Patricia Hamilton is a Canadian actress, perhaps best known as "Rachel Lynde" in Anne of Green Gables

Anne of Green Gables (1985 film)

Anne of Green Gables is a 1985 television movie based on the novel of the same name by Canadian author Lucy Maud Montgomery. The film was produced and directed by Kevin Sullivan for the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation. It was released theatrically in Israel, Europe and Japan.The film aired on...

, its sequels: Anne of Green Gables: The Sequel

Anne of Avonlea (1987 film)

Anne of Avonlea is a 1987 television film. It is a sequel to the 1985 Anne of Green Gables film. The film dramatizes material from several books in the eight-novel "Anne" series by L. M. Montgomery; they are Anne of Avonlea , Anne of the Island and Anne of Windy Poplars...

, Anne of Green Gables: The Continuing Story

Anne of Green Gables: The Continuing Story

Anne of Green Gables: The Continuing Story was a 2000 television mini-series that was highly anticipated among fans of Anne of Green Gables. It borrowed characters from the Anne of Green Gables novels by Lucy Maud Montgomery but not actual plot lines. Instead it served as a sequel to two...

, and Anne of Green Gables: A New Beginning

Anne of Green Gables: A New Beginning

Anne of Green Gables: A New Beginning is the fourth film in the Anne of Green Gables film series. It was released as a television film in 2008 on CTV. Before the broadcast, CTV had recently acquired the rights to the entire Anne catalogue including the 1985 miniseries.The film stars 14-year-old...

(in an uncredited role) and several Anne of Green Gables related films (such as Road to Avonlea

Road to Avonlea

Road to Avonlea was a television series which was first broadcast in Canada and the United States between 1990 and 1996. It was created by Kevin Sullivan and produced by Sullivan Films in association with CBC and the Disney Channel, with additional funding from Telefilm Canada.It was adapted from...

). She was nominated for a Gemini Award

Gemini Award

The Gemini Awards are annual television broadcasting industry awards in Canada.First awarded in 1986, the Geminis celebrate the achievements of TV members of the Academy of Canadian Cinema & Television. Essentially, it presents awards for the best television productions in Canada. Awards are...

 for Best Performance by an Actress in a Supporting Role in a Dramatic Series three times, winning in 1996.

Biography

Hamilton attended Pittsburgh's Carnegie Tech She was also part of Tarragon Theatre

Tarragon Theatre

The Tarragon Theatre is a theatre in Toronto, Canada, and one of the main centers for contemporary playwriting in the country. Located near Casa Loma, the theatre was founded by Bill and Jane Glassco in 1970. Bill was the Artistic Director from 1971 to 1982. In 1982, Urjo Kareda took over as...

's inaugural season in 1971.

In November 2008, Hamilton starred in the Harold Green Jewish Theatre

Harold Green Jewish Theatre

The Harold Green Jewish Theatre is a professional theater company in Toronto, Canada. The artistic directors are David Eisner and Avery Saltzman.The theatre was founded in 2006 with a mandate to "illuminate humanity through a Jewish perspective."...

 production of Kindertransport

Kindertransport (play)

Kindertransport is a play by Diane Samuels, which examines the life, during World War II and afterwards, of a Kindertransport child. Though fictitious, it is based upon many real kinder stories...

in Toronto.

Personal life

She married Leslie "Les" Carlson; their son Ben, who graduated from theatre school; he appears in Anne of Green Gables: A New Beginning

Anne of Green Gables: A New Beginning

Anne of Green Gables: A New Beginning is the fourth film in the Anne of Green Gables film series. It was released as a television film in 2008 on CTV. Before the broadcast, CTV had recently acquired the rights to the entire Anne catalogue including the 1985 miniseries.The film stars 14-year-old...

as Walter Shirley. Les and Patricia eventually divorced.

Filmography

Year	Title	Role	Notes
1970	No, That's Me Over Here!		Episode: "3.13"
1971	Hine	Miss Tarrant	3 episodes
1971	Doctor at Large	Mrs. Hunter	Episode: "Mr. Moon"
1972	Upstairs, Downstairs Upstairs, Downstairs Upstairs, Downstairs is a British drama television series originally produced by London Weekend Television and revived by the BBC. It ran on ITV in 68 episodes divided into five series from 1971 to 1975, and a sixth series shown on the BBC on three consecutive nights, 26–28 December 2010.Set in a...	Mrs. Fellows	Episode: "I Dies from Love I Dies from Love I Dies from Love was the seventh episode of the first series of the British television series, Upstairs, Downstairs. The episode is set in the summer of 1907.-Cast:Guest cast*Aimée Delamain *Yolande Turner... "
1972	The House Without a Christmas Tree The House Without a Christmas Tree The House Without a Christmas Tree is a 1972 television movie, based on a children's book by Gail Rock, that centers on the relationship between Addie Mills , a bright and energetic only child, and her melancholy father, James Mills...	Narrator (uncredited)	TV movie
1972	The Fenn Street Gang The Fenn Street Gang The Fenn Street Gang is a British television sitcom which ran for three seasons between 1971 and 1973. The series was created by John Esmonde and Bob Larbey, it was spun-off from their Please Sir! series, and followed the lives of many of the pupils from Fenn Street School as they entered the...	Policewoman Mrs. Thrupp	Episode: "From Sudbury with Love" Episode: "The Lady with the Lamp"
1973	The Fenn Street Gang	Mrs. Dobell	Episode: "An Englishman's Home"
1973	The Upper Crusts	Miss Thoroughgood	Episode: "Decline and Fall"
1973	The Thanksgiving Treasure	Narrator - Addie as an adult	TV movie
1974	The ABC Afternoon Playbreak The ABC Afternoon Playbreak The ABC Afternoon Playbreak is an American television anthology series that was broadcast on ABC from 1973 to 1975. The ninety-minute dramas aired once a month and featured some of the more popular television and film stars of the 1970s .-Episodes:Season 1#"The Things I Never Said" #"A...	Rebecca Glover	Episode: "Last Bride of Salem"
1974	Doctor at Sea Doctor at Sea (TV series) Doctor at Sea is a British television comedy series based on a set of books by Richard Gordon about the misadventures of Doctors at sea. The series follows directly from its predecessor Doctor in Charge, and was produced by London Weekend Television in 1974.Writers for the Doctor at Sea episodes...	Cecilia Tranmere	Episode: "Oh I Do Like to Be Beside the Sea Sick" Episode: "A Wolf in Ship's Clothing"
1974	Why Rock the Boat?	Hilda
1975	Edward the King	Mrs. Lilley	Episode: "The Boy"
1975	Village Hall	Miss Browning	Episode: "Old Scores"
1976	Goldenrod	Mrs. Gunderson
1977	Who Has Seen the Wind	Miss MacDonald
1980	Middle Age Crazy	Barbara Pickett
1981	My Bloody Valentine My Bloody Valentine (film) My Bloody Valentine is a 1981 Canadian slasher film released in the wake of the popularity of the slasher genre that had overtaken the 1970s...	Mabel Osborne
1983	Hangin' In Hangin' In Hangin' In is a Canadian television sitcom which aired on CBC from 1981 to 1987. It also aired briefly in syndication in the United States. Canadian producer Jack Humphrey developed Hangin' In and served as executive producer for the show.-Synopsis:...	Mrs. Holitski	Episode: "The Hero"
1984	When We First Met		TV movie
1984	Heartsounds Heartsounds Heartsounds is an autobiographical book written by Martha Weinman Lear and first published in 1980 by Simon and Schuster....	Flo	TV movie
1985	Love & Larceny	Florida G. Blythe	TV movie
1985	Night Heat Night Heat Night Heat is a Canadian police drama series, which aired on CTV from 1985 to 1991. The show also aired on CBS in the United States from 1987 to 1993 and was the first Canadian-produced drama series to air on an American network...	Millie	Episode: "Crossfire"
1985	The Last Polka The Last Polka The Last Polka is a 1985 comedy television film, and one of the first Mockumentaries. It was written by and starred John Candy and Eugene Levy, and directed by John Blanchard....	Mrs. Vicki Mahoney-Cohen	TV movie
1985	Anne of Green Gables Anne of Green Gables (1985 film) Anne of Green Gables is a 1985 television movie based on the novel of the same name by Canadian author Lucy Maud Montgomery. The film was produced and directed by Kevin Sullivan for the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation. It was released theatrically in Israel, Europe and Japan.The film aired on...	Rachel Lynde	TV movie
1986	Connection
1986	The Lawrenceville Stories	Mrs. Conover	TV mini-series
1987	American Playhouse American Playhouse American Playhouse is an anthology television series periodically broadcast by Public Broadcasting Service in the United States.It premiered on January 12, 1982 with The Shady Hill Kidnapping, written and narrated by John Cheever and directed by Paul Bogart...	Mrs. Conover	Episode: "The Prodigious Hickey"
1987	Really Weird Tales	Assessor	TV movie
1987	Alfred Hitchcock Presents The New Alfred Hitchcock Presents The New Alfred Hitchcock Presents is an American anthology series that aired on NBC from 1985 to 1986, and on the USA Network from 1987 to 1989...	Mrs. Greysome	Episode: "The Impatient Patient"
1987	Fight for Life Fight for Life (film) Fight For Life was a television film produced in 1986 and broadcast on March 23, 1987 on the ABC Television Network.-Plot:Dr Bernard Abrams , an Ohio optometrist, and his wife Shirley Abrams have a six-year old daughter that suffers from a rare form of epilepsy. The child's paraplegic doctor ...		TV movie
1987	Air Waves	Kate	Episode: "A Second Look"
1987	Anne of Avonlea Anne of Avonlea (1987 film) Anne of Avonlea is a 1987 television film. It is a sequel to the 1985 Anne of Green Gables film. The film dramatizes material from several books in the eight-novel "Anne" series by L. M. Montgomery; they are Anne of Avonlea , Anne of the Island and Anne of Windy Poplars...	Rachel Lynde	TV movie
1987	Echoes in the Darkness Echoes in the Darkness Echoes in the Darkness is the title of a 1987 book by crime writer Joseph Wambaugh which also became a made-for-TV movie the same year. The book details the lurid tale of the murder of Pennsylvania's Upper Merion Area High School English teacher Susan Reinert and her two children in 1979. The...	Dorothy Hunsberger	TV movie
1987	Friday the 13th Friday the 13th: The Series Friday the 13th: The Series is an American-Canadian horror television series that ran for three seasons, from October 3, 1987 to May 26, 1990 in first-run syndication....	Sadie King	Episode: "Shadow Boxer"
1988	Blades of Courage		TV movie
1988	Chasing Rainbows	Miss Kidd	TV mini-series
1988	Check It Out!	Mrs. Kelbo	Episode: "My Hero, Mr. Bannister"
1988	The Christmas Wife	Dora	TV movie
1988	Screwball Hotel Screwball hotel Screwball Hotel is a 1988 American and British comedy film directed by Rafal Zielinski.-DVD release:Universal Studios has yet to announce any plans to release the film onto either DVD or Blu-Ray.-Cast:*Michael Bendetti.....Mike...	Chastity
1990	Street Legal Street Legal (TV series) Street Legal is a Canadian television series, which aired on CBC Television from 1987 to 1994.-Synopsis:A spinoff from the 1985 television movie Shellgame, Street Legal focused on the professional and private lives of the partners in a small Toronto, Ontario law firm, Barr, Robinovitch and Tchobanian...	Grace Whitney	Episode: "Security Exchange"
1990	In Defense of a Married Man	Eileen Lloyd	TV movie
1990–1996	Road to Avonlea Road to Avonlea Road to Avonlea was a television series which was first broadcast in Canada and the United States between 1990 and 1996. It was created by Kevin Sullivan and produced by Sullivan Films in association with CBC and the Disney Channel, with additional funding from Telefilm Canada.It was adapted from...	Rachel Lynde	30 episodes
1996	Holiday Affair	Susan Ennis	TV movie
1997	When Secrets Kill	Eliza Emery	TV movie
1998	Traders Traders (TV series) Traders is a Canadian television drama series, which was broadcast on Global Television Network from 1995 to 2000.-Overview:Although Global had locked up most of NBC's "Must See Thursday" situation comedies for their Thursday night broadcasts, they lost the rights to broadcast the medical drama ER...	Ambassador	Episode: "Boom"
1998	An Avonlea Christmas	Rachel Lynde	TV movie
2000	Anne of Green Gables: The Continuing Story Anne of Green Gables: The Continuing Story Anne of Green Gables: The Continuing Story was a 2000 television mini-series that was highly anticipated among fans of Anne of Green Gables. It borrowed characters from the Anne of Green Gables novels by Lucy Maud Montgomery but not actual plot lines. Instead it served as a sequel to two...	Rachel Lynde	TV movie
2005	Anne: Journey to Green Gables	Rachel Lynde (voice)	Video
2008	Anne of Green Gables: A New Beginning Anne of Green Gables: A New Beginning Anne of Green Gables: A New Beginning is the fourth film in the Anne of Green Gables film series. It was released as a television film in 2008 on CTV. Before the broadcast, CTV had recently acquired the rights to the entire Anne catalogue including the 1985 miniseries.The film stars 14-year-old...	Rachel Lynde	TV movie

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