Age: 67
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Mark Patton (born September 22, 1958) is an American interior designer and former actor. Patton grew up in Riverside, Missouri and, after graduating high school, he moved to New York City to pursue an acting career. Within a few years he landed the role of Joe Qualley in the 1982 Broadway production of Come Back to the Five and Dime, Jimmy Dean, Jimmy Dean. Patton reprised the role in the 1982 film of the same name. In 1985 Patton landed the lead role in the horror film A Nightmare on Elm Street 2: Freddy's Revenge portraying Jesse Walsh, a teen whose body becomes possessed by Freddy Krueger. Patton, who is openly gay, gave up on his acting career following being cast in a planned CBS series in which he would have played a gay character. The reason being the strong homophobia he perceived in Hollywood at that time. After that, years later, he had a hard time struggling with HIV (was diagnosed on his 40th birthday). Upon recovering, he moved to Mexico, where he currently lives happily married. Patton appears in the A Nightmare on Elm Street documentary Never Sleep Again: The Elm Street Legacy, directed by Dan Farrands. Following his appearance in the documentary Patton began touring horror conventions where he is lauded as mainstream cinema's first male "scream queen". After the success he started some projects concerning his life experiences with film (including books and a documentary called "There is no Jesse").
Mark Patton
Jessie Walsh
for Jessie Walsh in A Nightmare on Elm Street: A Solemn Hour (1986)
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Six months after Jessie Walsh was incarcerated at a juvie facility for the string of murders that occurred after his family moved in the old Thompson house and Lisa Webber was admitted to Westin Hills. Another resident lived close to 1428, metalhead and punker. Carley Simmons (Christine Elise), who's grieving the loss of her six year old cousin that was killed by The Springwood Slasher years ago. She reached out for her friends to help her during this painful time in her life. Cassidy Jacobs (Ally Sheedy), Ben Wayne (Alan Ruck) and Arianna Perkins. (Elizabeth Shue). However, later that night. Arianna had a nightmare about someone trying to kill her. The dream stalking child murderer, Freddy Krueger (Robert Englund) is back to take more victims, Arianna's was the first. Not before making it look like her death's self-inflicted, leaving the three wondering what happened and Ben sensed that something was off and while trying to find out what caused their friend's death, they're being hunted down. After their encounter while trying to stay awake. Ben and Cassidy found out about a secret that was meant to be kept buried. The parents to the Elm Street kids, including Carley's took part of the mob that killed Krueger, another dark secret that Ben and Cassidy's family tried to keep hidden. Later that night and despite trying to stay awake, Cassidy fell asleep and died by Krueger. It wasn't long for Ben to suffer the same fate, now leaving Carley to face off against the dream demon
