VIDEO: ELEPHANT MAN's Patricia Clarkson Reveals How Bradley Cooper Saved Her from Falling Off Stage

By: Sep. 04, 2015
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In PEOPLE's 60-second 'People Chatter', Broadway's Patricia Clarkson answered 5 questions in just 60 seconds. Among the surprise info revealed was how her ELEPHANT MAN co-star Bradley Cooper came to her rescue when she almost fell off the stage! Check out the video.

Patricia Clarkson received a 2015 Tony Award nomination for Best Performance by an Actress in a Featured Role in a Play for THE ELEPHANT MAN. She will soon be seen in the new fillm "Learning to Drive"

As an Academy Award nominee and Emmy Award-winning actress, Patricia Clarkson was most recently seen in the comedy "Friends with Benefits" in which she co-stars withJustin Timberlake and Mila Kunis and the Lone Scherfig directed drama, "One Day" with Anne Hathaway and Jim Sturgess. In 2010, she was seen in the box office hit "Easy A", after receiving rave reviews for her starring role in the award winning romantic drama, "Cairo Time." In 2003, her role in "Pieces of April" earned her nominations for Academy, Golden Globe, SAG, Broadcast Film Critics and Independent Spirit awards. The National Board of REVIEW and the National Society of Film Critics named her Best Supporting Actress of the Year for her work in "Pieces of April" and "The Station Agent."

Other film credits include: Martin Scorsese's thriller "Shutter Island;" Woody Allen's "Whatever Works" and "Vicky Christina Barcelona;" "Blind Date" with Stanley Tucci; "Elegy;" "No Reservations;" "All the Kings Men;" "Lars and the Real Girl;" "Good Night, and Good Luck" with George Clooney and David Straithairn, for which she and the cast received both Screen Actors Guild and GOTHAM Award nominations for Best Ensemble; "Far From Heaven" which won her a New York Film Critics Circle Award for Supporting Actress. Her continuous innovative work has earned her independent film earned her the Independent Award for Acting Excellence at the 2009 ShoWest Awards.

On television, Clarkson guest starred in the critically acclaimed HBO series "Six Feet Under," for which she won an Emmy in 2002 and again in 2006. Clarkson was seen in Lifetime's "Five," an anthology of five short films directed by Jennifer Aniston, Alicia Keys, Demi Moore, Patty Jenkins and Penelope Spheeris.

Video courtesy of PEOPLE



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