Patricia Tiffany Arquette was born on April 8,1968 and is an American actress.
44 Facts About Patricia Arquette
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Patricia Arquette made her feature film debut as Kristen Parker in A Nightmare on Elm Street 3: Dream Warriors.
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For playing a single mother in the coming-of-age film Boyhood, which was filmed from 2002 until 2014, Arquette won the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress.
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Patricia Arquette 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 nominations at the Golden Globe Awards and Screen Actors Guild Awards, respectively.
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Patricia Arquette appeared in the CSI franchise as Avery Ryan, the Deputy Director of the FBI, starring in CSI: Cyber.
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Patricia Arquette went on to star as Joyce Mitchell in the Showtime miniseries Escape at Dannemora, winning the Golden Globe Award and 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, winning the Golden Globe Award and Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actress.
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Patricia Arquette was born in Chicago, Illinois, in 1968 to Lewis Patricia Arquette, an actor, and Brenda Olivia "Mardi", who was involved in the arts and worked as a therapist.
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Patricia Arquette's mother was Jewish, and her ancestors emigrated from Poland and Russia.
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Patricia Arquette has said they became poorer the longer they lived there and she believes that experience enlarged her empathy.
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Patricia Arquette's father was an alcoholic; her mother was violently abusive.
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Patricia Arquette attended Catholic school, and has said that when she was a teenager, she had wanted to be a nun.
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Patricia Arquette put this career prospect aside briefly in an attempt to gain acting jobs and gained success in the industry.
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In 1987, Patricia Arquette's first starring roles included pregnant teenager Stacy in the television film Daddy, boarding school student Zero in Pretty Smart, and Kristen Parker in A Nightmare on Elm Street 3: Dream Warriors, alongside Robert Englund as Freddy Krueger and Heather Langenkamp as Nancy Thompson.
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Patricia Arquette reprised her role as Kristen in the music video to Dokken's Dream Warriors.
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Patricia Arquette was asked to reprise her role in the sequel, A Nightmare on Elm Street 4: The Dream Master, but she declined the offer in order to do other projects.
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Patricia Arquette gave up the role of Tralala in Last Exit to Brooklyn due to her pregnancy with her son Enzo.
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In 1988, Patricia Arquette played the daughter of Tess Harper in Far North.
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In one scene, Patricia Arquette puts up a fierce physical struggle in a fight with James Gandolfini which her character ultimately wins.
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Janet Maslin of The New York Times remarked that Patricia Arquette played her role with "surprising sweetness", while Peter Travers remarked that "Patricia Arquette delivers sensationally".
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Patricia Arquette next appeared in the television film Betrayed by Love, and the well-received biopic Ed Wood, directed by Tim Burton and starring Johnny Depp, where she portrayed his girlfriend.
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Patricia Arquette's next role was as Laura Bowman in John Boorman's Beyond Rangoon, which drew mixed critical reviews, but was a success internationally.
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Patricia Arquette appeared in three films in 1996, the first the comedy film Flirting with Disaster, about a young man's cross-country pursuit to find his parents.
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Critical reception was largely positive, with Todd McCarthy of Variety praising the film and the authenticity of Patricia Arquette's performance, highlighting that "Patricia Arquette [is] very believably distracted and infuriated".
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In 1997, Patricia Arquette starred in David Lynch's neo-noir psychological thriller Lost Highway, in dual roles as Renee Madison and Alice Wakefield.
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Roger Ebert, of the Chicago Sun-Times, disliked the film, saying there was "no sense to be made of it" and voiced his distaste over a scene in which Patricia Arquette's character is asked to disrobe at gunpoint.
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In 1998, Patricia Arquette performed in two films: Goodbye Lover, a comedic neo-noir directed by Roland Joffe and The Hi-Lo Country, a period Western directed by Stephen Frears.
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Patricia Arquette then appeared in Martin Scorsese's Bringing out the Dead, based on the novel by Joe Connelly.
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In January 2005, Patricia Arquette made her first transition to television with NBC's Medium.
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Patricia Arquette did not appear in another film until 2012.
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Girl in Progress, a drama directed by Patricia Arquette Riggen, marked her return; it was met with negative reviews.
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Also in 2013, Patricia Arquette filmed the true crime drama Electric Slide.
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Critic Katie McDonahugh, writing for Salon, states "the role gave [Patricia Arquette] space to be all of these messy things at once, and her performance was a raw, gutsy meditation on those profoundly human contradictions".
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Patricia Arquette won the Academy Award, BAFTA, Critics' Choice, Golden Globe, Independent Spirit, and SAG Award for Best Supporting Actress.
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In early 2015, Patricia Arquette began starring in the CBS series CSI: Cyber, a show about FBI agents who combat Internet-based crimes.
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Patricia Arquette portrayed Tilly Mitchell in the Ben Stiller-directed Showtime miniseries Escape at Dannemora, which premiered on November 18,2018.
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Patricia Arquette received a nomination for the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Limited Series or Movie.
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In 2018, it was announced that Patricia Arquette would be starring in the Hulu series The Act.
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In 2022, Patricia Arquette began co-starring in the Apple TV+ thriller series Severance, directed by Stiller.
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At age 20, Patricia Arquette had a relationship with Paul Rossi, a musician.
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In January 2009, Patricia Arquette filed for divorce from Jane on the grounds of irreconcilable differences, but the couple soon reconciled.
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Patricia Arquette has worked with Eracism Foundation, Libby Ross Foundation, The Art of Elysium, and The Heart Truth.
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In 1997, after her mother died of breast cancer, Patricia Arquette worked to raise awareness about the disease.
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Patricia Arquette has run in the annual Race for the Cure.
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Patricia Arquette participated in the 2017 Women's March against President Donald Trump.