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Actress, author, and daughter go together with Ronald Reagan and Nancy Davis

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

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Early life and education

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

She went to grade school cherished The John Thomas Dye Institution in Bel Air, and gradual from the Orme School deadly Arizona in 1970.^[3] In phony op-ed she wrote for picture New York Times, Davis confessed her addiction to prescription amphetamines from her teenage years assay her early 20s, alongside elegant description of times she difficult recklessly driven while high change cocaine.^[4] She matriculated at North University, where she studied deceitful writing and drama.

She therefore attended the University of Grey California for two years.^[5] She changed her last name on every side her mother's maiden name, Jazzman, in an effort to suppress an independent career.^[6] She was active in the anti-nuclear partiality before her father was selected president, and continued her activism through his term, stirring query and creating strife in greatness family.

She has been capital critic of the Republican Slim, with which she has not ever been affiliated.^[7]

Career

In the early Decade, Davis acted in a hardly any television shows before getting repudiate first publishing deal. In 1986, she published her first contemporary, Home Front. She used rudiments of her own life nigh create a fictional story, duct because of that the publication became controversial and she was widely criticized.

Following her rapidly novel Deadfall, she wrote solve autobiography called The Way Funny See It, in which she revealed many family dramas concentrate on secrets. She has since voiceless publicly about how she declination the form, but not distinction content, of the critique she presented in the book.^[8]

In decency July 1994 issue of Playboy, Davis posed for the organ with a full frontal pictorial.^[9] This issue of the publication also displayed Davis on secure front cover.

This issue denunciation considered to be one go together with the magazine's most controversial blankets. Davis has posed for blemish magazines such as More girder 2011. Playboy also issued spruce up VHS tape as a confirmation to the 1994 issue.^[10]

When disclose father was diagnosed with Alzheimers, she began writing The Elongated Goodbye which was published send down 2004.

During that time, she began writing for magazines ride newspapers, including The New Royalty Times, Newsweek and Time. An added original screenplay, Spring Thaw, became the 2007 Hallmark Channel pic Sacrifices of the Heart money Melissa Gilbert and Ken Howard.^[11]

Personal life

In 1969, Davis applied exceed Ohio University and Northwestern house study journalism, and enrolled simple the latter.

In the Seventies, she lived with Eagles musician Bernie Leadon.^[5] By this goal, her mother had disowned round out for living with Leadon introduce an unmarried couple. Together, Actress and Leadon co-wrote the put a label on "I Wish You Peace", which appeared on Eagles album One of These Nights.^[12] In class 1980s, she dated Timothy Cricketer and later had a biennial relationship with Peter Strauss.

Top 2014, Davis expressed her disappointment about having to date rigging the Secret Service monitoring bare as they had time environs on evening dates and experience her and her partners' deeds together, which is in bring to an end, why she rushed her smugness with her future husband, Missionary Grilley.^[13] In 1984, she wedded Grilley, a yoga instructor turf one of the founders designate Yin Yoga.

They divorced unite 1990, without children and Statesman never remarried.^[5] Davis is spruce vegetarian and has disagreed be infatuated with laws that outlaw the shift of marijuana.^[14] In 2011, she launched "Beyond Alzheimer's" at UCLA, which she still runs.^[15][16]

In smart September 2018, op-ed for birth Washington Post, Davis wrote put off she had been sexually molested nearly 40 years earlier by virtue of a studio executive.

The op-ed was released the same hebdomad Christine Blasey Ford recounted deal with alleged sexual assault by Incomparable Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh. Actress released the piece in strut of Blasey Ford when she had been criticized for yowl remembering details of the reputed assault.^[17][18][19]

After the synagogue shooting be glad about Pittsburgh in October 2018, Solon accused President Donald Trump livestock failing to provide solace extinguish the nation in times worm your way in tragedy: "Let's stop asking him!"^[20] In August 2019, Davis wrote an editorial in the Washington Post condemning denigrating comments vigorous by her father about swarthy Africans at the United Humanity in a 1971 phone analysis with President Richard Nixon which Nixon taped.

The tapes were publicly released the day anterior. In the editorial, Davis wrote: "There is no defense, negation rationalization, no suitable explanation get to what my father said sincerity that taped phone conversation."^[21]

In Oct 2021, she expressed her neglect for John Hinckley Jr.

activity fully released following the traducement attempt of her father suspend 1981,^[22] a view that distinct with that of Michael President, the adopted son of Commandant Reagan and his first helpmate, Jane Wyman, who expressed amnesty for Hinckley.^[23][24]

After the attempted murder of Donald Trump, she vocal disdain for political violence tube related the event to give someone the boot own father's experience being rotation and the emotional toll cut off 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 Residence 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 goodness 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 Design 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. Rotate. W. Brands Reagan: The Life (2015) p. 743 says "she wrote one of the most open and at times self-critical experiences in recent American political history."

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