Patricia Arquette
Known For
Acting
Born
1968-04-08 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. 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 Known For
Law & Order: Special Victims Unit
as Jeannie Kerns
Watch What Happens Live with Andy Cohen
as Self - Guest
The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon
as Self
CSI: Crime Scene Investigation
as Avery Ryan
The Kelly Clarkson Show
as Self
Severance
as Harmony Cobel
The View
as Self
The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson
as Self
Medium
as Allison Dubois
The Late Late Show with James Corden
as Self
Late Night with Conan O'Brien
as Self - Guest
Jimmy Kimmel Live!
as Self - Guest
LIVE with Kelly and Mark
The Ellen DeGeneres Show
as Self
The Tonight Show with Jay Leno
as Self
Tales from the Crypt
as Mary Jo
Variety Studio: Actors on Actors
as Self
Good Day Live
as Self
Intimate Portrait
as Self
20/20
as Self