Patricia Quinn

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Quinn with Richard O'Brien and Tim Curry in The Rocky Horror Picture Show.

Patricia Quinn, Lady Stephens (born on May 28, 1944, in Belfast, Northern Ireland) is an actress best known for her role as Magenta in the perennial cult-hit film The Rocky Horror Picture Show (1975). She is also known as the famous red lips that sang the film's opening song Science Fiction/Double Feature (although the singing voice was that of Richard O'Brien). She has appeared in many film and television roles including the Rocky Horror sequel, Shock Treatment (1981), as well as I, Claudius (1976), The Meaning of Life (1983), and the 1987 Doctor Who serial Dragonfire.

Quinn began her career as a Playboy Bunny in London, and met the man who would become her first husband, Don Hawkins, when she was 19 years old, in 1963. Her first marriage to Hawkins ended in divorce, but produced a son, Quinn Hawkins (born 1971).

In January 1995, Quinn married the ailing British actor, Robert Stephens, whose wife she had played in the BBC serial, Fortunes of War. She thus became stepmother to his two actor sons by his previous marriage (to Dame Maggie Smith), Toby Stephens and Chris Larkin. Quinn had also played alongside Stephens in the BBC adaptation of The Box of Delights.

Robert Stephens died in November of that year, in which he was also knighted, thus giving his wife/widow the title of Lady Stephens.

In 2000, Patricia recorded the song 'Guts To Dream' with London based band The Grand. The song was to be part of an EP titled 'Open Displays Of Affection', but the band dissolved and the EP was never released. Patricia gave a copy of the unreleased CD to the winner of the Magenta costume contest at the 25th Anniversary Convention in Las Vegas.

In 2002 she returned to Doctor Who, playing an alien queen in the audio play Bang-Bang-a-Boom!

In September 2006, Patricia relaunched herself as a DJ & club kitten, hosting the monthly Club Myra night at various venues throughout central London.

Patricia's nephew, Jonny Quinn, is the drummer of the Northern Ireland-based band Snow Patrol.