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Patricia Paz Maria Medina (born 19 July 1919) is an English actress from Liverpool, England. Her father was a Spaniard (Ramón Medina Nebot from the Canary Islands) and her mother was English. Medina began acting as a teenager in the late 1930s. She worked her way up to leading roles in the mid-1940s, whereupon she left for Hollywood. In 1950's Fortunes of Captain Blood, she teamed up with British actor Louis Hayward. She and Hayward subsequently appeared together in 1951's The Lady and the Bandit and Lady in the Iron Mask and Captain Pirate, both from 1952. Darkly beautiful, Medina was... MORE

Patricia Paz Maria Medina (born 19 July 1919) is an English actress from Liverpool, England. Her father was a Spaniard (Ramón Medina Nebot from the Canary Islands) and her mother was English. Medina began acting as a teenager in the late 1930s. She worked her way up to leading roles in the mid-1940s, whereupon she left for Hollywood. In 1950's Fortunes of Captain Blood, she teamed up with British actor Louis Hayward. She and Hayward subsequently appeared together in 1951's The Lady and the Bandit and Lady in the Iron Mask and Captain Pirate, both from 1952. Darkly beautiful, Medina was often typecast in period melodramas such as The Black Knight. Two of her more notable films were William Witney's Stranger at My Door and Orson Welles' Mr. Arkadin, a follow-up to The Third Man, based on the radio series The Lives of Harry Lime. Although prolific during the early 1950s, her film career petered out by the end of the decade. She performed in four episodes of Walt Disney's Zorro in 1958 as Margarita Cortazar. In 1958 she also appeared as "The Lady" Diana Coulter in two episodes of Richard Boone's Have Gun, Will Travel. In 1968, she returned to the big screen in Robert Aldrich's LESS