Quiet Spotlight: Tricia Flavin - Actress, Sister, and the Threads of a Hollywood Family

Updated on: August 11, 2025

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Basic Information

Field	Details
Name	Tricia Flavin
Occupation	Actress
Notable Screen Credits	Rocky V (1990), The Family Stallone (2023)
Marital Status	Married to Neal Elattrache
Children	Three children (one named Nicole Elattrache)
Siblings	Jennifer Flavin, Julie Flavin, Shannon, Mitch, Tom, Pat
Parent (listed)	Donald Hugh Flavin
Public Profile	Sparse — occasional family social posts, select film credits

A Family Portrait — up close and from the wings

I love those moments when a single credit in a decades-old film program opens a door to a whole family story — and Tricia Flavin’s file is exactly that: a slim stack of on-screen listings that riff into a fuller, quieter life. She turns up in the credits of Rocky V in 1990 — a number on a long roll of celluloid — and then again, more recently, in The Family Stallone in 2023. Two bookends, thirty-three years apart, that whisper of someone who has moved in and out of the bright circles of film without ever needing the spotlight to define her.

Numbers anchor this portrait: 1990 and 2023 — two years that frame public appearances; three children — a private universe; six siblings mentioned in family records, including a sister who is perhaps the most publicly known, Jennifer Flavin. Put those digits together and you see the rhythm of a life that keeps its center in family even when the world demands billing.

Family table — the cast offstage

Name	Relationship	Notes
Jennifer Flavin	Sister	Former model and businesswoman
Julie Flavin	Sister	Listed in family records
Shannon Flavin	Brother	Part of the Flavin siblings group
Mitch Flavin	Brother	Part of the Flavin siblings group
Tom Flavin	Brother	Part of the Flavin siblings group
Pat Flavin	Brother	Part of the Flavin siblings group
Donald Hugh Flavin	Parent	Listed in genealogical entries
Neal Elattrache	Spouse	Married to Tricia; family includes three children
Nicole Elattrache	Child	Named as one of Tricia’s children

Those names read like a neighborhood roster — siblings, cousins, parents, a spouse — but each entry also reads like a soft-lit photograph: a sister in magazines and business circles, a sister whose life intersects with a famous Hollywood name, others who appear in records and recollections. I find that the quieter names often reveal the most texture — Tom and Pat and Mitch are more than bullets on a page; they’re the chorus in a family melody.

Career Highlights — small credits, lasting echoes

Tricia’s on-screen resume is economical but telling. Appearing in Rocky V (1990) places her, briefly, at the edge of a cultural moment — that film series is a kind of American myth, and belong on that set even in a small role places you in cinematic lineage. Fast-forward to The Family Stallone (2023), which reads differently: a contemporary, meta-family tribute that nods at the Stallone household and its orbit. Two screen years, three decades apart — that’s not a lifetime on film, but it’s a through-line that suggests presence rather than pursuit.

Beyond these credits, public information on Tricia’s broader professional life is limited. That scarcity—striking, almost intentional—turns the known into something more cinematic: she’s a character who appears when called, who chooses private life as the main stage.

Tricia Flavin

Personal Life — private scenes, family-first direction

If you’re watching the home movie of Tricia Flavin, the key frames are family: married to Neal Elattrache, mother to three children, and sister to a constellation of Flavins. Names like Nicole appear in the family ledger; “three children” is a number that reshapes how you read her film credits — not as a career interrupted, but as a life balanced.

There’s something vividly ordinary in that balance. Think of it like a supporting role that happens to be the glue of the story — not every actor wants to be marquee; some prefer the kitchen-table conversations, the school runs, the private anniversaries that never make print. Those are the scenes Tricia’s life seems to favor.

Public Presence & Media — brief flashbulbs, then home

Public flashes exist. A family birthday note here. A credit there. But no parade of headlines, no celebrity dossier. That restraint feels deliberate. In a world where every family moment can be packaged and sold, keeping some memories offstage is an act of preservation — and it shapes the narrative I keep returning to: Tricia as someone who moves between moments of public association and the steadier light of private life.

If celebrity were a movie genre, Tricia’s would be slice-of-life drama with an indie sensibility — intimate, human, compact scenes that linger because they’re not overexposed.

Why this family matters — the connective tissue

I’ll be blunt: families like the Flavins are interesting because they resist reduction. One sister steps into the model-and-business spotlight; another sibling group remains mostly out of frame; another family member marries into the medical world — and somewhere in that weave, Tricia’s life is a seam that holds things together. The dates and names — 1990, 2023, three kids, six siblings — are more than facts; they’re anchors that let us imagine a life lived between camera rolls and family dinners.

There’s a cinematic irony here: the most enduring scenes are often the smallest — a birthday post, a film credit, a family name in a genealogy file — and yet those tiny elements allow us to picture a larger motion picture: a sibling leaning on another, a mother juggling schedules, an actress who listens to the script of her life and sometimes says, “I’ll play this quietly.”