Patrice Martinez (June 12, 1963 – December 24, 2018) was an American actress. She received her theatrical education in London, played the role of Carmen in the film Three Amigos, and starred in the early 1990s television series Zorro.[2]
Life and career
Martinez was born in Albuquerque, New Mexico. As a child, she performed in a local theater. She started her screen career as a teenager, working as an extra in the film Convoy, directed by Sam Peckinpah. After high school, when she was 18, she moved from Albuquerque to study at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art (RADA) in London.[3]
She returned to the United States and soon moved to Los Angeles, California, where she gained her first film experience in A Walk on the Moon. She appeared in Three Amigos in 1986 and later accepted a role on Magnum, P.I. with Tom Selleck, portraying Linda Lee Ellison in season 7 ("Forty") and season 8 (the series conclusion, "Resolutions", episodes 12 & 13).[citation needed] After that, she portrayed Victoria Escalante in Zorro[4] and appeared in Beetlejuice (as the very popular character Miss Argentina), The Effects of Magic and Vital Signs.[citation needed]
Martinez has two sisters, Benita Andre, who looks like her but is two years younger, and Maria Abre. Benita was also cast in Three Amigos.[3]
From 1987-1992, Martinez was married to producer-director Daniel Camhi,[5] and was credited as "Patrice Camhi" in the first two seasons of Zorro. Martinez and Camhi divorced, so she appeared as Patrice Martinez from Season 3 onward.
Death
Martinez died on December 24, 2018, at her home in Burbank, California, after a long illness.[6]
^Terrace, Vincent (2011). Encyclopedia of Television Shows, 1925 through 2010 (2nd ed.). Jefferson, N.C.: McFarland & Company, Inc., Publishers. p. 1214. ISBN978-0-7864-6477-7.
^"Patricia Martinez, 55". Classic Images (525): 42. March 2019.
