Content deleted Content added
No edit summary Tags: Reverted Mobile edit Mobile web edit Disambiguation links added |
Tags: Reverted Mobile edit Mobile web edit |
||
Line 26:
==Early life==
Patrick<ref name="TV_Guide"/> was born in [[
He did not start to pursue an acting career until his mid-twenties. During his childhood, he did not like to act; in third grade, he refused to wear a pair of green tights required for ''[[Peter Pan]]''.<ref name=allmovie/> He graduated from Farmington High School in [[Farmington, Michigan]] in 1977. He was a track and field and football athlete at [[Bowling Green State University]]. He dropped out before graduating when he found an interest in drama and acting.<ref name="TV_Guide"/> After leaving college, Patrick worked as a house painter and continued as such until a boating accident in 1984 in [[Lake Erie]].<ref name=allmovie/> He swam for three hours in order to save others still stranded on the accident site, and nearly drowned in doing so.<ref name="TV_Guide">{{cite magazine |url=http://www.tvguide.com/celebrities/robert-patrick/bio/172325 | title=Robert Patrick: Biography | magazine=TV Guide | access-date=August 21, 2009 }}</ref> After the accident, he moved to [[Los Angeles]] at age 26.
|