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==Early life==
Patrick<ref name="TV_Guide"/> was born in [[Georgia (U.S. state)|Georgia]] on November 5, 1958,<ref name=allmovie>{{cite web|url=https://www.allmovie.com/artist/robert-patrick-p105784|title=Robert Patrick|work=[[AllMovie]]|access-date=February 13, 2018}}</ref> and raised there, as well as in Boston, Massachusetts, Dayton, Ohio, Detroit, Michigan, and Bay Village, Ohio. He is the eldest of five children born to Nadine and Robert M. Patrick, and is of [[Scotch-Irish Americans|Scots-Irish]] and [[English people|English]] descent.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.tvguide.com/celebrities/robert-patrick/bio/172325|title=Robert Patrick|work=TVGuide.com|access-date=March 4, 2016}}</ref>
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.
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