Patricia "Paddy" Croft is a United States-based actress, born in England to an Irish mother and an English or British father. Little is known of her personal life, save that she was reportedly raised by her mother and has a brother who also became an actor. She left home at age 17 to be an actress.
A character actress who usually plays Irish roles on stage, in film and on television, she is affiliated with the Irish Repertory Theater in New York City. In 2005 she appeared as Madge in a revival of Brian Friel's Philadelphia, Here I Come. She appeared in Hugh Leonard's Da, and understudied on Broadway in productions of Night Must Fall, The Plough and the Stars, and The Killing of Sister George.