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A very pleasing and thoroughly enjoyable vision on 1950s film and 1960s TV, Patricia Crowley effortlessly lit up her surroundings with a warm, inviting personality and fresh-faced attractiveness that she still carries today. At her peak she courted top TV stardom in the mid-'60s as the beleaguered wife and mom on the successful series _"Please Don't Eat the Daisies" in 1986. While many understandably agree that Patricia Crowley's talents deserved perhaps a better serving in Hollywood, particularly on film, she has nevertheless proved herself a lovely, lively and still ingratiating presence.
1953 Deb Star.
Younger sister of singer/actress Ann Crowley.
In December of 2005 she and her husband Andy Friendly were among the passengers on a Los Angeles-to-Honolulu flight in which a 37-year-old Mexican passenger began acting erratically and threatening other passengers. He had to be restrained with plastic handcuffs. Andy was one of the passengers who helped restrain him.
Her first husband, Ed Hookstratten , was an entertainment/sports attorney and has represented such major figures as Bryant Gumbel.
Performed summer stock in New England during her teen years. Her older sister Ann Crowley was also an actress and musical performer.
Daughter of Helen and Vincent Crowley, a mine foreman.
Was a photo model at age 11.
Met her future husband, Ed Hookstratten , while appearing on the Los Angeles stage in "Kiss Me Kate" while she was filming Hollywood or Bust .
Mother of Jon Hookstratten (born May 5, 1958) and Ann Hookstratten (born December 21, 1960).
Her father, Vincent Crowley, died at age 58 of a heart attack in New York on January 22, 1961.
She played John Bennett Perry s wife in both "Friends" and "The Closer" .
