Patricia Arquette
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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.
Known for
Credits
Toy Story 4 (2019)
as Harmony’s Mom (voice)
They Will Kill You (2026)
as Lily Woodhouse
True Romance (1993)
as Alabama Whitman
Lost Highway (1997)
as Renee Madison / Alice Wakefield
Uncle Buck (1989)
as Additional Voices (voice)
Holes (2003)
as Katherine "Kissin' Kate" Barlow
Ethan Frome (1993)
as Mattie Silver
Boyhood (2014)
as Mom
Little Nicky (2000)
as Valerie Veran
Nightwatch (1997)
as Katherine
Ed Wood (1994)
as Kathy O'Hara
Bringing Out the Dead (1999)
as Mary Burke
Stigmata (1999)
as Frankie Paige
The Badge (2002)
as Scarlett
A Nightmare on Elm Street 3: Dream Warriors (1987)
as Kristen Parker
Human Nature (2001)
as Lila Jute
Wildflower (1991)
as Alice Guthrie
Tiptoes (2002)
as Lucy
Holy Matrimony (1994)
as Havana
Fast Food Nation (2006)
as Cindy
Abby Singer (2003)
as Patricia Arquette (uncredited)
Flirting with Disaster (1996)
as Nancy Coplin
Kiss the Ground (2020)
as Self - Actor / Founder, GiveLove.org
Goodbye Lover (1999)
as Sandra Dunmore
Gonzo Girl (2023)
as Claudia
The Wannabe (2015)
as Rose
Otherhood (2019)
as Gillian Lieberman
Infinity (1996)
as Arline Greenbaum
The Indian Runner (1991)
as Dorothy
Quentin Tarantino: From a Movie Buff to a Hollywood Legend (2021)
as Self (archive footage)
Searching for Debra Winger (2002)
as Self
9 Kisses (2014)
as Woman in Park
Evil Genius (—)
Actor
The Wait (2013)
as Psychic
The Edge (1989)
as The Girl / Raped Woman (Indian Poker)
The Hi-Lo Country (1998)
as Mona
Beyond Rangoon (1995)
as Laura Bowman
Daddy (1987)
as Stacy
Vijay and I (2013)
as Julia
Trouble Bound (1993)
as Kit Califano
Girl in Progress (2012)
as Ms. Armstrong
A Glimpse Inside the Mind of Charles Swan III (2013)
as Izzy
The Secret Agent (1996)
as Winnie
Prayer of the Rollerboys (1991)
as Casey
Electric Slide (2014)
as Tina
You Cannot Kill David Arquette (2020)
as Self
Survivor's Guide to Prison (2018)
as Self
Permanent (2017)
as Jeanne Dixon
Far North (1988)
as Jilly
Time Out (1988)
as Lucy
Pretty Smart (1987)
as Zero
VH1: Divas Live (1998)
as Self - Host
Richard Linklater: Dream Is Destiny (2016)
as Self
Made in Hollywood (1990)
as Tammy
Twelve Years (2015)
as Self
The Manufacturing of 'Fast Food Nation' (2007)
as Self
A Single Woman (2008)
as Storyteller
Dillinger (1991)
as Polly Hamilton
Betrayed by Love (1994)
as Deanna
The Rolling Stones: From the Vault - Sticky Fingers Live at the Fonda Theatre 2015 (2017)
as Self - Audience Member
Certifiably Jonathan (2007)
as Self
Alexis Arquette: She's My Brother (2007)
as Self
Pretty as a Picture: The Art of David Lynch (1997)
as Self
Special Thanks To Roy London (2005)
Actor
The Last Disturbance of Madeline Hynde (—)
Actor
Inside Monkey Zetterland (1992)
as Grace
Ed Wood: Pie Plates Over Hollywood (2004)
as Self (archive footage)