Tonye Patano

Tonye Patano

Born: October 16, 1961
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Tonye T. Patano (born October 16, 1961) is an American actress. She may be best known as "Heylia James" on the television series Weeds.

She has appeared in television shows such as Law & Order, Sex and the City, Monk and Third Watch. Patano was in the original cast of the Broadway play, 45 Seconds from Broadway by Neil Simon.

At age 35, she was diagnosed with diabetes, and she suffered a stroke in 2005.

Movies for Tonye Patano...

Eileen
Title: Eileen
Character: Mrs. Stevens
Released: December 1, 2023
Type: Movie
During a bitter 1964 Massachusetts winter, young secretary Eileen becomes enchanted by Rebecca Saint John, the glamorous new counselor at the prison where she works. Their budding friendship takes a twisted turn when Rebecca reveals a dark secret — throwing Eileen onto a sinister path.
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Topside
Title: Topside
Character: Violet
Released: March 25, 2022
Type: Movie
Deep in the underbelly of New York City, a five year-old girl and her mother live among a community that has claimed the abandoned subway tunnels as their home. After a sudden police-mandated eviction, the pair are forced to flee aboveground into a brutal winter night. Determined to return home, they fight to find shelter as their world is thrown into chaos.
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Title: Power Book II: Ghost
Character: Dean Ida Brooks
Released: September 6, 2020
Type: TV
Picking up just days after the “Power” finale, this sequel series follows Tariq navigating his new life, in which his desire to shed his father’s legacy comes up against the mounting pressure to save his family.
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Pete Can't Play Basketball
Title: Pete Can't Play Basketball
Character: Mary
Released: June 25, 2020
Type: Movie
In a world where all that matters is basketball, Pete can't play basketball.
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Title: Tommy
Character: Mrs. Gates
Released: February 5, 2020
Type: TV
When a former high-ranking NYPD officer becomes the first female Chief of Police for Los Angeles, she uses her unflinching honesty and hardball tactics to navigate the social, political and national security issues that converge with enforcing the law.
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Title: FBI: Most Wanted
Character: Susan 'Mama B' Barnes
Released: January 7, 2020
Type: TV
The Fugitive Task Force relentlessly tracks and captures the notorious criminals on the Bureau’s Most Wanted list. Seasoned agent Jess LaCroix oversees the highly skilled team that functions as a mobile undercover unit that is always out in the field, pursuing those who are most desperate to elude justice.
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A Vigilante
Title: A Vigilante
Character: Counselor Beverly
Released: March 29, 2019
Type: Movie
A once-abused woman devotes herself to ridding victims of their domestic abusers while hunting down the one she must kill to be truly free.
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Title: SMILF
Character: Aunt Valerie
Released: November 5, 2017
Type: TV
A raw and honest comedic look at a single, 20-something from Southie whose desires for relationships, sex, and a career collide with the realities of young, single motherhood.
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Roxanne Roxanne
Title: Roxanne Roxanne
Character: Ms. Denise
Released: January 22, 2017
Type: Movie
The most feared battle emcee in the early 1980s in Queens, New York, was a fierce teenager from the Queensbridge projects. At the age of 14, Roxanne Shanté was well on her way to becoming a hip-hop legend, as she hustled to provide for her family while defending herself from the dangers of the street.
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Good Luck: In Farsi
Title: Good Luck: In Farsi
Released: January 1, 2017
Type: Movie
A darkly comic look at two actresses vying for the same role on a network television show.
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Jack of the Red Hearts
Title: Jack of the Red Hearts
Character: Miz
Released: February 26, 2016
Type: Movie
A teenage con artist tricks a desperate mother into hiring her as a live-in companion for her autistic daughter.
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How To Tell You're A Douchebag
Title: How To Tell You're A Douchebag
Character: Miss Lady
Released: January 25, 2016
Type: Movie
Ray Livingston is a relationship-blogging hack (“freelance writer, actually”) responsible for Brooklyn’s infamous blog, “Occasionally Dating Black Women.” The well-written, if not controversial, blog has generated some notoriety, but Ray is chafing from an overextended stay in New York, romantic ennui, and a stagnating writing career. After a particularly crappy week, he goes off on a tirade and harasses a gorgeous random passerby, only to discover that it’s Rochelle Marseille, one of New York’s up-and-coming authors. Moving to make amends in an effort to preserve his media clout, Ray is stunned when Rochelle gives him more than he ever thought she would.
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Title: Sneaky Pete
Character: Libby Metzger
Released: August 7, 2015
Type: TV
A con man on the run from a vicious gangster takes cover from his past by assuming the identity of his prison cellmate, Pete, “reuniting” with Pete’s estranged family, a colorful, dysfunctional group that threatens to drag him into a world just as dangerous as the one he’s trying to escape - and, just maybe, give him a taste of the loving family he’s never had.
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Title: Younger
Character: Akilah
Released: March 31, 2015
Type: TV
Liza Miller, a suddenly single stay-at-home mother, tries to get back into the working world, only to find it’s nearly impossible to start at the bottom at 40-year old. When a chance encounter convinces her she looks younger than she is, Liza tries to pass herself off as 26 and lands a job as an assistant at Empirical Press. Now she just has to make sure no one finds out the secret only she and her best friend Maggie share.
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Time Out of Mind
Title: Time Out of Mind
Character: Ms. Jackson
Released: September 7, 2014
Type: Movie
Evicted from his squat and suddenly alone on the streets, George is a man without a home. Struggling with his demons and desperately trying to connect with the daughter he abandoned, he navigates the system, hustling for change and somewhere safe and quiet to gather his thoughts. But the streets are relentless and soon, George finds himself teetering on the edge, alone and abandoned.
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The David Dance
Title: The David Dance
Character: Mrs. P
Released: March 8, 2014
Type: Movie
Away from the microphone, David is soft spoken, shy and unsure of himself. However, as his on-air alias ‘Danger Dave,’ the host of “Gay Talk,” he’s poised, witty, and every listener’s best friend. His sister, Kate, a thrice divorced banker has a yen for Schumann and cats. Though successful, the siblings suffer from a secret, yet vast, sense of inadequacy. Kate decides to adopt and asks David to be a father figure. David gawkily romances his coworker. Past and present intertwine to tell the story of a man learning to love and accept himself.
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Title: The Blacklist
Character: Judge Hurban
Released: September 23, 2013
Type: TV
Raymond "Red" Reddington, one of the FBI's most wanted fugitives, surrenders in person at FBI Headquarters in Washington, D.C. He claims that he and the FBI have the same interests: bringing down dangerous criminals and terrorists. In the last two decades, he's made a list of criminals and terrorists that matter the most but the FBI cannot find because it does not know they exist. Reddington calls this "The Blacklist". Reddington will co-operate, but insists that he will speak only to Elizabeth Keen, a rookie FBI profiler.
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Diving Normal
Title: Diving Normal
Character: Anne
Released: April 9, 2013
Type: Movie
An unlikely love triangle: an ambitious Brooklyn-ite graphic novelist and his peculiar neighbor fall for the same beautiful but broken girl. The three combat abandonment, addiction and the struggle with conforming to traditional relationships.
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Title: The Americans
Character: Viola Johnson
Released: January 30, 2013
Type: TV
Set during the Cold War period in the 1980s, The Americans is the story of Elizabeth and Philip Jennings, two Soviet KGB officers posing as an American married couple in the suburbs of Washington D.C. and their neighbor, Stan Beeman, an FBI Counterintelligence agent.
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Title: Elementary
Character: Dolores Murphy
Released: September 27, 2012
Type: TV
A modern-day drama about a crime-solving duo that cracks the NYPD's most impossible cases. Following his fall from grace in London and a stint in rehab, eccentric Sherlock escapes to Manhattan where his wealthy father forces him to live with his worst nightmare - a sober companion, Dr. Watson.
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County
Title: County
Character: Liz
Released: January 2, 2012
Type: Movie
The lives of a group of young doctors, nurses, and administrators working at an underfunded Los Angeles county hospital.
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The Great Fight
Title: The Great Fight
Character: Sandra Chilton
Released: June 5, 2011
Type: Movie
A disgraced police man is sent to work security at a local high school and ends up training an autistic boy with talents for mixed martial arts.
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Stolen
Title: Stolen
Character: Elsie Mauer
Released: October 10, 2009
Type: Movie
A detective becomes obsessed with solving a child's 50-year-old murder, uncovering striking similarities between the case and his son's disappearance.
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The Taking of Pelham 1 2 3
Title: The Taking of Pelham 1 2 3
Character: Regina, conductor
Released: June 10, 2009
Type: Movie
Armed men hijack a New York City subway train, holding the passengers hostage in return for a ransom, and turning an ordinary day's work for dispatcher Walter Garber into a face-off with the mastermind behind the crime.
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Loving Leah
Title: Loving Leah
Character: Emily
Released: January 25, 2009
Type: Movie
A handsome Washington, D.C. doctor and a young New York woman fall in love at an unusual time...after they get married. Leah Lever is married to an Orthodox rabbi, Benjamin Lever, whose brother, Jake is a successful cardiologist and a non-practicing Jew. Jake is stunned when Benjamin dies suddenly, but not as stunned as when he is told that, under an ancient Jewish Law, he is expected to marry the childless Leah to carry on Benjamin's name.
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Title: Eli Stone
Released: January 31, 2008
Type: TV
Many lawyers consider themselves prophets, but Eli Stone may be the real deal. Eli has built a successful career at a top law firm in San Francisco representing only the biggest and richest corporations that make a habit of screwing over the little guy. But after experiencing a series of odd hallucinations, Eli seeks to find a deeper meaning to life while trying not to lose his job and destroy his relationship with the bosses' daughter. When Eli discovers an aneurysm in his brain, he wonders if his condition is truly medical or if perhaps he now has a higher calling.
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The Savages
Title: The Savages
Character: Ms. Robinson
Released: November 28, 2007
Type: Movie
A sister and brother face the realities of familial responsibility as they begin to care for their ailing father.
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American Loser
Title: American Loser
Character: Mrs. Shelby
Released: June 14, 2007
Type: Movie
A dramatic comedy about a self-induced attention-deficit disordered, learning disabled, Tourette's syndrome suffering, balance impaired, ex-alcoholic young man from the Upper East Side of Manhattan and the gold-digging girl who inspires him to try to get it together.
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Little Manhattan
Title: Little Manhattan
Character: Birdie
Released: September 26, 2005
Type: Movie
Ten-year-old Gabe was just a normal kid growing up in Manhattan until Rosemary Telesco walked into his life, actually into his karate class. But before Gabe can tell Rosemary how he feels, she tells him she will not be going to public school any more. Gabe has a lot more to learn about life, love, and girls.
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Title: Weeds
Character: Heylia James
Released: August 7, 2005
Type: TV
After the unexpected death of her husband, a suburban mom resorts to selling weed to support her family.
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Messengers
Title: Messengers
Character: Linda Mabry
Released: June 27, 2004
Type: Movie
Dr. Sarah Chapel returns to the small town of Brighton Mills when her father Dr. Robert Chapel unexpectedly dies. His clients and friends miss him, and Sarah discloses that all of them have perfect health; they hear voices when they are sleeping; and they are addicted to the stimulant Tributol. Her further investigation discloses a dark secret about the haunting voices.
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Title: Hope & Faith
Character: Receptionist
Released: September 23, 2003
Type: TV
Hope, a down-to-earth, happily married mother of three has her tidy world turned upside down when her celebrity sister moves in. Faith was living the Hollywood life as a soap opera star before her character was killed off.
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Title: Monk
Character: Woman on Train
Released: July 12, 2002
Type: TV
Adrian Monk was once a rising star with the San Francisco Police Department, legendary for using unconventional means to solve the department's most baffling cases. But after the tragic (and still unsolved) murder of his wife Trudy, he developed an extreme case of obsessive-compulsive disorder. Now working as a private consultant, Monk continues to investigate cases in the most unconventional ways.
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Title: Curb Your Enthusiasm
Character: Board Member #2
Released: October 15, 2000
Type: TV
The off-kilter, unscripted comic vision of Larry David, who plays himself in a parallel universe in which he can't seem to do anything right, and, by his standards, neither can anyone else.
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Title: Deadline
Released: October 2, 2000
Type: TV
Deadline is a television series which was shown on NBC in the 2000–2001 season. It starred Oliver Platt as Wallace Benton, who worked for the fictional New York Ledger. This was a daily newspaper which was seen in many episodes of Law & Order.
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Title: Now and Again
Released: September 24, 1999
Type: TV
Now and Again is an American television series that aired in the US from September 24, 1999 until May 5, 2000 on CBS. The story revolves around the United States government engineering the perfect human body for use in espionage, but not being able to yet perfect the brain. In an attempt to get the project up and running, they take the brain of overweight family man Michael Wiseman, who is killed by a train. Given a new life, Michael is kept in an apartment where he is trained by government experts, led by Dr. Theodore Morris, in the art of espionage. Despite his new life and new abilities, Michael longs to return to his wife Lisa and daughter Heather, who are themselves discovering that not all is as it seems with Michael's death.
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Title: Third Watch
Released: September 23, 1999
Type: TV
The exploits of a group of men and women who serve the City of New York as police officers, firemen, and paramedics, all working the same fictional 55th precinct during the 3pm to 11pm shift - the 'Third Watch'.
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Title: Law & Order: Special Victims Unit
Character: Sally
Released: September 20, 1999
Type: TV
In the criminal justice system, sexually-based offenses are considered especially heinous. In New York City, the dedicated detectives who investigate these vicious felonies are members of an elite squad known as the Special Victims Unit. These are their stories.
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Title: Law & Order: Special Victims Unit
Character: Ann
Released: September 20, 1999
Type: TV
In the criminal justice system, sexually-based offenses are considered especially heinous. In New York City, the dedicated detectives who investigate these vicious felonies are members of an elite squad known as the Special Victims Unit. These are their stories.
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Title: Law & Order: Special Victims Unit
Character: Linda Maskin
Released: September 20, 1999
Type: TV
In the criminal justice system, sexually-based offenses are considered especially heinous. In New York City, the dedicated detectives who investigate these vicious felonies are members of an elite squad known as the Special Victims Unit. These are their stories.
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The Hurricane
Title: The Hurricane
Character: Woman at Prison
Released: September 17, 1999
Type: Movie
The story of Rubin "Hurricane" Carter, a boxer wrongly imprisoned for murder, and the people who aided in his fight to prove his innocence.
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Title: Sex and the City
Character: Ruby
Released: June 6, 1998
Type: TV
Based on the bestselling book by Candace Bushnell, Sex and the City tells the story of four best friends, all single and in their late thirties, as they pursue their careers and talk about their sex lives, all while trying to survive the New York social scene. 
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A Price Above Rubies
Title: A Price Above Rubies
Character: Earring Woman
Released: March 26, 1998
Type: Movie
About a young woman who is married to a devout Jew and the problems that trouble their marriage because of the woman wanting something more out of her life.
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Highway Heartbreaker
Title: Highway Heartbreaker
Character: Carolyn
Released: March 29, 1992
Type: Movie
Slick amoral con man Mickey is out to fleece attractive women. But three of them join forces to bring him to justice.
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Title: Law & Order
Character: Officer Feldman
Released: September 13, 1990
Type: TV
In cases ripped from the headlines, police investigate serious and often deadly crimes, weighing the evidence and questioning the suspects until someone is taken into custody. The district attorney's office then builds a case to convict the perpetrator by proving the person guilty beyond a reasonable doubt. Working together, these expert teams navigate all sides of the complex criminal justice system to make New York a safer place.
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Title: Law & Order
Character: Linda Maskin
Released: September 13, 1990
Type: TV
In cases ripped from the headlines, police investigate serious and often deadly crimes, weighing the evidence and questioning the suspects until someone is taken into custody. The district attorney's office then builds a case to convict the perpetrator by proving the person guilty beyond a reasonable doubt. Working together, these expert teams navigate all sides of the complex criminal justice system to make New York a safer place.
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The Jesse Owens Story
Title: The Jesse Owens Story
Character: Laverne Owens
Released: July 9, 1984
Type: Movie
The Jesse Owens Story is a biographical film about the black athlete Jesse Owens. Dorian Harewood plays the Olympic gold-winning athlete. The drama won a 1985 Primetime Emmy Award and was nominated for two more.