Patricia Arquette
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.
106 acting credits · 2 directing credits
Acting · 106
Law & Order: Special Victims Unit
1999
CSI: Crime Scene Investigation
2000
The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon
2014
Watch What Happens Live with Andy Cohen
2009
The Kelly Clarkson Show
2019
Medium
2005
They Will Kill You
2026
The Late Late Show with James Corden
2015
The View
1997
The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson
2005
Jimmy Kimmel Live!
2003
Boardwalk Empire
2010
Severance
2022
LIVE with Kelly and Mark
1988
Variety Studio: Actors on Actors
2014
The Ellen DeGeneres Show
2003
Tales from the Crypt
1989
Close Up with The Hollywood Reporter
2015
Late Night with Conan O'Brien
1993
The Tonight Show with Jay Leno
1992
thirtysomething
1987
Intimate Portrait
1993
Finding Your Roots
2012
People's Choice Awards
1975
Toy Story 4
2019
Good Day Live
2001
20/20
1978
Richard & Judy
2001
Hot Ones Versus
2024
Carpool Karaoke: The Series
2017
CSI: Cyber
2015
True Romance
1993
The Megan Mullally Show
2006
The Outsiders
1990
The Act
2019
Today
1952
Lost Highway
1997
Escape at Dannemora
2018
High Desert
2023
Murdaugh: Death in the Family
2025
Holes
2003
Boyhood
2014
Uncle Buck
1989
Little Nicky
2000
The Emmy Awards
1949
Stigmata
1999
Bringing Out the Dead
1999
A Nightmare on Elm Street 3: Dream Warriors
1987
Ed Wood
1994
Human Nature
2001
Tiptoes
2002
Nightwatch
1997
Otherhood
2019
Flirting with Disaster
1996
Fast Food Nation
2006
The Badge
2002
Wildflower
1991
Quentin Tarantino: From a Movie Buff to a Hollywood Legend
2021
The Indian Runner
1991
Kiss the Ground
2020
The Issue Is
2018
The Hi-Lo Country
1998
Survivor's Guide to Prison
2018
Richard Linklater: Dream Is Destiny
2016
The Secret Agent
1996
Trouble Bound
1993
Goodbye Lover
1999
The Wait
2013
The Manufacturing of 'Fast Food Nation'
2007
Electric Slide
2014
The Wannabe
2015
Ethan Frome
1993
Infinity
1996
Searching for Debra Winger
2002
Abby Singer
2003
Holy Matrimony
1994
Daddy
1987
You Cannot Kill David Arquette
2020
A Glimpse Inside the Mind of Charles Swan III
2013
Gonzo Girl
2023
Girl in Progress
2012
Beyond Rangoon
1995
The Edge
1989
Permanent
2017
Pretty as a Picture: The Art of David Lynch
1997
Dillinger
1991
A Single Woman
2008
9 Kisses
2014
Evil Genius
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Far North
1988
Celebrities Uncensored
2003
The Last Disturbance of Madeline Hynde
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Pretty Smart
1987
Alexis Arquette: She's My Brother
2007
Vijay and I
2013
Prayer of the Rollerboys
1991
Inside Monkey Zetterland
1992
Certifiably Jonathan
2007
Time Out
1988
Betrayed by Love
1994
VH1: Divas Live
1998
Twelve Years
2015
The Rolling Stones: From the Vault - Sticky Fingers Live at the Fonda Theatre 2015
2017
Ed Wood: Pie Plates Over Hollywood
2004
Special Thanks To Roy London
2005
Made in Hollywood
1990