Patricia Clarkson

(Getty)When you're a hunky, super tall actor known for playing an ab-baring vampire on True Blood, you're probably used to doing a lot of dirty, semi-kinky things while running around in your birthday suit. That's why, it doesn't really surprise us that Alexander Skarsgard, who stars as the ringleader of an eco-terrorist group in the upcoming thriller The East, was very much digging getting cozy and intimate with co-stars including Brit Marling, who plays a secret agent entrusted with...Read Full Story

STACEY PLAISANCE Associated Press NEW ORLEANS Actress Patricia Clarkson has walked red carpets and attended glamorous Hollywood parties. Now the New Orleans-born star of the 2010 thriller "Shutter Island" and the 2003 drama "Pieces of April," will step into a whimsical limelight as she leads the Carnival parade of the Krewe of Muses. Clarkson will board a red fiber-optic-lit float shaped like a high-heeled shoe when the all-female organization parades through New Orleans...Read Full Story

Depicting mental illness on screen is such a difficult undertaking, both for its inherently internal nature and because of the obvious need for sensitivity. When we're talking about a child who's suffering psychologically, the prospect becomes even trickier.Writer-director Daniel Barnz manages to achieve a true and delicate balance for much of "Phoebe in Wonderland," his first feature, but ultimately undermines himself with heavy-handed and rather hackneyed whimsy.Elle Fanning, like older...Read Full Story

Although her breakthrough roles didn’t arrive until her late 30s, it didn’t take Patricia Clarkson long to establish herself as one of the most versatile and respected actresses of her generation, as well as a sex symbol to thinking persons of any gender. In 1987’s “The Untouchables” she was a patient wife to Kevin Costner’s Eliot Ness, then on the TV series “Murder One,” the less self-sacrificing wife to a more flawed great man (though, she once recalled, “I chopped more vegetables in a...Read Full Story

PRINT Email This In 'Cairo Time,' Patricia Clarkson plays Juliette, a woman who, while awaiting her husband's arrival in Egypt, enters into an unexpected affair with a retired cop (Alexander Siddig). Clarkson, whose first film role came as Kevin Costner's wife in 'The Untouchables,' is notable for gliding easily between indie films ('High Art'), mainstream movies ('Shutter Island') and television (Frances Conroy's free-spirited sister on 'Six Feet Under') without batting an eyelash. Here...Read Full Story