- Was crowned Miss American Teenager on September 7, 1963, in Fort Lee, N.J.
- In 2001, Breen's eponymous production company (Paulette Breen Productions), produced the award-winning television movie Haven (2001), based on the life of Ruth Gruber, a Jewish American journalist who fought anti-Semitism as she helped relocate Holocaust survivors to upstate New York. Breen served as executive producer. The cast included Anne Bancroft, Natasha Richardson, Colm Feore, and Hal Holbrook.
- Breen, the daughter of Gilbert and Margaret Breen, moved to Rossford, Ohio, at an early age, living with her mother and stepfather, Joseph Marcinek Jr. She attended SS. Cyril & Methodius School, Cardinal Stritch High School and Bowling Green State University.
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