- Auditioned for the role of Mary Ann Summers on Gilligan's Island (1964), which went to Dawn Wells.
- As of July 2010 was an antique dealer, along with her sister, at a shop in Boise, ID. She has just finished maintenance treatments for non-Hodgkin's lymphoma and is in remission.
- Selected as one of the Capitol's "Ten Most Beautiful Women" while living in Washington, D.C. with her mother, United States Treasurer Ivy Baker Priest, whose signature appeared on United States currency from 1953-1961.
- Best known for playing Marilyn Munster on the television series The Munsters (1964); however, she took over the role after Beverley Owen left the series to get married. Priest stayed with the series until its cancellation in 1966.
- When she was a young girl, her family moved from Salt Lake City to Bountiful, Utah. Although Bountiful is a small town, she was exposed to entertainment work through her mother, Ivy Baker Priest, who often wrote, directed and produced road shows for the Mormon church.
- She and then-husband Pierce Andrew Jensen Jr. welcomed their first child - son Lance - on August 29, 1958. Pat was 22.
- Is a member of Delta Zeta sorority, Alpha Chi chapter.
- As of September 2001 she was living in Hailey, ID, where she restores and resells houses. In May 2001 she was diagnosed with lymphoma, but she was undergoing treatment to contain the disease.
- Queen of the Norfolk (Virginia) Azalea Pageant in 1954.
- Attended and graduated from Washington-Lee High School in Arlington, Virginia in 1954.
- In November 2000, she was a guest at the Asheville Film Festival (now called the Western North Carolina Film Festival) in Asheville, North Carolina, along with Pamela Sue Martin, Julie Parrish, Elizabeth MacRae, James Whitmore, Soupy Sales, Rhodes Reason, Noreen Nash and Peggy Moran.
- She and then-husband Pierce Andrew Jensen Jr. welcomed their second child - son Pierce Andrew III - on July 10, 1960. Pat was 23.
- Retired from acting in 1976.
- Pat Priest's mother, Ivy Baker Priest, was appointed U.S. Treasurer by President Dwight D. Eisenhower, and served during his tenure.
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