1. Rosanna Arquette was nominated for an Emmy Award for her performance in the TV film The Executioner's Song and won the BAFTA Award for Best Actress in a Supporting Role for the film Desperately Seeking Susan.
18 Facts About Rosanna Arquette
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Rosanna Arquette's mother was Jewish, from a family that emigrated from Poland and Russia.
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Rosanna Arquette's father was a convert from Catholicism to Islam.
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Rosanna Arquette has appeared in both television and feature films since 1977.
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Rosanna Arquette earned an Emmy Award nomination for the TV film The Executioner's Song.
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Rosanna Arquette's first starring role was in John Sayles's film, Baby It's You, highly regarded by Rotten Tomatoes reviewers but not widely distributed.
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Rosanna Arquette co-starred in Desperately Seeking Susan alongside pop superstar Madonna, for which Arquette won a BAFTA Award for Best Actress in a Supporting Role despite appearing in the leading role.
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Rosanna Arquette starred in Sondra Locke's Trading Favors, played Angelina Jolie's mother in Hell's Kitchen and later appeared as the girlfriend of Jolie's real-life father Jon Voight on Ray Donovan.
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Rosanna Arquette has expanded into directing, including the documentaries Searching for Debra Winger and All We Are Saying ; she produced both projects.
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Rosanna Arquette appeared in What About Brian as Nicole Varsi and in Showtime's The L Word as Cherie Jaffe.
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Rosanna Arquette guest-starred in Malcolm in the Middle as a healer named Anita.
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Rosanna Arquette starred in the 2011 French thriller The Divide, directed by Xavier Gens.
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The Toto song "Rosanna Arquette" was written by David Paich, who has claimed that the song is based on numerous girls he had known.
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However, as a joke, the band members initially played along with the common assumption that the song was based on Rosanna Arquette, who was dating Toto keyboard player Steve Porcaro at the time.
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Rosanna Arquette was romantically involved with Peter Gabriel for several years, after his 1987 divorce to his wife Jill Moore.
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Rosanna Arquette has said on some occasions that his 1986 song "In Your Eyes" was inspired by her, although Gabriel has never confirmed that to be true, and has explained that he drew inspiration for the song from other sources.
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Rosanna Arquette has described her diet as "vegetarian for the most part".
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In 2010, Rosanna Arquette became Goodwill Ambassador for The Womanity Foundation.