Name
Patricia Arquette
Known For
Acting
Birthday
1968-04-08 (58 years old)
Place of Birth
Chicago, Illinois, USA
Biography
Patricia T. 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
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- 1993 True Romance as Alabama Whitman
- 2001 Human Nature as Lila Jute
- 1994 Ed Wood as Kathy O'Hara
- 1996 Infinity as Arline Greenbaum
- 1998 The Hi-Lo Country as Mona
- 1996 Flirting with Disaster as Nancy Coplin
- 2002 The Badge as Scarlett
- 1997 Lost Highway as Renee Madison / Alice Wakefield
- 1997 Nightwatch as Katherine
- 1994 Holy Matrimony as Havana
- 1987 A Nightmare on Elm Street 3: Dream Warriors as Kristen Parker
- 1995 Beyond Rangoon as Laura Bowman
- 1999 Stigmata as Frankie Paige
- 1991 Wildflower as Alice Guthrie
- 1999 Bringing Out the Dead as Mary Burke
- 2006 Fast Food Nation as Cindy
- 2003 Holes as Katherine "Kissin' Kate" Barlow
- 2002 Tiptoes as Lucy
- 1991 The Indian Runner as Dorothy
- 2000 Little Nicky as Valerie Veran
- 1997 Pretty as a Picture: The Art of David Lynch as Self
- 1993 Ethan Frome as Mattie Silver
- 1991 Prayer of the Rollerboys as Casey
- 1996 The Secret Agent as Winnie
- 2007 Certifiably Jonathan as Self
- 1999 Goodbye Lover as Sandra Dunmore
- 2012 Girl in Progress as Ms. Armstrong
- 1993 Trouble Bound as Kit Califano
- 2014 Boyhood as Mom
- 1988 Far North as Jilly
- 2002 Searching for Debra Winger as Self
- 2013 A Glimpse Inside the Mind of Charles Swan III as Izzy
- 1987 Pretty Smart as Zero
- 1987 Daddy as Stacy
- 2007 The Manufacturing of 'Fast Food Nation' as Self
- 1992 Inside Monkey Zetterland as Grace
- 2013 Vijay and I as Julia
- 2016 Richard Linklater: Dream Is Destiny as Self
- 1991 Dillinger as Polly Hamilton
- 1989 Uncle Buck as Additional Voices (voice)
- 2014 Electric Slide as Tina
- 2023 Gonzo Girl as Claudia
- 1990 Made in Hollywood as Tammy
- 2015 The Wannabe as Rose
- 1988 Time Out as Lucy
- Soon The Last Disturbance of Madeline Hynde
- 2026 They Will Kill You as Lily Woodhouse
- 2017 Permanent as Jeanne Dixon
- 2018 Survivor's Guide to Prison as Self
- 1994 Betrayed by Love as Deanna
- 2003 Abby Singer as Patricia Arquette (uncredited)
- 2008 A Single Woman as Storyteller
- 2019 Otherhood as Gillian Lieberman
- 2019 Toy Story 4 as Harmony’s Mom (voice)
- 2013 The Wait as Psychic
- 2020 You Cannot Kill David Arquette as Self
- 2004 Ed Wood: Pie Plates Over Hollywood as Self (archive footage)
- 1989 The Edge as The Girl / Raped Woman (Indian Poker)
- 2020 Kiss the Ground as Self - Actor / Founder, GiveLove.org
- 2015 Twelve Years as Self
- 2021 Quentin Tarantino: From a Movie Buff to a Hollywood Legend as Self (archive footage)
- 2007 Alexis Arquette: She's My Brother as Self
- 2017 The Rolling Stones: From the Vault - Sticky Fingers Live at the Fonda Theatre 2015 as Self - Audience Member
- 1998 VH1: Divas Live as Self - Host
- 2005 Special Thanks To Roy London
- 2026 Evil Genius
- 2014 9 Kisses as Woman in Park
- 2001 Adam Sandler Goes to Hell as Self
- 2005 Medium ( 128 episodes ) as Allison Dubois
- 2003 The Ellen DeGeneres Show ( 3 episodes ) as Self
- 1987 thirtysomething ( 1 episode )
- 1952 Today ( 3 episodes ) as Self
- 1988 LIVE with Kelly and Mark ( 1 episode )
- 1989 Tales from the Crypt ( 1 episode ) as Mary Jo
- 1997 The View ( 3 episodes ) as Self
- 2023 High Desert ( 8 episodes ) as Peggy Newman
- 1992 The Tonight Show with Jay Leno ( 2 episodes ) as Self
- 2001 Richard & Judy ( 1 episode ) as Self
- 2012 Finding Your Roots ( 1 episode ) as Self
- 1993 Late Night with Conan O'Brien ( 1 episode ) as Self - Guest
- 2003 Celebrities Uncensored ( 2 episodes ) as Self
- 2005 The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson ( 1 episode ) as Self
- 2017 Carpool Karaoke: The Series ( 1 episode ) as Self
- 2001 Good Day Live ( 1 episode ) as Self
- 2000 CSI: Crime Scene Investigation ( 2 episodes ) as Avery Ryan
- 2015 The Late Late Show with James Corden ( 1 episode ) as Self
- 2015 CSI: Cyber ( 31 episodes ) as Avery Ryan
- 1999 Law & Order: Special Victims Unit ( 1 episode ) as Jeannie Kerns
- 1993 Intimate Portrait ( 1 episode ) as Self
- 2018 The Issue Is ( 1 episode ) as Self
- 2018 Escape at Dannemora ( 7 episodes ) as Joyce 'Tilly' Mitchell
- 2014 The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon ( 1 episode ) as Self
- 2014 Variety Studio: Actors on Actors ( 2 episodes ) as Self
- 2009 Watch What Happens Live with Andy Cohen ( 5 episodes ) as Self - Guest
- 2019 The Act ( 8 episodes ) as Dee Dee Blanchard
- 2022 Severance ( 19 episodes ) as Harmony Cobel
- 2015 Close Up with The Hollywood Reporter ( 1 episode ) as Self
- 1990 The Outsiders ( 1 episode ) as Rhonda Sue
- 2025 Murdaugh: Death in the Family ( 8 episodes ) as Maggie Murdaugh
- 2006 The Megan Mullally Show ( 1 episode ) as Self - Guest
- 2019 The Kelly Clarkson Show ( 1 episode ) as Self
- 2024 Hot Ones Versus ( 1 episode ) as Self
- 1949 The Emmy Awards ( 1 episode ) as Self
- 2003 Jimmy Kimmel Live! ( 1 episode ) as Self - Guest
- 1978 20/20 ( 1 episode ) as Self
- 1975 People's Choice Awards ( 1 episode ) as Self - Presenter
- 2010 Boardwalk Empire ( 10 episodes ) as Sally Wheet
- 1985 Screen Two ( 1 episode ) as Mattie Silver
- 2010 The Talk ( 1 episode ) as Self
- 1982 American Playhouse ( 1 episode ) as Mattie Silver
- 2010 Never Sleep Again: The Elm Street Legacy ( 2 episodes )
- 2015 The Late Show with Stephen Colbert ( 1 episode ) as Self
