Patricia Arquette
Biography
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.
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Full filmography
- Law & Order: Special Victims Unit (1999) as Jeannie Kerns
- CSI: Crime Scene Investigation (2000) as Avery Ryan
- Toy Story 4 (2019) as Harmony’s Mom (voice)
- Watch What Happens Live with Andy Cohen (2009) as Self - Guest
- Medium (2005) as Allison Dubois
- The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon (2014) as Self
- The Kelly Clarkson Show (2019) as Self
- The Late Late Show with James Corden (2015) as Self
- The View (1997) as Self
- They Will Kill You (2026) as Lily Woodhouse
- Severance (2022) as Harmony Cobel
- The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson (2005) as Self
- Jimmy Kimmel Live! (2003) as Self - Guest
- LIVE with Kelly and Mark (1988)
- Boardwalk Empire (2010) as Sally Wheet
- The Ellen DeGeneres Show (2003) as Self
- Late Night with Conan O'Brien (1993) as Self - Guest
- Variety Studio: Actors on Actors (2014) as Self
- The Tonight Show with Jay Leno (1992) as Self
- Tales from the Crypt (1989) as Mary Jo
- thirtysomething (1987)
- CSI: Cyber (2015) as Avery Ryan
- Screen Two (1985) as Mattie Silver
- Close Up with The Hollywood Reporter (2015) as Self