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Birth Name Patricia Castle Richardson Nickname Pat Height 5' 7" (1.70 m) Mini Biography Patricia is best known for her work on ABC TV's Home Improvement as the Mom, Jill Taylor. For that show she was nominated for two Golden Globe Awards , and four Emmy Awards. Her first television series was for Norman Lear, a sitcom called Double Trouble starring Liz and Kate Sagal. She also starred in two other comedies from one of the creators of the Mary Tyler Moore show, Alan Burns: Eisenhower & Lutz with Scott Bakula, and FM with Robert Hays. After Home Improvement she took a few years off to be with her kids and then went back to work on Lifetime Television's Strong Medicine. She was nominated for her work in it by the Prism Awards as Best Actress in a Television Drama. Patricia co-hosted the Emmy awards with Ellen Degeneras in 1994. She was also nominated for an Independent Spirit Award for her first starring role in a movie when she did Ulee's Gold, opposite Peter Fonda. Ms. Richardson received a BFA in acting from Southern Methodist University and spent several years in New York doing theatre. She created roles in two Beth Henley plays, The Wake of Jamie Foster and the Miss Firecracker Contest, Michael Weller's Loose Ends, Kevin Wade's Cruise Control, and various other plays on and off -Broadway and around the country in repertory theaters. She got her Equity card from Arthur Laurents on her first audition in New York when she landed in the chorus and got the job understudying the role of young Gypsy Rose Lee in Angela Lansbury's revival of Gypsy in New York. In the last few years she began doing theatre again. In 2012 Pat did the World Premiere of Alfred Uhry's new play Apples and Oranges based on the book by Marie Brenner . Patricia is the National Spokesperson for CurePSP, a patient advocacy organization that does research, helps patients and their caregivers, and educates health care providers about Progressive Supranuclear Palsy, the disease that took her father in 2005. She is the proud mother of three beautiful people: Henry, Roxie and Joe.