Patti D'Arbanville Movies and Career Information

Patricia "Patti" D'Arbanville (born May 25, 1951) is an American actress and former model. D'Arbanville, born May 25, 1951 in New York City, New York, is the daughter of Jean (née Egan), an artist, and George D'Arbanville, a bartender, and attended PS 41 on Eleventh Street. Growing up on the corner of McDougal Street and Bleecker Street, she found the Figaro, a club that was just across from her home. After asking permission to "stay out until midnight", not having any real expectations, she was surprised to find she was permitted to go because of its proximity to her home. The result, she said, was that she did it every night, and then stretched the time limit to 1:00 AM. Because of this, she fell asleep in school to the point where she finally quit when she was 14 after threats that if she didn't come more often she'd be taken away from her parents. She acted in her first film in 1960 at age 8; a New York University student film about a girl and her cat Tuesday And Blue Silk. Andy Warhol discovered her during a gig as a club disc jockey at age 13, and cast her at age 16 in his 1968 film Flesh. In the late 1960s she pursued a career as a model in London, where she met Cat Stevens