Patricia Agnes Glassop (6 July 1926 – 21 September 2010), also professionally known as Patricia Hutchence was an Australian film and television makeup artist, and was the mother of
INXS
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frontman
Michael Hutchence
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. In later years she was an author.
Biography
Patricia Agnes Kennedy was born on 6 July 1926. In her teens she became a model and carried on modeling up to her thirties.
She was first married at the age of eighteen. A year later, she gave birth to a daughter, Tina. She later divorced her first husband, whose name is not a matter of public record.
When she was thirty years old, she married her second husband Kelland Hutchence. On 22 January 1960, her first son Michael was born. Two years later, her second son Rhett was born. The family moved to Hong Kong when son Michael was four years old and stayed there until he was twelve years old.
In 1966, while still living in Hong Kong, both Patricia and her daughter Tina became involved in the film ''
Strange Portrait
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'', starring
Jeffrey Hunter
Jeffrey Hunter (born Henry Herman McKinnies Jr.; November 25, 1926 – May 27, 1969) was an American film and television actor and producer known for his roles in films such as ''The Searchers'' and ''King of Kings (1961 film), King of Kin ...
. Patricia had the makeup artist job and Tina had a small part in the film. Fellow Australian
Terry Bourke
Terry Christopher Bourke (19 April 1940 – 29 June 2002) was an Australian journalist, screenwriter, producer and director.
He worked as a show business journalist and production assistant in Hong Kong for a number of years before returning t ...
was involved with the production of the film. The film, however, never saw release.
In 1970, she worked as makeup and hair stylist in the film ''
Noon Sunday
''Noon Sunday'' is a 1970 action film directed by Terry Bourke about two mercenaries. The film was the first feature produced in Guam.
Production
Terry Bourke and producer Gordon Mailloux had previously worked on the film ''Sampan'' together, whi ...
''. It was her second time working with Bourke.
Her marriage to Hutchence lasted seventeen years. In 1991, aged 62, she married Ross Glassop, a retired pilot who was in the
Royal Australian Air Force
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Death
She died, aged 84, on 21 September 2010. She was survived by two of her three children: Tina and Rhett.
Author
As Patricia Glassop
* ''Caring for the family's future : a practical guide to identification and management of perinatal anxiety and depression'' by Bryanne Barnett, Cathrine Fowler, Patricia Glossop - Chipping Norton, N.S.W. : Surrey Beatty & Sons Pty Ltd, c2004
* ''Just a man : the real Michael Hutchence'' by Tina Hutchence and Patricia Glassop - London : Sidgwick & Jackson, 2000
As Patricia Hutchence
* ''Make-up is magic'' by Patricia Hutchence (paperback) - Crows Nest, N.S.W. : Little Hills Press, 1988
Hardcover title - ''Make-up is magic, For the 1920s to now, corrective, fantasy and fun''
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Make-up is magic / Patricia Hutchence
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Makeup and hair stylist
References
External links
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Australian make-up artists
Australian non-fiction writers
1926 births
2010 deaths