Patricia Arquette
Born: 1968-04-08 in Chicago, Illinois, USA
Known For: Acting
Biography
Patricia 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.
Filmography
2026
2025
- Murdaugh: Death in the Family as Maggie Murdaugh
2024
- Hot Ones Versus as Self
2023
- High Desert as Peggy Newman
- Gonzo Girl as Claudia
- Who I Am Not ... (Executive Producer)
2022
- Severance as Harmony Cobel
2021
- Quentin Tarantino: From a Movie Buff to a Hollywood Legend as Self (archive footage)
2020
- You Cannot Kill David Arquette as Self
- Kiss the Ground as Self - Actor / Founder, GiveLove.org
2019
- The Kelly Clarkson Show as Self
- Toy Story 4 as Harmony’s Mom (voice)
- Otherhood as Gillian Lieberman
- The Act as Dee Dee Blanchard
2018
- Escape at Dannemora as Joyce 'Tilly' Mitchell
- Survivor's Guide to Prison as Self
- The Issue Is as Self
2017
- Permanent as Jeanne Dixon
- Carpool Karaoke: The Series as Self
- The Rolling Stones: From the Vault - Sticky Fingers Live at the Fonda Theatre 2015 as Self - Audience Member
2016
- Richard Linklater: Dream Is Destiny as Self
- Equal Means Equal ... (Executive Producer)
2015
- The Late Late Show with James Corden as Self
- Close Up with The Hollywood Reporter as Self
- Twelve Years as Self
- CSI: Cyber as Avery Ryan
- The Wannabe as Rose
2014
- The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon as Self
- Variety Studio: Actors on Actors as Self
- Boyhood as Mom
- Electric Slide as Tina
2013
- A Glimpse Inside the Mind of Charles Swan III as Izzy
- Vijay and I as Julia
- The Wait as Psychic
2012
- Finding Your Roots as Self
- Girl in Progress as Ms. Armstrong
2009
- Watch What Happens Live with Andy Cohen as Self - Guest
2008
- A Single Woman as Storyteller
2007
- Certifiably Jonathan as Self
- The Manufacturing of 'Fast Food Nation' as Self
- Alexis Arquette: She's My Brother as Self
2006
- The Megan Mullally Show as Self - Guest
- Fast Food Nation as Cindy
2005
- Medium as Allison Dubois
- The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson as Self
- Special Thanks To Roy London
2004
- Ed Wood: Pie Plates Over Hollywood as Self (archive footage)
2003
- Jimmy Kimmel Live! as Self
- The Ellen DeGeneres Show as Self
- Holes as Katherine "Kissin' Kate" Barlow
- Abby Singer as Patricia Arquette (uncredited)
- Celebrities Uncensored as Self
2002
- The Badge as Scarlett
- Tiptoes as Lucy
- Searching for Debra Winger as Self
2001
- Richard & Judy as Self
- Good Day Live as Self
- Human Nature as Lila Jute
2000
- CSI: Crime Scene Investigation as Avery Ryan
- Little Nicky as Valerie Veran
1999
- Law & Order: Special Victims Unit as Jeannie Kerns
- Stigmata as Frankie Paige
- Goodbye Lover as Sandra Dunmore
- Bringing Out the Dead as Mary Burke
1998
- The Hi-Lo Country as Mona
- VH1: Divas Live as Self - Host
1997
- The View as Self
- Lost Highway as Renee Madison / Alice Wakefield
- Nightwatch as Katherine
- Pretty as a Picture: The Art of David Lynch as Self
1996
- Infinity as Arline Greenbaum
- Flirting with Disaster as Nancy Coplin
- The Secret Agent as Winnie
1995
- Beyond Rangoon as Laura Bowman
1994
- Ed Wood as Kathy O'Hara
- Betrayed by Love as Deanna
- Holy Matrimony as Havana
1993
- Late Night with Conan O'Brien as Self - Guest
- Intimate Portrait as Self
- Trouble Bound as Kit Califano
- True Romance as Alabama Whitman
- Ethan Frome as Mattie Silver
1992
- The Tonight Show with Jay Leno as Self
- Inside Monkey Zetterland as Grace
1991
- Dillinger as Polly Hamilton
- Prayer of the Rollerboys as Casey
- Wildflower as Alice Guthrie
- The Indian Runner as Dorothy
1990
- The Outsiders as Rhonda Sue
- Made in Hollywood as Tammy
1989
- Uncle Buck as Additional Voices (voice)
- Tales from the Crypt as Mary Jo
- The Edge as The Girl / Raped Woman (Indian Poker)
1988
- LIVE with Kelly and Mark
- Far North as Jilly
- Time Out as Lucy
1987
- thirtysomething
- Pretty Smart as Zero
- Daddy as Stacy
- A Nightmare on Elm Street 3: Dream Warriors as Kristen Parker
1978
- 20/20 as Self
1952
- Today as Self
1949
- The Emmy Awards as Self