Merritt Patterson

Merritt Patterson

Born: September 2, 1990
in Whistler, British Columbia, Canada
Merritt Patterson (born 2 September 1990) is a Canadian actress. Born and raised in Whistler, she began her acting career at the age of 15. Merritt landed her first television role as a recurring character on the ABC Family show Kyle XY. Following her television debut were a number of film roles including the female lead in the movie Wolves opposite Jason Momoa.

Most well known for her role as Ophelia Pryce in The Royals on E!. Merritt has starred in a number of television shows including the Pretty Little Liars spin-off Ravenswood for ABC Family and in Crackle's The Art Of More as Olivia Brukner opposite Dennis Quaid and Kate Bosworth.

In 2018 Merritt played Cynthia Applewhite in the film Unbroken: Path to Redemption for Universal. Accepting the award for Best Supporting Actress at CIFF for her portrayal of the role.

A long time fan favorite for The Hallmark Channel, Merritt has starred in eight Hallmark films. Four of these films being part of the beloved Countdown To Christmas.

Movies for Merritt Patterson...

'Twas the Text Before Christmas
Title: 'Twas the Text Before Christmas
Character: Addie
Released: October 21, 2023
Type: Movie
Addie is a New York City chiropractor mistakenly receives a text from “Nana.” The accidental text turns into a loving friendship between the matronly Nana and Addie who now communicate regularly. Nana invites Addie to spend the holiday in Vermont. It is picture-postcard perfect and exactly as Nana described except for one surprise. Nana’s single son, James, a traveling doctor is also home for the holidays. Over three consecutive years, James and Addie are together during the holidays, though it isn’t until they are both single that they begin to see each other in a different light.
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One Perfect Match
Title: One Perfect Match
Character: Lucy Marks
Released: September 16, 2023
Type: Movie
The matchmaker Lucy Marks meets a handsome businessman and immediately feels a spark, but that spark is ruined when she learns he is her newest client.
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Catering Christmas
Title: Catering Christmas
Character: Molly Frost
Released: October 29, 2022
Type: Movie
A fledgling caterer, Molly Frost, is hired by Jean Harrison, the perfectionistic director of the renowned Harrison Foundation, to cater this year’s annual Christmas Gala dinner. Things get complicated when Molly falls for Jean’s nephew, Carson, 30s, a travel photographer with no desire to take over the family’s foundation… until his aunt assigns him to the task of making sure the catered dinner goes perfectly.
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Heatwave
Title: Heatwave
Character: Eve Crane
Released: January 17, 2022
Type: Movie
A woman's life takes an unexpected turn when she falls for her boss's wife. She must soon defend herself as she becomes entangled in a web of malice.
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Title: The Now
Character: April
Released: December 10, 2021
Type: TV
For Ed Poole, clarity comes when a secret from his past has seemingly destroyed his future. He soon realizes the only thing that will make his life worth living is to forget the past, screw the future and just live in The Now.
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Jingle Bell Princess
Title: Jingle Bell Princess
Character: Princess Amelia
Released: December 4, 2021
Type: Movie
An actual princess has some mechanical issues and is temporarily grounded. Does she have time for a lobster roll? It is Christmas time in Maine which means snow, quaint scenery, and lots of Christmas lights near the ocean. With the crew distracted attending to the repair, Princess Amelia deplanes to walk through a magical Christmas tree lot near the airport perimeter.
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Gingerbread Miracle
Title: Gingerbread Miracle
Character: Maya Owens
Released: November 5, 2021
Type: Movie
Maya and Alex, old friends from high school, work together over Christmas to sell his uncle’s Mexican bakery famous for its gingerbread cookies that the patrons believe grants wishes.
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Chateau Christmas
Title: Chateau Christmas
Character: Margot Hammond
Released: October 25, 2020
Type: Movie
Margot, a world-renowned pianist, returns to Chateau Newhaus to spend the holidays with her family and is reunited with an ex who helps her rediscover her passion for music.
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Picture a Perfect Christmas
Title: Picture a Perfect Christmas
Character: Sophie Griffith
Released: November 9, 2019
Type: Movie
A Los Angeles extreme-sports photographer returns home for the holiday to take care of her grandmother, only to have a neighbor grab her attention as he needs assistance watching his young nephew.
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Forever in My Heart
Title: Forever in My Heart
Character: Jenna
Released: September 14, 2019
Type: Movie
Jenna and Charlie found love in Ireland but their dreams drove them apart. Five years later, they reunite and Jenna has to decide where her heart belongs—back home or in the Emerald Isle.
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Christmas at the Palace
Title: Christmas at the Palace
Character: Katie
Released: November 22, 2018
Type: Movie
Katie, a former professional ice skater, is hired by the king of San Senova, Alexander, to help his daughter in a Christmas ice skating performance. As Katie spends time in the castle and with the king, she and Alex begin to develop feelings for each other and ultimately fall in love. But will the tradition-loving people of San Senova allow their king to make a foreigner their queen?
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Unbroken: Path to Redemption
Title: Unbroken: Path to Redemption
Character: Cynthia Applewhaite
Released: September 14, 2018
Type: Movie
Zamperini returns to California where he wound up marrying Cynthia Applewhite while wrestling with untreated PTSD, suffering constant nightmares, angry, bitter and deeply depressed, his wife convinces Zamperini to attend the 1949 Billy Graham Crusade.
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Wedding March 4: Something Old, Something New
Title: Wedding March 4: Something Old, Something New
Character: Abby Russo
Released: June 23, 2018
Type: Movie
With a wedding to plan, an engagement party to throw, and an inn full of surprise guests, the road to true love for Olivia and Mick takes a few unexpected twists and turns
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The Christmas Cottage
Title: The Christmas Cottage
Character: Lacey Quinn
Released: December 9, 2017
Type: Movie
When Lacey takes a rare break from work for her friend Ava's Christmas Eve wedding, she reconnects with her former flame, Ean. The two decorate the cottage where the newlyweds will spend their honeymoon – a cottage said to bring true love to anyone who stays there – and feel their chemistry return.
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Bad Date Chronicles
Title: Bad Date Chronicles
Character: Leigh
Released: July 1, 2017
Type: Movie
Leigh runs the website "Bad Date Chronicles," which allows people to anonymously post horrible date experiences. When rival blogger Conner becomes the subject of one of her posts, they agree to date each other to see which one is the "bad dater."
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A Royal Winter
Title: A Royal Winter
Character: Maggie Marks
Released: January 14, 2017
Type: Movie
While on a last-minute European holiday, a young woman finds herself in the middle of a real-life fairy tale when a chance meeting with a handsome local leads to something more. However, things get complicated when she learns that the "local" is actually a prince who is about to be crowned King, and whose mother is dead-set against her royal son's romance with the tourist.
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Title: The Royals
Character: Ophelia
Released: March 15, 2015
Type: TV
Drama about a fictional British Royal family set in modern day London, who inhabit a world of opulence and regal tradition that caters to any and every desire, but one that also comes with a price tag of duty, destiny and intense public scrutiny.
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Damaged
Title: Damaged
Character: Taran Hathaway
Released: January 3, 2015
Type: Movie
An English teacher's life turns upside-down once a new student moves in across the street.
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Wolves
Title: Wolves
Character: Angelina Timmins
Released: August 28, 2014
Type: Movie
The coming-of-age story of Cayden Richards. Forced to hit the road after the murder of his parents, Cayden wanders lost without purpose... Until he meets a certifiable lunatic named Wild Joe who sets him on a path to the ominous town of Lupine Ridge to hunt down the truths of his history. But in the end| who's really hunting whom?
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Kid Cannabis
Title: Kid Cannabis
Character: Nicole
Released: April 18, 2014
Type: Movie
An eighteen year old high school drop out and his twenty-seven year old friend start trafficking marijuana across the border of Canada in order to make money and their lives are changed forever.
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Primary
Title: Primary
Character: Sara Jaspar
Released: January 1, 2014
Type: Movie
A young and driven executive's battles with a business rival threaten to crumble his world. When he meets a charismatic drifter, his life philosophy changes, and he decides to get everything back that he has lost.
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Title: Ravenswood
Character: Olivia Matheson
Released: October 22, 2013
Type: TV
The town of Ravenswood has been suffering from a curse for generations. Five strangers suddenly feel connected by this fatal curse and feel the need to dig in the town's mysterious and horrible history before it's to late for each one of them.
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Rufus
Title: Rufus
Character: Tracy McCay
Released: September 21, 2012
Type: Movie
Rufus is a shy and lonely boy determined to make a new start. Sure he has some quirks. So what if he likes the taste of blood? It's not like he's addicted. When a cunning vampire hunter slips into town searching for the fountain of youth, Rufus fears his darkest secret is about to be revealed.
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Radio Rebel
Title: Radio Rebel
Character: Stacy
Released: June 9, 2012
Type: Movie
High school senior Tara is so painfully shy that she dreads speaking to anyone in the hallways or getting called on in class. But in the privacy of her bedroom with her iPod in hand, she rocks out -- doing mock broadcasts for Miami's hottest FM radio station, which happens to be owned by her stepfather. When a slot opens up at The SLAM, Tara surprises herself by blossoming behind the mike into confident, "Radio Rebel" -- and to everyone's shock, she's a hit!
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The Pregnancy Project
Title: The Pregnancy Project
Character: Maddy
Released: January 28, 2012
Type: Movie
The Pregnancy project tells the real story of Gaby Rodriguez, a seventeen-year-old who attended a Washington state high-school and made her senior school project the treatment of pregnant teenagers by pretending to be pregnant.
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Iron Invader
Title: Iron Invader
Character: Claire
Released: February 12, 2011
Type: Movie
A local artist uses the wreckage of a crashed Russian satellite in his giant sculpture for the town's centennial celebration. But soon a mysterious alien substance brings the giant sculpture to life; creating an iron monster whose only instinct is to survive at any cost.
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Percy Jackson & the Olympians: The Lightning Thief
Title: Percy Jackson & the Olympians: The Lightning Thief
Character: Pretty Girl #2
Released: February 1, 2010
Type: Movie
Accident prone teenager, Percy discovers he's actually a demi-God, the son of Poseidon, and he is needed when Zeus' lightning is stolen. Percy must master his new found skills in order to prevent a war between the Gods that could devastate the entire world.
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Title: Life Unexpected
Character: Nicole
Released: January 18, 2010
Type: TV
16-year-old Lux was given up for adoption at birth but never adopted. When she is put back into the custody of her estranged-since-high-school birth parents, Cate and Baze, the three form an unlikely family.
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The Hole
Title: The Hole
Character: Jessica
Released: September 9, 2009
Type: Movie
After moving into a new neighbourhood, brothers Dane & Lucas and their neighbour Julie discover a bottomless hole in the basement of their home. They find that once the hole is exposed, evil is unleashed. With strange shadows lurking around every corner and nightmares coming to life, they are forced to come face to face with their darkest fears to put an end to the mystery of THE HOLE.