Patricia Agnes Glassop (née Kennedy) (6 July 1926 – 21 September 2010), also professionally known as Patricia Hutchence, was an Australian film and television makeup artist, and was the mother of INXS frontman Michael Hutchence and grandmother of Hutchence’s daughter, Tiger Lily. In later years she was an author.
Biography
Patricia Agnes Kennedy was born on 6 July 1926. In her teens she became a model and carried on modeling up to her thirties.
[1] She was first married at the age of eighteen. A year later, she gave birth to a daughter, Tina. She later divorced her first husband, whose name is not a matter of public record.[citation needed]
When she was thirty years old, she married her second husband Kelland Hutchence.[2] On 22 January 1960, her first son Michael was born.[3] Two years later, her second son Rhett was born.[4] The family moved to Hong Kong when son Michael was four years old and stayed there until he was twelve years old.[5]
In 1966, while still living in Hong Kong, both Patricia and her daughter Tina became involved in the film Strange Portrait, starring Jeffrey Hunter. Patricia had the makeup artist job and Tina had a small part in the film. Fellow Australian Terry Bourke was involved with the production of the film. The film, however, never saw release.[6]
In 1970, she worked as makeup and hair stylist in the film Noon Sunday. It was her second time working with Bourke.[7]
Her marriage to Hutchence lasted seventeen years.[8] In 1991, aged 62, she married Ross Glassop, a retired pilot who was in the Royal Australian Air Force.[9][10]
Death
She died, aged 84, on 21 September 2010.[11] She was survived by two of her three children: Tina and Rhett.[12]
Author
As Patricia Glassop
Caring for the family's future : a practical guide to identification and management of perinatal anxiety and depression by Bryanne Barnett, Cathrine Fowler, Patricia Glossop - ISBN0949324973 Chipping Norton, N.S.W. : Surrey Beatty & Sons Pty Ltd, c2004 [13]
Just a man : the real Michael Hutchence by Tina Hutchence and Patricia Glassop - ISBN0283063564 London : Sidgwick & Jackson, 2000 [14]
As Patricia Hutchence
Make-up is magic by Patricia Hutchence ISBN0949773875 (paperback) - Crows Nest, N.S.W. : Little Hills Press, 1988 Hardcover title - Make-up is magic, For the 1920s to now, corrective, fantasy and funISBN0949773824[15]
