Patton Oswalt
TV Actor — born 1969
Patton Oswalt is a stand-up comedian and actor known for his performances in the sitcom ‘The King of Queens’ and the film ‘Ratatouille’.
Patton Oswalt is an American comedian, actor, and writer whose three-decade career has produced multiple defining American film, TV, and stand-up-comedy roles — particularly his voice role as Remy the Rat in Pixar Animation Studios's Ratatouille (2007) and his 2016 Emmy Award win for Best Writing for a Variety Special for his Netflix stand-up special Talking for Clapping. He was born Patton Peter Oswalt on January 27, 1969, in Portsmouth, Virginia. His father Larry Joseph Oswalt was a U.S. Marine Corps colonel and his mother Carla Lynne Lariviere was a homemaker. The family relocated multiple times across his childhood following his father's military assignments.
His education at the College of William & Mary (B.A. in English, 1991) launched his early-1990s Washington, D.C.-area stand-up comedy circuit career. His 1995 transition to Los Angeles and his subsequent 1995–2002 staff-writer work on MTV and HBO comedy programs (including the 1995 MTV sketch-comedy series The Edge) launched his late-1990s American TV-comedy-writing career.
His 1998–2007 lead role as record-store-and-Web-design firm employee Spence Olchin on CBS's sitcom TV series The King of Queens (alongside Kevin James and Leah Remini) — across 207 episodes of the nine-season series — launched his 2000s American TV-sitcom public profile. His 2007 voice role as Remy the rat in Pixar's Ratatouille — the Brad Bird-directed Pixar animated film about a Parisian rat with culinary aspirations — launched his late-2000s and 2010s American voice-acting career.
His subsequent stand-up-comedy career has produced multiple American comedy specials — particularly his 2007 album Werewolves and Lollipops, his 2011 album Finest Hour, and his 2016 Netflix stand-up special Talking for Clapping (which won him the 2016 Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Writing for a Variety Special). His 2017 marriage to American actress Meredith Salenger — following his 2016 widowhood after the April 2016 sudden death of his first wife, American true-crime author Michelle McNamara, from an undiagnosed heart condition — shaped his late-2010s and 2020s biographical narrative.
His name Patton derives from the Old English place-name meaning "settlement of Pæcca's people." Patton has been climbing in American naming since the 2000s.
About the name Patton
Gender: Male · Origin: English
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