Patricia McKenzie
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Patricia McKenzie is a multi-lingual Canadian
Canada
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 Actress, Dancer and Singer.

She is best known for starring roles on TV:

as Reena in Charlie Jade
Charlie Jade
Charlie Jade is a science fiction television program filmed mainly in Cape Town, South Africa. It stars Jeffrey Pierce in the title role, as a detective from a parallel universe who finds himself trapped in our universe. This is a Canadian and South African co-production filmed in conjunction with...

 (Space (TV channel) April 16, 2005/Sci Fi Channel
Sci Fi Channel (United States)
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 June 6, 2008),

and as Jenn in Naked Josh
Naked Josh
Naked Josh was a Canadian television series broadcast on Showcase. The show starred David Julian Hirsh as Josh Gould, a university professor in Montreal who, although he teaches a sexual anthropology course, struggles to understand the ever-shifting rules and expectations of the dating scene.It...

 (Showcase
Showcase Television
Showcase is a Canadian English language Category A specialty channel owned by Shaw Media. Showcase is a predominantly fiction-based service centred around scripted television series and films....

 June 1, 2004/Oxygen Channel
Oxygen (TV channel)
Oxygen is an American cable television specialty channel with television programming marketed towards women, with a format similar to Lifetime.- History :...

 June 4, 2004).

On stage Patricia has performed in numerous musicals including The Lion King
The Lion King
The Lion King is a 1994 American animated film produced by Walt Disney Feature Animation and released by Walt Disney Pictures. It is the 32nd feature in the Walt Disney Animated Classics series...

, the French production of Chicago (musical)
Chicago (musical)
Chicago is a musical set in Prohibition-era Chicago. The music is by John Kander with lyrics by Fred Ebb and a book by Ebb and Bob Fosse. The story is a satire on corruption in the administration of criminal justice and the concept of the "celebrity criminal"...

 and Notre-Dame de Paris (The Hunchback of Notre-Dame).

Her film
Film
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 and television
Television
Television is a telecommunication medium for transmitting and receiving moving images that can be monochrome or colored, with accompanying sound...

 roles include Sigma
Sigma
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, Stardom
Stardom
Stardom is a 2000 Canadian film written by J.Jacob Potashnik & Denys Arcand and directed by Denys Arcand and starring Jessica Paré and Dan Aykroyd. It tells the story of a young girl who tries to cope with her rise to stardom after being discovered by a fashion agency...

, Soul Food
Soul food
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, Blue Murder
Blue Murder
Blue Murder were an English heavy metal band, founded by ex-Whitesnake and Thin Lizzy guitarist John Sykes.-Background:Blue Murder was formed by John Sykes in 1988...

, Bliss
Bliss (TV series)
Bliss is a Canadian produced, half hour dramatic television series, produced by Montreal-based Galafilm and Toronto-based Back Alley Films, an anthology of women's erotica...

, Bob Gratton: Ma Vie
Bob Gratton: Ma Vie
Bob Gratton : Ma Vie, My Life was a Québécois sitcom television series currently airing on V , revolving around the daily activities of a "larger-than-life character", Bob Gratton ....

, Student Bodies (TV series)
Student Bodies (TV series)
Student Bodies is a syndicated television comedy program that was produced in Montreal, Quebec, Canada from 1997 to the end of 1999. While a live-action series, animations are used throughout as thoughts and imaginations...

, Flowers Don't Last, The Take-Away Bride and Tout sur moi (TV Series).

She was once co-host of The Caribbean Workout on TSN (Sports Network).

In 2008, Patricia joined the cast of Les Soeurs Elliot
Les Soeurs Elliot
Les Soeurs Elliot is a Canadian television drama series, which will air on TVA in the 2007-08 season.The series will star Sylvie Léonard, Isabel Richer and Julie Perreault as three sisters whose lives are thrown into turmoil when their father returns after disappearing thirty years...

, on TVA (TV network)
TVA (TV network)
TVA is a privately owned French language television network in Canada. The network is currently owned by Groupe TVA Inc. , a publicly traded subsidiary of Quebecor Media...

, filming in Montreal
Montreal
Montreal is a city in Canada. It is the largest city in the province of Quebec, the second-largest city in Canada and the seventh largest in North America...

.

Awards

Patricia received a Gemini
Gemini Award
The Gemini Awards are annual television broadcasting industry awards in Canada.First awarded in 1986, the Geminis celebrate the achievements of TV members of the Academy of Canadian Cinema & Television. Essentially, it presents awards for the best television productions in Canada. Awards are...

 nomination
Nomination
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 for Best Supporting Actress in Charlie Jade
Charlie Jade
Charlie Jade is a science fiction television program filmed mainly in Cape Town, South Africa. It stars Jeffrey Pierce in the title role, as a detective from a parallel universe who finds himself trapped in our universe. This is a Canadian and South African co-production filmed in conjunction with...

 in the 2006 Gemini Awards
2006 Gemini Awards
The 21st Gemini Awards were held on November 4, 2006 to honour achievements in Canadian television. The ceremony was conducted at the River Rock Casino Resort in Richmond, British Columbia and broadcast on Global.-Best News/Information Series:...

.

Naked Josh
Naked Josh
Naked Josh was a Canadian television series broadcast on Showcase. The show starred David Julian Hirsh as Josh Gould, a university professor in Montreal who, although he teaches a sexual anthropology course, struggles to understand the ever-shifting rules and expectations of the dating scene.It...

was nominated for a 2006 Monte-Carlo Television Festival Award for Best Comedy Ensemble.

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