Patti Love, who has died aged 75, was an actor of supreme talent and individuality who graced seasons at the Glasgow Citizens, the Royal Shakespeare Company and the National Theatre. Patti Love, left, as Bibi and Diana Hardcastle as Louise in Me and Mamie O’Rourke at the Palace theatre, Watford, in 1992. Photograph: Tristram Kenton/The GuardianThe daughter of Margaret (nee Cunningham) and Henry Love, Patti was raised in Glasgow. Patti Love (Penny) and Kulvinder Ghir (Sya) in I Miss My War at the Almeida theatre, London, in 1989. Michael CoveneyDavid Edgar writes: I first met Patti in 1972 in a tiny London lunchtime theatre.
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