Patricia Medina

Patricia Medina was a British actress who started performing as a teenager in the late 1930s, moved into leading parts by the middle of the 1940s, and then left London for Hollywood. Born in Liverpool, she was frequently cast in period melodramas, among them The Black Knight, and she was best known for Phantom of the Rue Morgue (1954) and Mr. Arkadin (1955). She played opposite Louis Hayward in Fortunes of Captain Blood, and the two worked together again on The Lady and the Bandit and Captain Pirate. By the late 1950s her film work had slowed, and she took television roles on Zorro, Have Gun Will Travel, Perry Mason, Bonanza, Thriller, The Alfred Hitchcock Hour and The Man from U.N.C.L.E. In 1968 she came back to features with The Killing of Sister George, and in 1998 her autobiography, Laid Back in Hollywood, was published.