Patty Petersen

Patti Petersen Mirkovich (born December 2, 1954) is a retired American actress.

Petersen and Donna Reed in 1963.

Petersen was born in Glendale, California, the youngest of three children. When her parents divorced in 1962, she and older brother Paul Petersen moved in with their mother, who later remarried. Paul Petersen costarred on ABC's The Donna Reed Show. Patti was written into the cast as Trisha, an adopted child after Shelley Fabares left the series.[1] She stayed with the show until it ended in 1966.

After many commercials and industrial films, she semi-retired to marry and rear a family of her own. She was a country songwriter/singer for a while. Now known as Patti Petersen Mirkovich, she is the founder of an Internet company for novice authors, and is a teacher of computer studies for elementary, high school and adults. She has two children, Tim and Melissa.

Filmography
  • The Donna Reed Show (1963–66) (Trisha Stone) (99 episodes)
  • Television: The First Fifty Years (1999) (Trisha Stone, archive footage)
  • Real People with Stephanie Allensworth (2018) (Self) (Interview)

References
  1. LoBrutto, Vincent (2018). TV in the USA: A History of Icons, Idols, and Ideas [3 volumes]. ABC-CLIO. ISBN 978-1-4408-2973-4. Retrieved January 30, 2020.


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