Patrick Reynolds (activist)
Patrick Cleveland Reynolds is an American antismoking activist and former actor.
Having attended The Hotchkiss School, Reynolds studied filmmaking at the University of California and the University of Southern California. He ventured into acting in 1975, during a visit to the set of Nashville. His livein girlfriend, actress Shelley Duvall, had invited him to the set, and director Robert Altman cast him in a small nonspeaking role. Reynolds subsequently studied acting at several Los Angeles schools with Milton Katselas, classmates included Michelle Pfeiffer and Patrick Swayze. At the urging of his voice coach, he recorded three unreleased pop singles in 1982. He married his first wife Regina Wahl in Ofterschwang, West Germany in July 1983, quit acting and briefly began working for her fathers international bus company. He returned to acting after being offered a lead role in Eliminators. His mother died in 1985. In 1986, he spoke out publicly for the first time against the tobacco industry. He remarried in 2007, and lives in Los Angeles with his wife Alexandra and t
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