Once upon a time a girl was born to a couple of middle-class Detroit suburbanites.  They named her Patricia.  She had an inquisitive mind and an adventurous spirit.  Walking next door before the age of two, without anyone knowing resulted in a missed step –lip to the cement kiss that brought cries for rescue. Climbing trees and falling out of them, swinging like Tarzan and crashing…became an early childhood theme that shadows her every move.  If there were some way to defy gravity, physically or emotionally Patricia would attempt it even if it meant disaster.  Such was how the soil was prepared for her to follow the ACTING sprout planted in third grade when she played a large yellow cardboard bell in the Christmas pageant.

In college Patricia acted on stage and in local commercials in rural Michigan.  Detroit offered more opportunities for radio and on-camera commercials and after graduating with a Bachelor of Fine Arts in Theatre, Summa Cum Laude, she ventured for warmer pavement in Los Angeles to pursue acting on a larger scale.  Within six months she landed several commercials and the co-starring role of Stephen Furst’s, (Animal House) girlfriend LUCILLE, the obnoxious spoiled princess in the Buena Vista release, MIDNIGHT MADNESS and to this day remains close friends with many members of the cast.  Within a year of that performance Patricia introduced the character of APRIL, an unwed mother on THE YOUNG and the RESTLESS opposite David Hasselhoff, (Bay Watch) and appeared as a special guest in the sitcoms, ANGIE, EIGHT IS ENOUGH, and later in two episodes of REMINGTON STEELE.  David Hasselhoff turned up again when she played opposite him in the slasher film, GHOST DANCE, as the office assistant who shares a dalliance with David in a stage coach only to be stabbed to death by an Indian ghost in the museum….ah acting at its finest.

Voice-over work included many industrial films, commercials, children’s book narrations, and cartoons such as BATMAN,  SNORKS and YOGI BEAR where she was lucky to work with and or be directed by Sue Blu, Andrea Romano and Helen Hunt’s wonderful father, Gordon over at Hanna-Barbera Animation Studios.  The role of PIZZAZZ in JEM and the HOLOGRAMS came naturally.  “I was so hungry, thirsty and tired at the audition…when I opened my mouth all I had left was venom for poor Wally [Burr the director].”

An artist at heart, Patricia enjoys watercolor painting, has ghost-written and published, articles, short biographies, several chapbooks of poetry, co-authored WINDEYES, a WOMAN’S READER and WRITING SOURCE (Plain View Press) and taught the creative process for writers through her BEYOND IMAGINATION workshops.

Patricia shares a humble home in Nashville, Tennessee with a bunch of chiggers and homegrown kale along with her highly supportive and talented singer-songwriter husband, Bruce Michael Miller and their teenaged son, Forest Miller, is also a gifted violinist/bassist, singer-songwriter/performer. (Check him out at on youtube and at www.forestmiller.com)               To contact Patricia:  pizzazzrocks@gmail.com