Abrams are returning to produce, with Don Granger and Matt Grimm set to serve as executive producers. Tom Cruise, David Ellison, Dana Goldberg and J.J. With the franchise’s fifth installment, Mission: Impossible – Rogue Nation, set to bow this July, Paramount, Bad Robot and Skydance Productions are already in motion on a sixth installment tentatively titled MISSION: IMPOSSIBLE 6. “Hollywood knows that you can’t do all these white films anymore - diversity is more interesting.”īen Arogundade’s new book about online dating is out now.〉The studio is in development on the next installment of the hit Tom Cruise franchise. “I’ve found that many of the big movies do not make race an issue in their casting,” says Patton, who plays agent Jane Carter in Mission Impossible 4: Ghost Protocol.
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The Mission Impossible movie series has been proactive in casting biracial women to play opposite Tom Cruise, beginning with British star Thandie Newton in Mission Impossible II. Aesthetically, she fits the traditional blueprint for Hollywood's preferred image of black actresses - lighter-skinned and straighter haired - especially in crossover roles opposite white male co-stars. MISSION IMPOSSIBLE MIXED CAST Back in 2011 the blurred lines of her ethnicity led to her featuring on the cover of the December edition of Arabian Harper's Bazaar, hinting at the actresses ability to appear multi-ethnic - a fact which affords her the advantage of being cast in a broad variety of movie roles. The total of queries about the Hollywood star's ethnicity, nationality and parents racial background adds up to approximately 100,000 per month. According to Google's statistics, approximately 1,500 global Internet users per month search the terms “Paula Patton ethnicity”, and “Is Paula Patton black?”, while a further 4,400 Google Paula's mother, Joyce Patton Vanraden. PATTON, RACE & GOOGLE Despite the fact that Patton - who is 5' 7¼" (1.71m) tall - self-identifies as black, many of her fans on the Internet are curious about the precise details of her ethnicity and nationality. They separated in February 2014, and were subsequently divorced in April 2015. The couple later went public, finally getting married in 2005. “In high school she didn’t take me to her prom, because she didn’t want everyone to know she was with a white guy, because she was president of the Black Student Union,” Thicke recalled. During a radio interview with DJ Howard Stern, the music star revealed how the young couple initially kept their relationship a secret when they first began dating, for fear of a backlash from the African American college community where Patton studied. RACE MATTERS The reality of mixed race relationships in America also affected the early years of her partnership with her ex-husband, white singer-songwriter Robin Thicke. People aren't calling Barack Obama biracial.” “It's a way for people to separate themselves from African Americans.a way of saying, 'I'm better than that.' I'm black because that's the way the world sees me. Like them, she also holds strong views on race and its diversity of classifications. I didn't want to be part of the black race.”īLACK, BIRACIAL, MIXED RACE? Patton’s childhood experiences were similar to those of other biracial women actors such as Thandie Newton (herself an ex-Mission Impossible cast member) and Halle Berry. “People judged me because I was light-skinned,” the 43-year-old actress revealed in Women's Health magazine. Given the racial background of her parents, growing up in LA in the 1970s and 80s was beset with challenges. Her father, African American Charles Patton, is a former defence attorney, while her mother - ex-schoolteacher Joyce Patton Vanraden - is of German ancestry. PAULA PATTON'S ETHNICITY & PARENTS BIO The African American star of the films Hitch, Deja Vu, Precious, Mission Impossible 4: Ghost Protocol and the upcoming Warcraft, was born Paula Maxine Patton in Los Angeles, California, on December 5, 1975. I wouldn’t take a photo, and I couldn’t look anyone in the eye.”
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“I had terrible skin all through college,” she recalled. “I was shy, and acting did not seem like a solid profession.” Surprisingly, given Patton's beauty, her progress was also hampered by her appearance.
“I got my first big acting job when I was 28!” Patton told The New York Times. But although her career got off to a promising start, securing parts in high school plays, it would take a while before she finally got her big break. SHE GREW UP ACROSS the street from the 20th Century Fox film studios in Los Angeles, and so perhaps it was fate that Paula Patton would end up in the Hollywood movie business.