Patricia Harras
The best role of Patricia Harras's career came early. A Canadian actress from Winnipeg, sometimes credited as Patti Harras, she played Julia Osborne, a widowed mother, across the series Jake and the Kid, and won a Gemini Award for it as best actress in a continuing leading dramatic role.
What followed is a working actor's record rather than a star's: studio productions passing through with small parts to fill, and Harras filling them. She is the Fantastic Four's receptionist in Fantastic Four: Rise of the Silver Surfer, one of the NASA wives in Mission to Mars, Howard's wife in Things We Lost in the Fire, a driver's wife in Intersection.
The named parts are the ones worth seeking out, because they are where somebody wrote her a person instead of a function. She is Dr. Simon in Numb, Mrs. Campbell in Fear Island, Lorraine in Love Happens, Dodie Wilcox in the children's series Spooksville, Theresa in The Perfect Bride and Becky in the 2021 true-crime film Secrets of a Gold Digger Killer. It is a career built on being the person a scene needs for ninety seconds, and getting it right often enough to keep being called.
Movies (9)
TV (2)
Where to start with Patricia Harras
There is one clear reason to be on this page, and it is Jake and The Kid: the lead role, the award, and the only place here where Harras plays a character with a life outside the scene she is in. Watch that first.
After that, choose by what you already like rather than by her billing. Numb and Things We Lost in the Fire are the two adult dramas on the list and the better films by some way. Spooksville is the children's horror series on her record and holds up for the age it was made for. Fantastic Four: Rise of the Silver Surfer and Mission to Mars are the big-budget entries, and her parts in both are brief enough that you should come for the films. Secrets of a Gold Digger Killer is the late true-crime curiosity.