Patricia Idlette

Patricia Idlette is an American actress best known for playing Kiffany on Showtime's Dead Like Me. A Miami, Florida native, she trained in Florida and Michigan. She moved to Canada to join the Stratford Festival's company, appearing in plays such as Medea, A Midsummer Night's Dream, As You Like It and The Merchant of Venice. She stayed based in Canada for years, acting on Toronto and Vancouver stages and taking guest roles on series such as Street Legal, The Littlest Hobo and The X-Files. Her featured performance in Susan G. Cole's A Fertile Imagination earned a Dora Mavor Moore Award nomination. On television and film, she played Sarah Porter in four Battlestar Galactica episodes, Melanie Blackstone in the miniseries Amerika, Katherine Jackson in Man in the Mirror: The Michael Jackson Story, a 2004 biopic, and took the part of Brenda's mother in the 2003 film Scary Movie 3. She returned to Florida in the early 2000s.