Patricia Arquette
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Patricia Arquette

Born 8 April 1968 · Chicago, Illinois, USA
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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

Toy Story 4
Boyhood
The Act
Law & Order: Special Victims Unit
True Romance
Lost Highway
Severance
Ed Wood
A Nightmare on Elm Street 3: Dream Warriors
Little Nicky
Holes
CSI: Crime Scene Investigation
They Will Kill You
Gonzo Girl
Otherhood
Toy Story 4
Permanent
The Wannabe
Boyhood
Electric Slide
9 Kisses
A Glimpse Inside the Mind of Charles Swan III
Vijay and I
The Wait
Girl in Progress
A Single Woman
Fast Food Nation
Holes
The Badge
Tiptoes
Human Nature
Little Nicky
Stigmata
Bringing Out the Dead
Goodbye Lover
The Hi-Lo Country
Lost Highway
Nightwatch
Infinity
Flirting with Disaster
The Secret Agent
Beyond Rangoon
Ed Wood
Holy Matrimony
Betrayed by Love
True Romance
Ethan Frome
Trouble Bound
Inside Monkey Zetterland
Wildflower
The Indian Runner
Prayer of the Rollerboys
Dillinger
Made in Hollywood
Uncle Buck
The Edge
Far North
Time Out
A Nightmare on Elm Street 3: Dream Warriors
Pretty Smart
Daddy
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