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All my career, I've said this: Critics and producers think audiences want actors that only present the silhouette and hit the points in the silhouette. What I do is too dangerous.

Patti LuPone

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Patti LuPone
Age: 75
Born: 1949
Born: April 21
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Patti Ann LuPone
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