Patricia Arquette
Biography
Patricia Arquette (born April 8, 1968) is an American actress. She made her feature film debut as Kristen Parker in A Nightmare on Elm Street 3: Dream Warriors (1987). Her other notable films include True Romance (1993), Ed Wood (1994), Flirting with Disaster (1996), Lost Highway (1997), The Hi-Lo Country (1998), Bringing Out the Dead (1999), Stigmata (1999), Holes (2003), Fast Food Nation (2006), The Wannabe (2015), and Toy Story 4 (2019). For playing a divorced mother in the coming-of-age drama film Boyhood (2014), which was filmed from 2002 until 2014, Arquette received widespread critical praise and won several awards, including the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress. On television, she played the character Allison DuBois—based on the author and medium Allison DuBois, who claims to have psychic abilities—in the supernatural drama series Medium (2005–2011). She won the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Drama Series in 2005, from two nominations she received for the role, in addition to three Golden Globe Award and Screen Actors Guild Award nominations. Arquette also appeared in the CSI franchise as Avery Ryan, the Deputy Director of the FBI, starring in CSI: Cyber (2015–16). She went on to star as Joyce Mitchell in the Showtime miniseries Escape at Dannemora (2018), winning a Golden Globe Award for Best Actress and a Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Miniseries or Television Movie, and as Dee Dee Blanchard in the Hulu anthology series The Act (2019), winning the Golden Globe Award and Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actress.
Known For
Alabama Whitman
True Romance
Lila Jute
Human Nature
Kathy O'Hara
Ed Wood
Arline Greenbaum
Infinity
Mona
The Hi-Lo Country
Nancy Coplin
Flirting with Disaster
Scarlett
The Badge
Renee Madison / Alice Wakefield
Lost Highway
Katherine
Nightwatch
Havana
Holy Matrimony
Kristen Parker
A Nightmare on Elm Street 3: Dream Warriors
Laura Bowman
Beyond Rangoon
Frankie Paige
Stigmata
Alice Guthrie
Wildflower
Mary Burke
Bringing Out the Dead
Cindy
Fast Food Nation
Lucy
Tiptoes
Katherine "Kissin' Kate" Barlow
Holes
Dorothy
The Indian Runner
Valerie Veran
Little Nicky
Self
Pretty as a Picture: The Art of David Lynch
Mattie Silver
Ethan Frome
Casey
Prayer of the Rollerboys
Winnie
The Secret Agent
Self
Certifiably Jonathan
Sandra Dunmore
Goodbye Lover
Ms. Armstrong
Girl in Progress
Kit Califano
Trouble Bound
Mom
Boyhood
Jilly
Far North
Self
Searching for Debra Winger
Izzy
A Glimpse Inside the Mind of Charles Swan III
Zero
Pretty Smart
Stacy
Daddy
Self
The Manufacturing of 'Fast Food Nation'
Grace
Inside Monkey Zetterland
Julia
Vijay and I
Self
Richard Linklater: Dream Is Destiny
Polly Hamilton
Dillinger
Additional Voices (voice)
Uncle Buck
Tina
Electric Slide
Claudia
Gonzo Girl
Tammy
Made in Hollywood
Rose
The Wannabe
Lucy
Time Out
The Last Disturbance of Madeline Hynde
They Will Kill You
Jeanne Dixon
Permanent
Self
Survivor's Guide to Prison
Deanna
Betrayed by Love
Patricia Arquette (uncredited)
Abby Singer
Storyteller
A Single Woman
Gillian Lieberman
Otherhood
Harmony’s Mom (voice)
Toy Story 4
Psychic
The Wait
Self
You Cannot Kill David Arquette
Self (archive footage)
Ed Wood: Pie Plates Over Hollywood
The Girl / Raped Woman (Indian Poker)
The Edge
Self - Actor / Founder, GiveLove.org
Kiss the Ground
Self
Twelve Years
Self (archive footage)
Quentin Tarantino: From a Movie Buff to a Hollywood Legend
Self
Alexis Arquette: She's My Brother
Self - Audience Member
The Rolling Stones: From the Vault - Sticky Fingers Live at the Fonda Theatre 2015
Self - Host
VH1: Divas Live
Special Thanks To Roy London
Evil Genius
Personal Info
Known For
Acting
Known Credits
66
Gender
Female
Birthday
1968-04-08
Place of Birth
Chicago, Illinois, USA
Also Known As
Patricia T. Arquette