Patricia Arquette
Known for: Acting
Born: April 8, 1968
Place of birth: Chicago, Illinois, USA
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.
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Filmography
71 movies · 44 TV shows, newest first
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Miss Representation: Rise Up
2026NR
Evil Genius
2026
7.0
They Will Kill You
2026
7.1
Murdaugh: Death in the Family
2025
8.8
Hot Ones Versus
2024
2.0
Gonzo Girl
2023
6.7
High Desert
2023
6.2
Who I Am Not
2023
8.4
Severance
20225.0
Quentin Tarantino: From a Movie Buff to a Hollywood Legend
2021
7.7
Kiss the Ground
2020
6.7
You Cannot Kill David Arquette
2020
6.3
The Kelly Clarkson Show
2019
6.1
Otherhood
2019
7.5
Toy Story 4
2019
7.6
The Act
2019
7.5
Escape at Dannemora
2018
6.0
The Issue Is
2018
6.4
Survivor's Guide to Prison
2018
5.2
Permanent
2017
7.8
The Rolling Stones: From the Vault - Sticky Fingers Live at the Fonda Theatre 2015
2017
6.1
Carpool Karaoke: The Series
2017
4.2
Equal Means Equal
2016
6.8
Richard Linklater: Dream Is Destiny
2016
5.1
The Wannabe
2015
6.1
The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
2015
6.2
Close Up with The Hollywood Reporter
2015
5.1
The Late Late Show with James Corden
2015
6.1
CSI: Cyber
2015
6.0
Twelve Years
2015
4.2
Variety Studio: Actors on Actors
2014
7.5
Boyhood
2014
5.0
Electric Slide
2014
5.8
The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon
2014
5.5
9 Kisses
2014
5.0
Vijay and I
2013
4.0
The Wait
2013
4.1
A Glimpse Inside the Mind of Charles Swan III
2013
5.6
Girl in Progress
2012
6.5
Finding Your Roots
2012
3.0
The Talk
2010
8.0
Boardwalk Empire
2010
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Never Sleep Again: The Elm Street Legacy
2010
4.9
Watch What Happens Live with Andy Cohen
2009
5.5
A Single Woman
2008
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Alexis Arquette: She's My Brother
2007
5.0
Certifiably Jonathan
2007
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The Manufacturing of 'Fast Food Nation'
2007
6.1
Fast Food Nation
2006
4.7
The Megan Mullally Show
2006
8.0
Special Thanks To Roy London
2005
7.5
Medium
2005
6.8
The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson
2005
7.9
Ed Wood: Pie Plates Over Hollywood
2004
6.8
Abby Singer
2003
5.6
The Ellen DeGeneres Show
2003
4.9
Celebrities Uncensored
2003
6.9
Holes
2003
5.3
Jimmy Kimmel Live!
2003
3.9
Tiptoes
2002
5.7
The Badge
2002
6.4
Searching for Debra Winger
2002
3.4
Richard & Judy
20013.8
Good Day Live
2001
6.0
Human Nature
2001
10.0
Adam Sandler Goes to Hell
2001
5.8
Little Nicky
2000
7.6
CSI: Crime Scene Investigation
2000
6.6
Bringing Out the Dead
1999
8.0
Law & Order: Special Victims Unit
1999
6.3
Stigmata
1999
5.6
Goodbye Lover
1999
6.0
The Hi-Lo Country
1998
7.9
VH1: Divas Live
1998
7.2
Pretty as a Picture: The Art of David Lynch
1997
4.3
The View
1997
6.1
Nightwatch
1997
7.5
Lost Highway
1997
5.6
The Secret Agent
1996
6.6
Infinity
1996
6.2
Flirting with Disaster
1996
6.5
Beyond Rangoon
1995
7.5
Ed Wood
1994
5.3
Holy Matrimony
1994
6.5
Betrayed by Love
1994
4.5
Intimate Portrait
1993
7.3
Late Night with Conan O'Brien
1993
7.5
True Romance
1993
5.6
Ethan Frome
1993
5.7
Trouble Bound
1993
3.6
Inside Monkey Zetterland
1992
5.4
The Tonight Show with Jay Leno
1992
6.1
Wildflower
1991
6.5
The Indian Runner
1991
5.7
Prayer of the Rollerboys
1991
5.6
Dillinger
1991
7.3
Made in Hollywood
1990
7.6
The Outsiders
1990
4.0
The Edge
1989
6.8
Uncle Buck
1989
8.0
Tales from the Crypt
1989
6.5
Far North
1988
5.6
LIVE with Kelly and Mark
1988
3.3
Time Out
1988
6.3
thirtysomething
1987
7.2
Daddy
1987
4.8
Pretty Smart
1987
6.7
A Nightmare on Elm Street 3: Dream Warriors
1987
7.1
Screen Two
1985
6.6
American Playhouse
1982
6.3
20/20
1978
9.2
People's Choice Awards
1975
5.6
Today
1952
7.9
The Emmy Awards
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The Last Disturbance of Madeline Hynde
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