Do people in America know who Patsy Kensit is?

She played Mia Farrow, that is how America knows her.

Has she weighed in with her opinion?

[quote]Has she weighed in with her opinion?

No...lol.

There's been a bit of a scandal here in England about her, when she appeared on TV slurring her words, when she was promoting her book....

no, they don't know her

[quote]no, they don't know her

Are you sure? She was in Lethal Weapon 2.

Was she once married to the lead singer of Simple Minds?

She did some films back in the eighties. I remember "Absolute Beginners", it was pretty good.

Who are you, OP? Patsy Kensit?

All I know of her is the dodgy South African accent in Lethal Weapon and the fact she was married to a Gallagher.

The only knowledge I have of Patsy Kensit is her role in one of the Lethal Weapons movies with Mel Gibson.

She played an employee of the South African consulate in LA & ended up in a brief affair with Gibson's character. She got iced in the movie, for passing secrets to Gibson.

Does anybody really know who she is?

Of course the US does: US movie career started in big US movie; then started f*cking & divorcing in order to help her career; got a sh*tty boob job; and got super fat.

[quote] I remember "Absolute Beginners", it was pretty good.

It was fucking awful, but it apparently now has a cult following with Brooklyn hipsters.

Are you a Brooklyn Hipster, R6?

To keep this thread topical and give it some weight, while it continues to heat up....

Patsy played Mia's little girl in The Great Gatsby.

R12 she played Mia Farrow

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She was also a 1980s Euro pop star.

She was the lead child actress in the craptastic George Cukor US/USSR film "The Blue Bird" with Elizabeth Taylor, Cicely Tyson, Ava Gardner and James Coco.

What about "Angels and Insects" - seems like a DL-type of movie.

Married 4 times by her early 40s. I'll never understand why some people do these serial marriage/divorces.

Have her agent send a headshot.

R15, wow, what a blast from the past! I'd forgotten that song but now hearing it after 25 years I remember it and that I liked it a lot. But then again I'm European.

And like I remembered the song was written and produced by Pet Shop Boys.

Yes, I used to get Smash Hits magazine in the 80s and knew she was in a group called Eighth Wonder. Apart from that I knew she fucked and married several other musicians. Can't say I've ever actually heard her music or watched her films.

gosh she was gorgeous in the 80s. Absolute beginners was how I came to know of her and that pop band with her brother that I can't remember the name of.

Married to: Jim Kerr Simple Minds & Liam Gallagher of Oasis & someone else I can;t recall.

Angels & Insects was Bizarre but compelling.

Getting old sucks

Didn't she have that hit song "Crazy" and die in a plane crash? I think the lady from that American Horror show played her in the movie.

I know she was married to Dan Donovan from Big Audio Dynamite.

patsy in absolute beginners

Jim Kerr was cute when he was young

I do!

This was the first time I ever heard of her. I was in junior high and the girls I knew were still doing the big hair thing. I thought she was super cool.

This was from some special on cable--concert in Europe. It also featured acts my little sheltered self had never seen before--Pet Shop Boys, Depeche Mode and others I wish I could remember. It started me on my path of being the "weird" kid who listened to alternative music while everyone else was into Top 40 crap and wearing vintage clothes instead of the preppy shit.

She wasn't very talented, but in this clip, she is absolutely stunning.

I've know who she is ever since the Lethal Weapon 2 movie, but I remember her in a movie about werewolves, where she had a hot sex scene with Mario Van Peebles (I was watching him, not her).

PATSY WHO?

I know her only from the movie Kill Cruise with Liz Hurley. Lovely ladies, bleak movie that I saw on HBO or Encore like 20 years ago as a teenager.

She is dreadfully slurry and plastic-surgeried in that This Morning interview. Couldn't get through it. Yikes.

she's fantastic for all the reasons above. The video of her on that morning talk show was fine. She didn't seem out of it at all.

I thought I did but I was mixing her up with Greta Scacchi.

Jim Kerr has a lovely accent.

R34 I was going to say that she resembled Scacchi. I like her in GRACE OF MY HEART and ANGELS & INSECTS is an interesting, beautiful film. She's been kicking around forever.

Not only did she play Mia Farrow but she also played Mia's daughter in THE GREAT GATSBY.

[quote]I know her only from the movie Kill Cruise with Liz Hurley. Lovely ladies, bleak movie that I saw on HBO or Encore like 20 years ago as a teenager.

For your nostalgic pleasure, the whole film's on youtube (@ link).

She's says in her new autobiog' which I highly recommend (though I would have liked some more deeply personal dirt, I mean four marriages et al) that when she was making the film she and Liz demanded a better location hotel than they'd been given, which they got. From then on whenever the crew saw them walking in the town (they were filming in Crete) they'd say 'Here come the two bitches'...so they could hear. Made me laugh a lot for some reason.

Grace of my Heart and Four Rooms, right? If that's her, then it's a yes from me.

No mention of her turn as Cynthia Weil in GRACE OF MY HEART?

[What about "Angels and Insects" - seems like a DL-type of movie.]

Oh, yes! I read the book after I saw the movie. I recommend both.

Actually, surprisingly, the film Love & Betrayal: The Mia Farrow Story was pretty good and Patsy carried it off.

No one has mentioned her utter lack of talent yet? Her vacuousness? The fact that even the brainless Liam Gallagher called her "pretty vacant"?

I realized The Pet Shop Boys were gay when, in 1986, they described Kensit as "the best-looking person we've ever met." No straight man would ever use such gender-neutral language describing a beautiful woman.

I HOPE you guys know Jim Kerr. He's lovely, one of those who's oblivious to how funny and approachable he is. His accent's great too, I could listen to him ramble on all day. I think he always got unfair criticism for his outlook on life---I think he has true conviction in what he says, even if it seems idealistic or naive. Liam Gallagher IS hilarious, and I guess his swagger/not giving a shit is attractive, but I would imagine it's easier to be around someone like Jim, who's quiet, thoughtful and doesn't act with the intention of causing a stir. Patsy's love life is an eternal mystery.

Jim's recent work isn't half bad, it's at the end of the interview below:

"Was there any competition between you and Bono?" "Well, he was good at walking on water, I could make five fish seem like a lot more...."

R42 Jim's also famously well hung. I remember Julie Burchill's quote - "How does Jim Kerr get his cock to be seven inches? Fold it in half"

R8 Just saw this on the Lethal Weapon 2 IMDB Trivia page -

Patsy Kensit described her sex scene with Mel Gibson as having been very uncomfortable to act out. She stated that the reason was that she and Gibson were both married and both Catholics.

Will they ever know.....will they ever care.....

Of course we know who she is. She's the woman who went to her grave denying she killed Jon-Benet.

Will she have a Joan Collins type comeback? They're of a similar talent level.

I also saw her on French and Saunders.

The Sharon Tate of her day and age.

Fanning myself at R43's post. I never knew!

Patsy is lovely but seems to have no self-confidence. Her career seems to have imploded, but she was marvellous on our Strictly Come Dancing, after those movie roles. She was in Cukor's disaster The Bluebird with Taylor, Ava etc. and in the Mia Farrow Great Gatsby, and was in tv commercials when aged 4. She sang with the Pet Shop Boys as Eight Avenue's "I'm not scared".

Perhaps all her marriages have made her a little screwy. She has been doing tv soaps like Emmerdale and Casualty here recently. Lets hope she gets her act together and become fabulous again, when one sees all those talentless bitches like Cheryl Cole back in the limelight.

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It wouldn't be surprising if she doesn't have much self confidence. She's been deemed talentless for most of her career.

99.9% of America has never heard of Patsy Kensit.

And the other 0.01% wishes they hadn't.

She is well known in the UK where she lives and works, I don't imagine she is trying to crack America at this stage of her career.

Perhaps her gangster father and her mother dying young and then being a child actress and small time movie star and wife to all those rock stars have left her with problems, but she seems to be coping and bringing up her own children.

Maybe she should get the breaks Amanda Holden did and become a judge on talent shows, but I imagine she is too nice to be nasty to people.

Kylie Minogue is another Patsy type but with better luck.

She seems to have completely disappeared off the radar - or am I wrong?

Patsy was in a film called '21' in the early '90s that I was obsessed with, it was actually a terrific vehicle for her and starred a very young and handsome Rufus Sewell as her junkie boyfriend. I hesitate to watch it 20 years later, but at the time I thought the film and she were both terrific.

She reminds me of Naomi Watts.

Who?

[quote]I hesitate to watch it 20 years later, but at the time I thought the film and she were both terrific.

I was going to say - Good Luck! finding a copy, but it's on YT.

Be quick, it won't be on there for long.

She was a huge pop star in Italy in the 1980s. She was on TV and the gossip magazines constantly.

She was stunningly beautiful, she couldn't really sing, but the tunes were catchy.

Bono was having an affair with her for years including while she was married to Liam. Seem to remember a story that Jim Kerr walked in on them. A UK journalist supposedly caught them out at a hotel too. That was late 90s

she was an adorable child

Any updates on Patsy's career or more marriages since this thread was started?

It seems the last time she was married was to this guy in 2010 and just for a year. She really picks 'em!

- from 2017. The SUN are such cunts:

[quote]IS THAT YOU PATSY? Patsy Kensit, 49, looks unrecognisable as she shows off dramatic transformation on spa trip in London

Photographing her thru the window of some London spa.