“Kevin’s been a real friend,” Esten says.
Along the way, he even landed on the quiz show Sale of the Century as a contestant winning about $34,000 in cash and prizes helped him endure a discouraging dry stretch early on in L.A.Įsten also gained invaluable experience while playing small roles in several movies: The Postman, Thirteen Days, and Swing Vote, starring Kevin Costner, for whom Patty worked for almost five years as an assistant.
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(At various points, he performed for the British Royal Family, and, later, at the White House for George and Barbara Bush.) As the journey continued, Esten accumulated such diverse credits as improvisation on both British and American versions of Whose Line Is It Anyway? and with The Groundlings comedy troupe, as well as one-shot and continuing roles in TV comedies and dramas (he’s particularly proud of a brief run on The Office and guesting on two Star Trek series, Next Generation and Voyager). Patty has been Esten’s muse and partner throughout his more than two decades in show business, providing inspiration and encouragement during the hardscrabble years prior to his breakthrough gig: Buddy, a well-received jukebox musical in which he starred as the legendary Buddy Holly for more than two years, first in London’s West End and later on tour in the United States. Then he adds: “I just pulled a card out of the deck and it happened to be her card, which was amazing.” I’d been a big fan of Dire Straits like so many people, but that particular song . ” His voice trails off into soft laughter. “I only recently found out - I can’t believe I never knew this - that ‘Romeo and Juliet’ at that moment was her favorite song. “And here’s the funny thing,” Esten says as we near our destination, a popular delicatessen whimsically named Noshville.
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Now they’re with their three children - daughters Taylor and Addie and son Chase - in Nashville, where Esten has been gainfully employed since 2012 on the ABC television series about love and life in Music City. One thing led to another, and the couple eventually married in 1991. Patty Hanson, the lady Esten serenaded, took notice. Instead, we did Dire Straits’ ‘Romeo and Juliet’ - and I sang it right to her.” As soon as I spotted her, I told the other guys in the band that we were not gonna sing what we usually did at that point. I’d seen her before on campus, but I’d never met her. “I looked out in the crowd one night,” Esten recalls en route to one of his favorite Nashville eateries. It was back in the 1980s, during his days as an economics major at The College of William and Mary in Williamsburg, Virginia, when his extracurricular activities included performing as lead vocalist with a band called N’est Pas. Long before he was crooning tunes and waxing romantic as country music artist Deacon Claybourne on TV’s Nashville - and even longer before he actually took the stage and scored a real-life success with audiences at the Grand Ole Opry - Charles Esten relied on his musical prowess to impress a very special lady. As the sexy and sensitive, talented and troubled musician Deacon Claybourne on the hit TV show Nashville, Charles Esten has struck a chord with audiences everywhere.
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