Patricia Heaton

While Heaton has been quoted as saying "...once a Catholic, always a Catholic...", according to her book and following interviews, she currently attends a Presbyterian church. The Station Agent, Me Without You), but none have been great commercial successes. Since 2003, Heaton has appeared in a series of humorous television and radio commercials as spokesperson for the Albertsons grocery store chain. She has been in a half-dozen subsequent films, some of them well-reviewed (e.g. She also had a brief marriage (84-87) that ended in divorce. Arlene developed a crush on the President but when she and Betsy saw the real Nixon--mean, foul-mouthed, and scheming--they turned to Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein to tell the real story of what was going on in the White House, becoming their source "Deep Throat". Though very well reviewed, the film was a flop at the box office, making back less than half its production costs. The couple has four sons and divides their time between Los Angeles and England, where they own a country estate. Nixon directed by Andrew Fleming in which she and her friend Betsy (Kirsten Dunst) stumbled onto the Watergate burglary, became the president's dog walkers, and fed Nixon, Henry Kissinger, and Leonid Brezhnev pot brownies.

Heaton has been married to British businessman David Hunt II since 1990. Her first starring role in films was as Arlene in Dick (1999), a satire on Richard M. Her memoir, Motherhood and Hollywood - How to Get a Job Like Mine, was published by Villard Books in 2002. The show would run for six seasons, from 1998 to 2003. This nonsectarian, nonpartisan organization is opposed to domestic violence, child abuse, infanticide, and abortion. Jen was everything her grandmother was not: jaded, cynical, irreligious, and more, leading to frequent arguments and her eventually being kicked out of the house. Heaton is a pro-life activist and is the honorary chairperson of Feminists for Life. On Dawson's Creek, her character, only fifteen, had been too much for her parents to handle, drinking, partying, having sex from age twelve, so she was exiled from her home in New York, New York to live in Capeside, Massachusetts with her maternal grandmother.

Her feature films include Memoirs of an Invisible Man, Beethoven, and Space Jam. She won several small roles before she was cast as Jen Lindley on Dawson's Creek, the part that would make her a star. Heaton's made-for-television movies include Shattered Dreams, Miracle in the Woods, A Town Without Christmas, and the remake of Neil Simon's The Goodbye Girl with Jeff Daniels for TNT. She graduated from high school at fifteen and was emancipated from her parents so she could pursue an acting career. She has also collected two Viewers for Quality Television awards and a Screen Actors Guild trophy for her work on the series. Her mother took her to auditions in Los Angeles where she won her first film role, as a space alien who turned into Natasha Henstridge in the 1995 movie Species. Since 1999, she has been nominated every year for an Outstanding Lead Actress in a Comedy Series Emmy, winning the award twice. When she was nine, her family moved to San Diego, California.

She was featured in three unsuccessful sitcoms - Room for Two (1992) with Linda Lavin, Someone Like Me (1994), and Women of the House (1995) with Delta Burke - before landing the plum role of beleagured wife, mother, and in-law Debra Barone in Everybody Loves Raymond (1996 - 2004) with Ray Romano. Born in Kalispell, Montana, she is the eldest of the five children of Larry, a commodities broker, and Carla Williams, a homemaker. When they brought one of their productions to Los Angeles, Heaton caught the eye of a casting director for the ABC drama thirtysomething, leading to three appearances on the series. Michelle Ingrid Williams (born September 9, 1980) is an American actress best known as Jen Lindley on Dawson's Creek.. She made her Broadway debut in the musical Don't Get God Started, after which she and fellow students created Stage Three, an off-Broadway acting troupe. She moved to New York City to study with drama teacher William Esper after graduating from Ohio State University.

She was born in Bay Village, a suburb of Cleveland, Ohio, the daughter of well-known Cleveland Plain Dealer sportswriter Chuck Heaton. Patricia Heaton (born March 4, 1958) is an American actress best-known for co-starring as the wife of the title character in the CBS comedy series Everybody Loves Raymond.