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Patrick Duffy is best known as Bobby Ewing of the late mega-hit series "Dallas". Duffy's additional television credits includes guest starring roles on PBS's "The Last of Mrs.Lincoln", the mini-series "Strong Medicine", and hosting different specials such as "The Country Music Award" and the "Second Annual Star-Spangled Spectacular".
He has also appear on telefilms such as "Daddy", "Hurricane", "The Strangers who Looks Like Me", "Enola Gay", "Too Good to be True", "Children of the Bride", and a much others. His first appearance of a film was on 1984 in the film "Vamping".
Duffy was born on a March 17 in Townsend, Maryland but was raised in Seattle. He started to work on drama in the Proffesional Actors Training Program at the University of Washington. During this time, Duffy became an "actor-in-residence". Thanks to this project, Duffy met his wife-to-be: Carlyn (a ballerina).
After graduation, he traveled to New York and appeared in the off-Broadway play "Natural Affection". He then traveled back to Washington and started to teach mine and movement classes. In 1975 he moved to San Diego with his family. Here he joined the San Diego Old Globe Shakespeare Company. He returned to Los Angeles and started to appear in several guest-star roles, these roles led him to star in the series"The Man From Atlantis". Following this series, Duffy was asked to star in "Dallas", which premiered in 1978. Now at days, Duffy is working on ABC's "Step By Step". He and Carlyn are still married and have two sons: Padraic, 19 and Conor, 14.
