Acting · Chicago, Illinois, USA · Born April 8, 1968
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.
MovieThey Will Kill You
2026
as Lily Woodhouse
TVMurdaugh: Death in the Family
2025
as Maggie Murdaugh
TVHot Ones Versus
2024
as Self
MovieGonzo Girl
2023
as Claudia
TVHigh Desert
2023
as Peggy Newman
TVSeverance
2022
as Harmony Cobel
Quentin Tarantino: From a Movie Buff to a Hollywood Legend
2021
as Self (archive footage)
MovieKiss the Ground
2020
as Self - Actor / Founder, GiveLove.org
MovieYou Cannot Kill David Arquette
2020
as Self
TVThe Kelly Clarkson Show
2019
as Self
MovieOtherhood
2019
as Gillian Lieberman
MovieToy Story 4
2019
as Harmony’s Mom (voice)
TVThe Act
2019
as Dee Dee Blanchard
TVEscape at Dannemora
2018
as Joyce 'Tilly' Mitchell
TVThe Issue Is
2018
as Self
MovieSurvivor's Guide to Prison
2018
as Self
MoviePermanent
2017
as Jeanne Dixon
MovieThe Rolling Stones: From the Vault - Sticky Fingers Live at the Fonda Theatre 2015
2017
as Self - Audience Member
TVCarpool Karaoke: The Series
2017
as Self
MovieRichard Linklater: Dream Is Destiny
2016
as Self
MovieThe Wannabe
2015
as Rose
TVClose Up with The Hollywood Reporter
2015
as Self
TVThe Late Late Show with James Corden
2015
as Self
TVCSI: Cyber
2015
as Avery Ryan
MovieTwelve Years
2015
as Self
TVVariety Studio: Actors on Actors
2014
as Self
MovieBoyhood
2014
as Mom
MovieElectric Slide
2014
as Tina
TVThe Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon
2014
as Self
Movie9 Kisses
2014
as Woman in Park
MovieVijay and I
2013
as Julia
MovieThe Wait
2013
as Psychic
MovieA Glimpse Inside the Mind of Charles Swan III
2013
as Izzy
MovieGirl in Progress
2012
as Ms. Armstrong
TVFinding Your Roots
2012
as Self
TVThe Talk
2010
as Self
TVBoardwalk Empire
2010
as Sally Wheet
TVNever Sleep Again: The Elm Street Legacy
2010
TVWatch What Happens Live with Andy Cohen
2009
as Self - Guest
MovieA Single Woman
2008
as Storyteller
MovieAlexis Arquette: She's My Brother
2007
as Self
MovieCertifiably Jonathan
2007
as Self
MovieThe Manufacturing of 'Fast Food Nation'
2007
as Self
MovieFast Food Nation
2006
as Cindy
TVThe Megan Mullally Show
2006
as Self - Guest
MovieSpecial Thanks To Roy London
2005
TVMedium
2005
as Allison Dubois
TVThe Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson
2005
as Self
MovieEd Wood: Pie Plates Over Hollywood
2004
as Self (archive footage)
MovieAbby Singer
2003
as Patricia Arquette (uncredited)
TVThe Ellen DeGeneres Show
2003
as Self
TVCelebrities Uncensored
2003
as Self
MovieHoles
2003
as Katherine "Kissin' Kate" Barlow
TVJimmy Kimmel Live!
2003
as Self - Guest
MovieTiptoes
2002
as Lucy
MovieThe Badge
2002
as Scarlett
MovieSearching for Debra Winger
2002
as Self
TVRichard & Judy
2001
as Self
Good Day Live
2001
as Self
MovieHuman Nature
2001
as Lila Jute
MovieAdam Sandler Goes to Hell
2001
as Self
MovieLittle Nicky
2000
as Valerie Veran
TVCSI: Crime Scene Investigation
2000
as Avery Ryan
MovieBringing Out the Dead
1999
as Mary Burke
TVLaw & Order: Special Victims Unit
1999
as Jeannie Kerns
MovieStigmata
1999
as Frankie Paige
MovieGoodbye Lover
1999
as Sandra Dunmore
MovieThe Hi-Lo Country
1998
as Mona
MovieVH1: Divas Live
1998
as Self - Host
MoviePretty as a Picture: The Art of David Lynch
1997
as Self
TVThe View
1997
as Self
MovieNightwatch
1997
as Katherine
MovieLost Highway
1997
as Renee Madison / Alice Wakefield
MovieThe Secret Agent
1996
as Winnie
MovieInfinity
1996
as Arline Greenbaum
MovieFlirting with Disaster
1996
as Nancy Coplin
MovieBeyond Rangoon
1995
as Laura Bowman
MovieEd Wood
1994
as Kathy O'Hara
MovieHoly Matrimony
1994
as Havana
MovieBetrayed by Love
1994
as Deanna
TVIntimate Portrait
1993
as Self
TVLate Night with Conan O'Brien
1993
as Self - Guest
MovieTrue Romance
1993
as Alabama Whitman
MovieEthan Frome
1993
as Mattie Silver
MovieTrouble Bound
1993
as Kit Califano
MovieInside Monkey Zetterland
1992
as Grace
TVThe Tonight Show with Jay Leno
1992
as Self
MovieWildflower
1991
as Alice Guthrie
MovieThe Indian Runner
1991
as Dorothy
MoviePrayer of the Rollerboys
1991
as Casey
MovieDillinger
1991
as Polly Hamilton
MovieMade in Hollywood
1990
as Tammy
TVThe Outsiders
1990
as Rhonda Sue
MovieThe Edge
1989
as The Girl / Raped Woman (Indian Poker)
MovieUncle Buck
1989
as Additional Voices (voice)
TVTales from the Crypt
1989
as Mary Jo
MovieFar North
1988
as Jilly
TVLIVE with Kelly and Mark
1988
MovieTime Out
1988
as Lucy
TVthirtysomething
1987
MovieDaddy
1987
as Stacy
MoviePretty Smart
1987
as Zero
MovieA Nightmare on Elm Street 3: Dream Warriors
1987
as Kristen Parker
TVScreen Two
1985
as Mattie Silver
TVAmerican Playhouse
1982
as Mattie Silver
TV20/20
1978
as Self
TVPeople's Choice Awards
1975
as Self - Presenter
TVToday
1952
as Self
TVThe Emmy Awards
1949
as Self
The Last Disturbance of Madeline Hynde
Evil Genius
