Patricia T. Arquette (born April
8, 1968) is an American
actress and
director, perhaps best known as the star
of the supernatural drama series
Medium.
Early life and family
Arquette
was born in Chicago,
Illinois
, the
daughter of Lewis Arquette, an actor,
and Brenda "Mardi" Olivia (née Nowak), an actress, poet,
theater operator, activist, acting teacher and therapist. Arquette's mother was
Jewish, the daughter of a
Holocaust refugee from Poland, and Arquette's
father was a convert to
Islam and a descendant
of explorer
Meriwether Lewis. Her
paternal grandfather was comedian
Cliff
Arquette, and her siblings are actors
Rosanna,
Alexis,
Richmond and
David Arquette. Arquette is the sister-in-law
of
Courteney Cox, who is married to
her brother David.
Arquette
was raised in Virginia
and California
.
Career
At the age of seventeen, Arquette was first cast in a role for
Pretty Smart (1986). A year
later, she gained attention for her starring role in
A Nightmare on Elm
Street 3: Dream Warriors, playing
Kristen Parker. She won a
CableACE Award in 1991 for her portrayal of a
deaf epileptic in
Wildflower. In 1993, she starred in Tony
Scott's
True Romance.Soon
after, her career took off, and she has since appeared in such
critically acclaimed movies as
Ed
Wood as the 'worst ever' film director's eventual wife,
Beyond Rangoon,
Ethan Frome,
Lost Highway,
Stigmata,
Bringing Out the Dead,
Human Nature, Disney's
Holes, and
Flirting with Disaster.
In January 2005, she began starring in her first television series,
NBC's
Medium. Her role
as psychic
Allison DuBois won her an
Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actress
in 2005, as well as nominations for a Golden Globe in 2006 and
2007, a SAG award in 2006, and an Emmy Award in 2007 and
2008.
Personal life
In April 1995, Arquette married
Nicolas
Cage (with whom she would later co-star in
Bringing Out the Dead in 1999).
They separated after nine months, but acted as a couple in public
until Cage filed for divorce in February 2000. The divorce petition
was withdrawn, but Arquette filed again in November 2000.
In 1997, after her mother died of
breast
cancer, Arquette worked to raise awareness about the disease.
She has run in the annual
Race for the
Cure, and in 1999 was the spokesperson for
Lee National Denim Day, which raises
millions of dollars for breast cancer research and education.
Arquette has a son, Enzo (born January 3, 1989) with musician Paul
Rossi.
While filming
Holes she
discovered she was pregnant. Daughter Harlow Olivia Calliope Jane
was born on February 20, 2003.
She and actor Thomas
Jane became engaged in 2002 and married on June 25, 2006 at the
Palazzo Contarini in Venice
,
Italy. In January 2009, Arquette filed for divorce from Jane
on the grounds of
irreconcilable differences.
However just a couple of weeks later, the couple reconciled and
Arquette requested to abandon the divorce petitiondeciding her
marriage was worth another try.
Filmography
References
- Patricia Arquette Biography (1968-)
- Vallance, Tom. Obituary: Lewis Arquette, The
Independent, February 16, 2001. Accessed September 1, 2009.
- Patricia Arquette - Cranky Critic StarTalk
- Mills, Nancy. Sibling Revelry, USA Weekend,
May 8, 2005. Accessed September 1, 2009.
- Hoggard, Liz. Patricia Arquette: The not-so-dippy hippie,
The Independent, August 18, 2006. Accessed September 1, 2009.
- JewishJournal.com
- [1]Eonline.com
- [2] Eonline.com
- [3]Eonline.com
- [4] Eonline.com
- Arquette's Romance No Longer True TMZ.com,
January 5, 2009
- Patricia Arquette and Thomas Jane Are Canceling
Their Divorce StarsJournal.com, July 10, 2009
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