ACTING
Patricia Arquette
- Born
- Apr 8, 1968 in 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.
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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.
MOST-RATED TMDB CREDITS
Known for
Toy Story 4
Movie · 2019
Harmony’s Mom (voice)
Boyhood
Movie · 2014
Mom
The Act
TV · 2019
Dee Dee Blanchard
Law & Order: Special Victims Unit
TV · 1999
Jeannie Kerns
True Romance
Movie · 1993
Alabama Whitman
Lost Highway
Movie · 1997
Renee Madison / Alice Wakefield
Severance
TV · 2022
Harmony Cobel · Producer · Executive Producer
Ed Wood
Movie · 1994
Kathy O'Hara
A Nightmare on Elm Street 3: Dream Warriors
Movie · 1987
Kristen Parker
Little Nicky
Movie · 2000
Valerie Veran
Holes
Movie · 2003
Kissin' Kate Barlow
CSI: Crime Scene Investigation
TV · 2000
Avery Ryan
FILMOGRAPHY
116 movie & TV credits
- 2026Miss Representation: Rise UpMovie · Executive Producer
- 2026Evil GeniusMovie
- 2026They Will Kill YouMovie · Lily Woodhouse
- 2025Murdaugh: Death in the FamilyTV · Maggie Murdaugh, Executive Producer
- 2024Hot Ones VersusTV · Self
- 2023Gonzo GirlMovie · Claudia, Director, Producer
- 2023High DesertTV · Peggy Newman, Executive Producer
- 2023Who I Am NotMovie · Executive Producer
- 2022SeveranceTV · Harmony Cobel, Producer, Executive Producer
- 2021Quentin Tarantino: From a Movie Buff to a Hollywood LegendMovie · Self (archive footage)
- 2020Kiss the GroundMovie · Self - Actor / Founder, GiveLove.org
- 2020You Cannot Kill David ArquetteMovie · Self
- 2019The Kelly Clarkson ShowTV · Self
- 2019OtherhoodMovie · Gillian Lieberman, Executive Producer
- 2019Toy Story 4Movie · Harmony’s Mom (voice)
- 2019The ActTV · Dee Dee Blanchard
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