Tonye Patano

• Occupation: Actor
• Active: 2000s
• Major Genres: Comedy Drama
• Career Highlights: Weeds: Dead in the Nethers, Weeds: Season 01
• First Major Screen Credit: Weeds: Season 01 (2005)

Biography

Actress Tonye Patano built a number of credits on both the small and big screens thanks to roles in The Great New Wonderful, Little Manhattan, and The Savages. Before that she had guest-starred in a number of successful television programs including New York Undercover, Now and Again, Law & Order, and Sex and the City. In 2005, she landed a major part on the critically respected Showtime series Weeds as Heylia James, a matriarchal marijuana dealer who guards her turf and her family with a vicious tenacity. ~ Perry Seibert, All Movie Guide