Actress Monica Potter celebrates birthday with Cleveland cancer patients

Actress Monica Potter celebrates birthday with Cleveland cancer patients
By Cleveland 19 Digital Team | June 30, 2015 at 9:23 PM EDT - Updated July 2 at 1:40 PM
The Monica Potter Home line is featured in the gift shop at UH Seidman Cancer Center. (Source: WOIO)
The Monica Potter Home line is featured in the gift shop at UH Seidman Cancer Center. (Source: WOIO)

Actress

Monica Potter

celebrated her birthday with breast cancer patients at

University Hospitals Seidman Cancer Center

on Tuesday.

The Cleveland-native actress, who starred in

Patch Adams

,

Con Air

,

Along Came a Spider

,

Saw

, and the recently-concluded network drama

Parenthood

, launched a Cleveland-based cosmetics and home products company,

Monica Potter Home

, in the fall. Her first retail client is the UH Seidman gift shop.

Potter spent the day greeting customers who bought her products, taking a tour of the Breen Breast Health Pavilion, and visiting breast cancer patients, dropping off gifts from her company.

Potter's Parenthood character, Kristina Braverman, battled breast cancer in season four of the series.

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