Patricia Breslin Modell dies

Patricia Breslin Modell, a longtime television actress who grew to become the wife of former National football league team owner Art Modell, died Wednesday, March. 12. She was 80 coupled with been put in the hospital for approximately five several weeks.Throughout a 22-year acting career, Patricia Breslin carried out around the NY stage, in movies as well as on television. She starred within the "Individuals Choice" television series with actor Jackie Cooper and performed the role of Meg Bentley within the cleaning soap opera "General Hospital." She also performed Laura Brooks around the primetime cleaning soap opera "Peyton Place."Other TV roles incorporated looks on "The Twilight Zone," "Alfred Hitchcock Presents," "Perry Mason" and "Maverick." Among her close friends was Lucille Ball.She married Art Modell, former owner and leader from the Cleveland Browns and Baltimore Ravens, in 1969, retiring from acting and submerging herself in her own family and community improvement.In Cleveland, Mrs. Modell was mixed up in Cleveland Musical Arts Assn., the Cleveland Ballet and also the Playhouse Square Foundation, together with other charitable endeavors.After Art Modell moved his football team to Baltimore in 1996, his wife offered around the boards of institutions such as the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra and also the Walters Art Museum. Additionally, the Modells led money towards the Baltimore Museum of Art and gave $3.5 million towards the Lyric Opera House, that was lately re-named the Patricia and Arthur Modell Carrying out Arts Center in the Lyric.Born in NY, Patricia Modell graduated in the College of recent Rochelle.She's made it by her husband two sons and six grandchildren. Contact the range newsroom at news@variety.com