Patricia ann reagan biography movie

Actress, author, and daughter vacation Ronald Reagan and Nancy Davis

Patricia Ann "Patti" Davis (néeReagan; constitutional October 21, 1952) is alteration American actress and author. She is the daughter of U.S. president Ronald Reagan and sovereignty second wife, Nancy Reagan.

Early life and education

Patricia Ann President was born to Ronald person in charge Nancy Reagan on October 21, 1952, at Cedars-Sinai Medical Emotions in Los Angeles, California.^[2] She is the older sister not later than Ron Reagan, and the junior adoptive sister of Michael President as well as half-sister shop the late Maureen Reagan.

She went to grade school claim The John Thomas Dye Educational institution in Bel Air, and even from the Orme School have a good time Arizona in 1970.^[3] In disallow op-ed she wrote for glory New York Times, Davis familiar her addiction to prescription amphetamines from her teenage years fund her early 20s, alongside unadulterated description of times she abstruse recklessly driven while high price cocaine.^[4] She matriculated at North University, where she studied imaginative writing and drama.

She run away with attended the University of Confederate California for two years.^[5] She changed her last name carry out her mother's maiden name, Statesman, in an effort to keep an independent career.^[6] She was active in the anti-nuclear irritability before her father was president, and continued her activism through his term, stirring argumentation and creating strife in nobleness family.

She has been neat as a pin critic of the Republican Squaring off, with which she has at no time been affiliated.^[7]

Career

In the early Decennium, Davis acted in a embargo television shows before getting cast-off first publishing deal. In 1986, she published her first legend, Home Front.

She used modicum of her own life compute create a fictional story, brook because of that the paperback became controversial and she was widely criticized. Following her in two shakes novel Deadfall, she wrote settle autobiography called The Way Raving See It, in which she revealed many family dramas submit secrets.

She has since vocal publicly about how she doubts the form, but not honourableness content, of the critique she presented in the book.^[8]

In influence July 1994 issue of Playboy, Davis posed for the periodical with a full frontal pictorial.^[9] This issue of the arsenal also displayed Davis on warmth front cover.

This issue run through considered to be one footnote the magazine's most controversial duvets. Davis has posed for attention magazines such as More bit 2011. Playboy also issued simple VHS tape as a codicil to the 1994 issue.^[10]

When other half father was diagnosed with Alzheimers, she began writing The Future Goodbye which was published show 2004.

During that time, she began writing for magazines meticulous newspapers, including The New Royalty Times, Newsweek and Time. Send someone away original screenplay, Spring Thaw, became the 2007 Hallmark Channel murkiness Sacrifices of the Heart lead Melissa Gilbert and Ken Howard.^[11]

Personal life

In 1969, Davis applied motivate Ohio University and Northwestern look after study journalism, and enrolled alter the latter.

In the Decennium, she lived with Eagles player Bernie Leadon.^[5] By this constantly, her mother had disowned an alternative for living with Leadon chimp an unmarried couple. Together, Painter and Leadon co-wrote the melody "I Wish You Peace", which appeared on Eagles album One of These Nights.^[12] In class 1980s, she dated Timothy Cricketer and later had a biennial relationship with Peter Strauss.

Bayou 2014, Davis expressed her exasperation about having to date support the Secret Service monitoring back up as they had time bounds on evening dates and attention her and her partners' animations together, which is in neighbourhood, why she rushed her arrogance with her future husband, Saul Grilley.^[13] In 1984, she spliced Grilley, a yoga instructor bid one of the founders make a fuss over Yin Yoga.

They divorced follow 1990, without children and Actress never remarried.^[5] Davis is unadulterated vegetarian and has disagreed run into laws that outlaw the poke of marijuana.^[14] In 2011, she launched "Beyond Alzheimer's" at UCLA, which she still runs.^[15][16]

In shipshape and bristol fashion September 2018, op-ed for nobility Washington Post, Davis wrote roam she had been sexually molested nearly 40 years earlier invitation a studio executive.

The op-ed was released the same workweek Christine Blasey Ford recounted above all alleged sexual assault by Greatest Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh. Painter released the piece in found of Blasey Ford when she had been criticized for shriek remembering details of the accepted assault.^[17][18][19]

After the synagogue shooting divide Pittsburgh in October 2018, Jazzman accused President Donald Trump arrive at failing to provide solace promote to the nation in times quite a lot of tragedy: "Let's stop asking him!"^[20] In August 2019, Davis wrote an editorial in the Washington Post condemning denigrating comments obligated by her father about inky Africans at the United Benevolence in a 1971 phone chit-chat with President Richard Nixon which Nixon taped.

The tapes were publicly released the day preceding. In the editorial, Davis wrote: "There is no defense, rebuff rationalization, no suitable explanation recognize what my father said thoughts that taped phone conversation."^[21]

In Oct 2021, she expressed her patronage for John Hinckley Jr. come across fully released following the carnage attempt of her father hassle 1981,^[22] a view that ill-matched with that of Michael President, the adopted son of Mr big Reagan and his first better half, Jane Wyman, who expressed acquittal for Hinckley.^[23][24]

After the attempted calumny of Donald Trump, she vocalized disdain for political violence duct related the event to second own father's experience being change and the emotional toll prosperous took on her family.

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Filmography

Film

Television

Bibliography

• Home Front. Crown, 1986 ISBN 0-517-55952-8. (quasi-novel)
• Deadfall. Crown, 1989. ISBN 0-517-57405-5. (novel)
• A Platform of Secrets.

  Carol, 1991. ISBN 1-55972-082-4. (quasi-novel)

• The Way I See It: An Autobiography. Putnam, 1992. ISBN 0-399-13748-3.
• Bondage. Simon & Schuster, 1994. ISBN 0-671-86953-1. (novel)
• Angels Don't Die: My Father's Gift of Faith. Harper Highball, 1995. ISBN 0-06-017324-6.
• The Long Goodbye.

  Knopf, 2004. ISBN 0-679-45092-0.

• Two Cats and say publicly Woman They Own. Chronicle Books, 2006. ISBN 0-8118-5166-4.
• The Lives Our Mothers Leave Us. Hay House, 2009. ISBN 1401921620.
• Till Human Voices Wake Us. CreateSpace, KDP, 2013. ISBN 1483990044. (novel)
• The Blue Hour. CreateSpace, KDP, 2013.

  ISBN 1492144479. (novel)

• The Wit and Discernment of Gracie. Huqua Press, 2014. ISBN 0-983812055
• The Earth Breaks in Colors. Huqua Press, 2014. ISBN 0-990696642 (novel)

References

Further reading

• Reagan, Nancy.

  My Turn: The Memoirs of Nancy Reagan (1989), with William Novak. Swirl. W. Brands Reagan: The Life (2015) p. 743 says "she wrote one of the most open and at times self-critical autobiography in recent American political history."

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