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Pat Ast in Reform School Girls (1986)

Biography

Pat Ast

Overview

  • Born
    October 21, 1941 · Brooklyn, New York, USA
  • Died
    October 3, 2001 · West Hollywood, California, USA (diabetes complications)
  • Height
    6′ 2½″ (1.89 m)

Biography

  • Pat was a native New Yorker who worked as a receptionist and clerk in a box factory. She met Andy Warhol later and starred in his film "Heat" with Joe Dallesandro and Sylvia Miles. Later she met a fashion designer, Roy Halston and worked in his Madison Avenue store. From there, she decided to move to Los Angeles in the mid-1970s and appeared in such films as "Reform School Girls", "The Incredible Shrinking Woman", and "Foul Play".
    - IMDb mini biography by: Anonymous

Trademarks

  • Catlike eyes
  • Flowery voice
  • Statuesque, model-like figure and brawny physique

Trivia

  • Hired for the Broadway musical "Nine", but was fired by Tommy Tune after 3 months for "trying to take over the show".
  • Her father was a comic who performed in the Catskills.
  • She met Halston at a party in New York, which led to a friendship, a job in his store on Madison Avenue, and a job as one of his models (in spite of the fact she weighed 210 pounds).
  • Pat attended Erasmus High School in Brooklyn, New York. She and Barbra Streisand were classmates, graduating the same year.
  • Was a good friend of the late Berry Berenson who died in the 9-11 tragedy. Berenson was planning Ast's 60th birthday party, which, sadly, neither would live to see.

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