broadcasting System"s Perry Mason, and was cast as the defendant in all three episodes.
In 1960 she played Karen Lewis in "The Case of the Lavender Lipstick." In 1962 she played Karen Ross in "The Case of the Poison Pen-Pal," and in 1963 as Laura Hewes in "The Case of the Prankish Professor."
In 1960, she played the newlywed wife of William Shatner"s character in Columbia Broadcasting System"s The Twilight Zone episode "Nick of Time" and also in the 1963 Twilight Zone episode "Number Time Like the Past", in which she portrayed Abigail Sloan.
In 1960, she guest starred on the short-lived David McLean western series, Tate, which aired on National Broadcasting Company. She appeared on Nick Adams" American Broadcasting Company western, The Rebel and with Jack Lord in his American Broadcasting Company adventure series, Stoney Burke. Thereafter, Breslin played the role of Anne Mitchell, along with co-stars Ralph Bellamy and Paul Fix, in the 1961 episode "The Haven" of Columbia Broadcasting System"s anthology series, The DuPont Show with June Allyson.
In 1964, she landed in the role of Laura Brooks on the American Broadcasting Company prime time soap opera Peyton Place. She also played the role of Meg Baldwin in the American Broadcasting Company soap opera General Hospital from 1966 to 1969.
She also starred in the William Castle horror movies Homicidal (1961) and I Saw What You Did (1964).
Breslin died on October 12, 2011, at the age of eighty after a lengthy hospitalization with pancreatitis. Her funeral was offered at the Basilica of the National Shrine of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary in Baltimore, Maryland. Her husband, Art Modell had been a major contributor to the restoration of the basilica.
Breslin died five months after the passing of her The People"s Choice co-star, Jackie Cooper.
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