Actor
Patti Astor
March 17, 1950 · Cincinnati, Ohio, USA
Patti Astor (born ca. 1950) is an American performer who was a key actress in New York City underground films of the 1970s, and the East Village art scene of the 1980s, and involved in the early popularizing of hip hop. She co-founded the instrumental contemporary art gallery, Fun Gallery.
Patti Astor grew up in Cincinnati, Ohio where she was a charter member of the Cincinnati Civic Ballet. Her adventurous spirit however took her to New York City at the age of eighteen (in 1968) to Barnard College but she soon dropped out to take a leadership role in the anti-Vietnam war group SDS (Students for a Democratic Society). She spent two and a half years as a young revolutionary. At the end of that war she traveled the United States and Europe with her dance act, A Diamond As Big As The Ritz.
Often works with
Eric Mitchell
9 titles together
The Foreigner, Rome '78, Unmade Beds
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Anya Phillips
4 titles together
The Foreigner, Rome '78, Kidnapped
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David McDermott
4 titles together
Rome '78, The Long Island Four, Dear Jimmy
Debbie Harry
3 titles together
Forever, Lulu, The Foreigner, Unmade Beds
John Lurie
3 titles together
Rome '78, Underground U.S.A., Red Italy
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Pat Place
3 titles together
Rome '78, Red Italy, Dear Jimmy
Full filmography · 13
Assault of the Killer Bimbos
as Poodles
1988
Forever, Lulu
as Mary Anne Zlutnik
1986
Bachelorette Pad
as Candy Stone
1983
Wild Style
as Virginia
19826.1The Long Island Four
cast
1980
Underground U.S.A.
as Vickie
1980
Red Italy
cast
1979
Rome '78
cast
1978
Dear Jimmy
cast
1978
The Foreigner
as Fili Harlow
1978
Kidnapped
cast
1978
Snakewoman
cast
1977