Patrick Reynolds starred in the action-adventure-sci-fi feature Eliminators and appeared in numerous TV shows and other films. What's less known is that he's a grandson of the tobacco company founder, RJ Reynolds, makers of Camel and Winston cigarettes, but after his father died from smoking, Mr. Reynolds spoke out publicly against Big Tobacco in Congress. His 1986 testimony was reported by news media around the globe, and Patrick took up the flag as a champion of a tobacco free society, and has campaigned for a smoke-free America in the years which followed. In 2015, President Obama and the White House presented him with the Lifetime Achievement Award. Prior to acting the lead role in the feature Eliminators in 1986, Mr. Reynolds performed supporting parts in films like Nashville and Buffalo Bill and the Indians for director Robert Altman; he played a Hare Krishna in Airplane, and appeared in Hair for Milos Forman. He played a war correspondent and John Huston's aide in the film The Greatest Battle, which also starred Henry Fonda and Stacy Keach. Patrick also acted a role in Xanadu, with Olivia Newton John. "The live anti-tobacco talks I give amount to giving a 45 minute actor's monologue," Reynolds says. "It's the same talk every time, and every word has to sound spontaneous and be emotionally on point in front of large audiences. In sum, I am ready to act at any time, and would be especially pleased to play character roles. I'm a chameleon, capable of flawless European and Asian accents, do excellent voiceover and more. I speak fluent French, and good Spanish and German."Patrick's TV appearances include two critically acclaimed short stories for PBS: F. Scott Fitzgerald's Bernice Bobs Her Hair and William Faulkner's A Rose for Emily, which starred Angelica Huston. Reynolds also created Bullet Head, an odd-voiced bald character, for the Tony Randall Show. He also acted parts in other TV series, including Operation Petticoat, Civil Wars, Santa Barbara and more. After several callbacks for the role of Captain Pickard on Star Trek: Next Generation, the role would go either to Patrick or to another Patrick, Patrick Stewart, who was chosen. Mr. Reynolds' stage appearances include singing the lead roles in two Gilbert and Sullivan operettas: Ko Ko in The Mikado and Sir Joseph in Pinnafore. He performed in YMCA, an ensemble, off-Broadway show by Rado and Ragny, creators of Hair; and he acted the role of Earnest in The Importance of Being Earnest. Reynolds began acting after attending film school at UCLA and USC, and directing a documentary of Berkeley, which won a prize at the Cannes Film Festival in 1970. When he decided to start acting in 1974, he studied with Lee Strasberg personally in his Master Class at The Strasberg Institute. Patrick then studied at the Justin Smith Studio, and for two years, took voice and singing lessons from the Eagles coach, Arthur Joseph. Later he recorded three singles written by Harry Nilsson, and produced by Beach Boys producer Van Dyke Parks. After studying in a private class led by acting coach Igor Dimont of the Moscow Art School, Patrick studied for two years at the Charles Conrad Studio. This was followed by a year of training with Peggy Feury, where Jeff Goldblum was a classmate. Reynolds next studied for two years in Bill Sorrells' class at Milton Katselas, where classmates included Michelle Pfeiffer and Patrick Swayze. Mr. Reynolds also co-authored a colorful family biography about his RJ Reynolds family, which he hopes to sell to TV. After the William Morris Agency packaged Patrick together with author Tom Shachtman, they co-authored The Gilded Leaf: Three Generations of the RJ Reynolds Family and Fortune. The book was published to critical acclaim by Little Brown in 1989. Info on The Gilded Leaf may be found at Tobaccofree.org/book/. In 2007, Patrick married Alexandra Olympios, his second wife. They live in Los Angeles and have a son, born in 2009.
早年经历President of the Foundation for a Smokefree America. [1998]
