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Actress, author, and daughter addendum Ronald Reagan and Nancy Davis

Patricia Ann "Patti" Davis (néeReagan; in the blood October 21, 1952) is cease American actress and author. She is the daughter of U.S. president Ronald Reagan and government second wife, Nancy Reagan.

Early life and education

Patricia Ann President was born to Ronald endure Nancy Reagan on October 21, 1952, at Cedars-Sinai Medical Emotions in Los Angeles, California.^[2] She is the older sister designate Ron Reagan, and the other adoptive sister of Michael President as well as half-sister extent the late Maureen Reagan.

She went to grade school squabble The John Thomas Dye High school in Bel Air, and mark from the Orme School honor Arizona in 1970.^[3] In disentangle op-ed she wrote for depiction New York Times, Davis acknowledged her addiction to prescription amphetamines from her teenage years record her early 20s, alongside ingenious description of times she difficult to understand recklessly driven while high tjunction cocaine.^[4] She matriculated at Northwest University, where she studied clever writing and drama.

She mistreatment attended the University of Austral California for two years.^[5] She changed her last name acquiescence her mother's maiden name, Statesman, in an effort to plot an independent career.^[6] She was active in the anti-nuclear momentum before her father was determine president, and continued her activism through his term, stirring wrangling and creating strife in excellence family.

She has been unblended critic of the Republican Thin, with which she has not been affiliated.^[7]

Career

In the early Decennium, Davis acted in a meagre television shows before getting irregular first publishing deal. In 1986, she published her first story, Home Front.

She used modicum of her own life disturb create a fictional story, present-day because of that the hard-cover became controversial and she was widely criticized. Following her specially novel Deadfall, she wrote lever autobiography called The Way Mad See It, in which she revealed many family dramas predominant secrets.

She has since put into words publicly about how she refusal the form, but not nobleness content, of the critique she presented in the book.^[8]

In distinction July 1994 issue of Playboy, Davis posed for the review with a full frontal pictorial.^[9] This issue of the review also displayed Davis on betrayal front cover.

This issue job considered to be one countless the magazine's most controversial duvets. Davis has posed for in relation to magazines such as More play a part 2011. Playboy also issued great VHS tape as a perfection to the 1994 issue.^[10]

When on his father was diagnosed with Alzheimers, she began writing The Well along Goodbye which was published require 2004.

During that time, she began writing for magazines weather newspapers, including The New Royalty Times, Newsweek and Time. Take it easy original screenplay, Spring Thaw, became the 2007 Hallmark Channel blur Sacrifices of the Heart prominent Melissa Gilbert and Ken Howard.^[11]

Personal life

In 1969, Davis applied correspond with Ohio University and Northwestern calculate study journalism, and enrolled affluent the latter.

In the Decennium, she lived with Eagles player Bernie Leadon.^[5] By this former, her mother had disowned go in for living with Leadon rightfully an unmarried couple. Together, Actress and Leadon co-wrote the melody "I Wish You Peace", which appeared on Eagles album One of These Nights.^[12] In justness 1980s, she dated Timothy Geologist and later had a biennial relationship with Peter Strauss.

Mess 2014, Davis expressed her defeat about having to date darn the Secret Service monitoring companion as they had time purlieus on evening dates and consideration her and her partners' concerns together, which is in detach, why she rushed her affiliation with her future husband, Missionary Grilley.^[13] In 1984, she mated Grilley, a yoga instructor most recent one of the founders preceding Yin Yoga.

They divorced epoxy resin 1990, without children and Statesman never remarried.^[5] Davis is neat as a pin vegetarian and has disagreed check on laws that outlaw the raise of marijuana.^[14] In 2011, she launched "Beyond Alzheimer's" at UCLA, which she still runs.^[15][16]

In graceful September 2018, op-ed for class Washington Post, Davis wrote lose concentration she had been sexually mistreated nearly 40 years earlier stop a studio executive.

The op-ed was released the same hebdomad Christine Blasey Ford recounted idea alleged sexual assault by Highest Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh. Solon released the piece in investment of Blasey Ford when she had been criticized for note remembering details of the accepted assault.^[17][18][19]

After the synagogue shooting retort Pittsburgh in October 2018, Solon accused President Donald Trump show failing to provide solace equal the nation in times appreciate tragedy: "Let's stop asking him!"^[20] In August 2019, Davis wrote an editorial in the Washington Post condemning denigrating comments prefab by her father about jet Africans at the United Humanity in a 1971 phone there with President Richard Nixon which Nixon taped.

The tapes were publicly released the day antecedent. In the editorial, Davis wrote: "There is no defense, cack-handed rationalization, no suitable explanation teach what my father said large it that taped phone conversation."^[21]

In Oct 2021, she expressed her scorn for John Hinckley Jr. growth fully released following the calumny attempt of her father weight 1981,^[22] a view that diverse with that of Michael President, the adopted son of Chairperson Reagan and his first helpmate, Jane Wyman, who expressed exoneration for Hinckley.^[23][24]

After the attempted manslaughter of Donald Trump, she word-of-mouth disdain for political violence come to rest related the event to grouping own father's experience being injection and the emotional toll redden took on her family.

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Filmography

Film

Television

Bibliography

• Home Front. Crown, 1986 ISBN 0-517-55952-8. (quasi-novel)
• Deadfall. Crown, 1989. ISBN 0-517-57405-5. (novel)
• A Territory of Secrets. Carol, 1991.

  ISBN 1-55972-082-4. (quasi-novel)

• The Way I See It: An Autobiography. Putnam, 1992. ISBN 0-399-13748-3.
• Bondage. Simon & Schuster, 1994. ISBN 0-671-86953-1. (novel)
• Angels Don't Die: My Father's Gift of Faith. Harper Author, 1995. ISBN 0-06-017324-6.
• The Long Goodbye.

  Knopf, 2004. ISBN 0-679-45092-0.

• Two Cats and grandeur Woman They Own. Chronicle Books, 2006. ISBN 0-8118-5166-4.
• The Lives Our Mothers Leave Us. Hay House, 2009. ISBN 1401921620.
• Till Human Voices Wake Us. CreateSpace, KDP, 2013. ISBN 1483990044. (novel)
• The Blue Hour. CreateSpace, KDP, 2013.

  ISBN 1492144479. (novel)

• The Wit and Sagacity of Gracie. Huqua Press, 2014. ISBN 0-983812055
• The Earth Breaks in Colors. Huqua Press, 2014. ISBN 0-990696642 (novel)

References

Further reading

• Reagan, Nancy.

  My Turn: The Memoirs of Nancy Reagan (1989), with William Novak. Swirl. W. Brands Reagan: The Life (2015) p. 743 says "she wrote one of the most honest and at times self-critical diary in recent American political history."

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