- Born
- Birth namePatricia Joan Rust
- Height5′ 8½″ (1.74 m)
- Patricia Rust started her career as a child model. She was one of four Ivory Soap Girls and has also been Miss Minolta Camera and one the Budweiser Girls. She has also hosted several syndicated magazine shows and a morning show. After attending UCLA, she worked as a travel writer and spa reviewer for several magazines. She later completed the Comedy Writing Program at the American Film Insitute, where she won the Sketch Comedy Writing Competition. She was hired by NBC as a sitcom writer and won their in-house award for the Best Network Comedy Writer in 1990. In the late 1990s, she turned her attention towards children's projects. She developed "Rusty," an animated children's series for the Fox Kids Network as part of a development deal. Her illustrated children's literacy book, "The King of Skittledeedoo" has been praised by First Ladies across the country. In 2000, Ms. Rust founded The Rust Foundation for Literacy, a non-profit organization dedicated to encouraging literacy in children. She is currently Chairman of the organization and a literacy advocate for the "Los Angeles Times." She has traveled the world spreading her literacy message to over 100,000 children.- IMDb Mini Biography By: Patricia Rust
- Rust sold her first screenplay to Warner Bros. She went on to write on television situation comedies, dramas, and variety shows. She also developed a children's television show with Waylon Jennings. Based on a best selling book she wrote, she shot a pilot at KITV, Honolulu which ran into production problems.
Rust continued her screenwriting career writing her own features and became a script doctor polishing and re-writing scripts for major studios. Rust was put under a development deal at Disney. She joined the Board of Directors for the Producers Guild of America.
Rust continued to write about travel, contributing articles on travel to different outlets. She continued to contribute to The L.A.TImes Kids Page through 2013 when The L.A. Times ended the page after she had written on it for 13 years.
In 2011, she became a contributor to The Huffington Post with her blog and she contributes to the Travel, GPS for the Soul, Tech, Lifestyle, and the Entertainment sections of The Huffington Post. Her columns are popular and read worldwide.
She also became the face of Nue Science skin care in 2012 and did commercials for CVS and Target where she specializes in using her hands.
She finished the children's picture book due out in 2013 called I'll Call You Back as well as the chapter book FRIG and the novel Northlight (working title), the diary of a young boy trying to avoid joining Hitler's Youth during WW2 which she hopes will become a film.- IMDb Mini Biography By: Patricia Rust
- SpousesWilliam Blinn(May 17, 1997 - October 22, 2020) (his death)Scot Leslie Hutchison(April 22, 1972 - July 1976) (divorced)
- Power For Kids
- You think education is expensive? Try ignorance.
- In addressing UCLA Film School students and alumni: "We are in the emotional transportation business. First and foremost, make your audience FEEL. You can educate; you can entertain. And you can certainly do both, but you can do nothing unless your audience is right there on the screen with you. And, if you can influence them in positive ways, especially to the extent that they now want to jump up and go do something wonderfully pro-active, do not take your responsibility as "the messenger" lightly. You are going to influence people so please make sure your messages are those I agree with! And, if you only want to tilt their thinking a little, then do your best. Try to be a sponge in life and soak up all that you can learn. Inhale the world -- it will allow you to create so many more!
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