Patricia Arquette Biography
Born: April 8, 1968
Actress Patricia Arquette is the granddaughter of Cliff_Arquette, the daughter of character actor Lewis_Arquette, and the sister of actors Rosanna_Arquette, David_Arquette and Alexis_Arquette. Inaugurating her own film career in the mid-'80s, the actress came into her own with a gallery of fine portrayals in the '90s. In 1993 alone, she was seen as the hero's cousin/inamorata in Ethan_Frome; the strung-out heroine in the stylishly violent road movie True_Romance; and the hero's lesbian sister in Inside_Monkey_Zetterland. Arquette closed out 1994 on a fine note with her sympathetic portrayal of Kathy O'Hara, the second wife of Hollywood's "world's worst director," in Tim_Burton's Ed_Wood.
The following year included a starring role in John_Boorman's Beyond_Rangoon and a marriage to actor Nicolas_Cage. In 1996, Arquette had lead roles in a number of films, most notably David_O._Russell's Flirting_With_Disaster, in which she played Ben_Stiller's put-upon wife. She then switched gears with starring roles in David_Lynch's Lost_Highway and the thriller Nightwatch. She tried her hand at a Western in 1998, playing the object of Woody_Harrelson's and Billy_Crudup's desires in Stephen_Frears' The Hi-Lo Country. Despite an interesting premise and excellent cast, the film flopped, but Arquette continued to work steadily the following year, with lead roles in the black comedy Goodbye_Lover; Stigmata, in which she starred opposite Gabriel_Byrne as the unwitting target of a supernatural phenomenon; and Martin_Scorsese's Bringing out the Dead, a film starring Arquette's then-husband Cage as a burnt-out paramedic.
Following the weightiness of the creepy Stigmata and the disturbing Bringing Out the Dead, Arquette took things in a decidedly lighter direction with her next two projects. In 2000, she played Adam Sandler's love-interest in the comedy Little Nicky, while the following year found her opposite Tim Robbins in the off-the-wall Human Nature. Written by Being John Malkovich scribe Charlie Kaufman, Human Nature was the feature debut from acclaimed music-video director Michel Gondry and featured Arquette as a woman cursed with a coat of fur covering her body.
As the decade progressed, audiences could see Arquette in projects ranging from the star-studded documentary Searching for Debra Winger to the sleeper family film Holes. Then in 2005, Arquette found a truly resonant role, starring the psychic Allison Dubois on the extremely popular supernatural drama Medium. The show would run from 2005 to 2011, and Arquette would follow it up with a role alongside Bill Murray and Jason Schwartzman in A Glimpse Inside the Mind of Charles Swan III. Hal Erickson, Rovi
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