Patricia arquette actress biography
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Patricia Arquette
American actress (born 1968)
Patricia Arquette (born April 8, 1968)[1] is an American actress. She made her feature film debut as Kristen Parker in A Nightmare on Elm Street 3: Dream Warriors (1987) and has since received several awards, including an Academy Award, two Primetime Emmy Awards, and three Golden Globe Awards.
Arquette had starring roles in several critically acclaimed films, including True Romance (1993), Ed Wood (1994), Flirting with Disaster (1996), Lost Highway (1997), The Hi-Lo Country (1998), Bringing Out the Dead (1999), and Holes (2003). From 2005 to 2011, she starred as a character based on the mediumAllison DuBois in the supernatural drama series Medium, winning the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Drama Series in 2005.
For playing a single mother in the coming-of-age film Boyhood (2014), which was filmed from 2002 until 2014, Arquette won the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actre
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With her expressive blue eyes, soft, Southern-tinged voice and an acting range that can carry her from hysterically funny to terrifying in seconds, Patricia Arquette is one of the most underrated and talented actresses of her generation. Though she has been working for years, she's always stayed just beneath the radar of true stardom, despite a 1995 marriage to Nicolas Cage.
Patricia was born in Chicago, though the family soon moved to a commune near Arlington, Virginia. Her parents, Lewis Arquette, an actor, and Brenda Denaut (née Nowak), an acting teacher and therapist, had 4 other children: Rosanna Arquette, Richmond Arquette, Alexis Arquette, and David Arquette, all actors. Her paternal grandfather, Cliff Arquette, was also an entertainer. Patricia's mother was from an Ashkenazi Jewish family (from Poland and Russia), while Patricia's father had French-Canadian, Swiss-German, and English ancestry.
At 15, Patricia ran away from home to live with her sister Rosanna a
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Patricia Arquette
(1968-)
Who Is Patricia Arquette?
Born in Chicago in 1968, actress Patricia Arquette comes from a family of performers. She earned acclaim for her work in the made-for-TV movie Wildflower (1991) and the crime adventure True Romance (1993), before demonstrating her range in David Lynch's Lost Highway (1997). While starring in the crime drama Medium, Arquette also was involved in the decade-plus production of Richard Linklater's Boyhood (2014), for which she won an Academy Award. The actress later enjoyed crucial roles in the series Escape at Dannemora and The Act.
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Emmy and Academy Award-winning Actress Patricia Arquette was born on April 8, 1968, in Chicago, Illinois. She has played an unusual mix of characters in her career, from a naïve prostitute in the film True Romance to a suburban mother with psychic powers in the television series Medium.
Arquette comes from a long line of performers. Her great-grandfather performed