Patricia Navidad (Ana Patricia Navidad Lara, born May 20, 1973 in El Carrizal, Sinaloa) is a Mexican actress and singer. She developed an interest in music before acting, mainly influenced by her father, Jesus, and is quoted as saying that his voice has been her inspiration since she was born. When she was nine years old she sang to the public for the first time in a school festival and at fifteen made her first professional debut.
Two years later Paty saw a greater opportunity in the Señorita Sinaloa contest which offered as a grand prize a scholarship to Centro de Educación Artística de Televisa (Center of Artistic Education in Television) in Mexico City. In 1993 while at CEA she acted in Los Parientes Pobres, and several other films until she hit it big with her role in Cañaveral de Pasiones. The role was noticed immediately by the country and after three years she became famous as an actress.
From 1997–2000 she costarred with René Casados as the conductora (conductor) in the comedy musical show Picardía Mexicana. In 1998–2004 she acted in telenovelas, the most famous being 2003's Mariana de la Noche as the role of Yadira. However, although famous as an actress, she did not abandon her musical career, releasing the album Instantes in 1998 which reached sales of over 100,000.
In 2000 Patricia Navidad was awarded Queen of the Banda in the Carnival of Mazatlán, Sinaloa for the recording of the disc Don Cruz Lizárraga presenta a Patricia Navidad: Raíces de mi tierra (Don Cruz Lizárraga presents Patricia Navidad: Roots of my Homeland).
She was once involved in a controversy with Raul de Molina, co-host of El Gordo y La Flaca and with Lili Estefan, in which he made a remark that she did not like and she walked off the show, after yelling at Estefan about Estefan's grandmother, ignoring that Estefan's grandmother had died just recently before that.
Her latest role was in the successful Mexican telenovela La Fea Más Bella, where she played "Alicia Ferreira".
