Pat Moran

Patricia Moran Yeaton (born ), known professionally as Pat Moran, is an American actress and casting director active in Baltimore, having won three Emmy Awards for her work. Since early in her career, Moran has been a member of the Dreamlanders, director John Waters's regular cast of actors, being, along with Mink Stole and Mary Vivian Pearce, the only actresses to appear in every film directed by Waters.

Biography Born as the oldest of five siblings, Moran is the only daughter of Irish-American parents John Joseph and Grace (née Swietzer) Moran. Her father was a musician and orchestra director who often performed at the S.S. Tolchester.

Moran was raised in Catonsville, in Baltimore County, and Beechfield, in Southwest Baltimore, studying at Mount de Sales Academy. A member of his regular cast, the Dreamlanders, she has played a role in every Waters film, a title she shares only with fellow actresses Mink Stole and Mary Vivian Pearce. In 1987, Moran, along with Waters, worked on co-founding AIDS Action Baltimore after seeing many of their friends die of HIV/AIDS. Since the 1990s, Moran has worked in casting for various TV shows, including NBC's Homicide: Life on the Street (1993–1999) and HBO's The Wire (2002–2008). More recently she has worked on Maryland-produced movies such as Wedding Crashers (2005), Syriana (2005) and Golden Globe-winning Game Change (2012).

Moran married Charles K. Yeaton, who she started dating in 1970. They have two children, Brook Hopley and Greer S. Yeaton, both fellow filmmakers.

Filmography as actress