Blanca De Garr is an American writer, Christian music producer, and child-star best known for her prime-time role as "Patty Foley," the Italian orphan tomboy on NBC's popular 80's television series, "Rags to Riches." Born on April 20, 1973, in Los Angeles, California, she is a fourth-generation American with European heritage. Her family emigrated from Mexico to the United States before the Guadalupe Hidalgo Treaty of 1848.
Blanca's parents, Rose and Richard, were married at a young age, and Blanca's father was the youngest child born out of wedlock. Her mother, Rose, was the eldest of four children, and her maternal grandmother was a former beauty queen from Guadalajara, Mexico. Blanca's maternal grandfather was a successful businessman who fell in love with her grandmother while on a business
