Modell, also known as Patricia Breslin, started acting on television in 1949 when she played roles in THE PHILCO-GOODYEAR TELEVISION PLAYHOUSE.
She appeared in the TV series THE PEOPLE'S CHOICE opposite Jackie Cooper and played Laura Brooks in the primetime soap opera PEYTON PLACE.
Her last television role was as Nurse Meg Bentley Baldwin in GENERAL HOSPITAL in the late 1960s.
Meg was a widow she came to Port Charles with her young son Scotty Bentley (later Scott Baldwin) and teenage stepdaughter Brooke.