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Patricia Arquette
Born	April 8, 1968 (1968-04-08) (age 40) Chicago, Illinois, USA
Spouse(s)	Thomas Jane (2006-present) Nicolas Cage (1995-2001)
Awards won Emmy Awards Outstanding Lead Actress - Drama Series 2005 Medium

Patricia T. Arquette (born April 8, 1968) is an American actress. Arquette is currently starring as the main character in the NBC drama Medium.

Contents 1 Biography 1.1 Early life 1.2 Career 1.3 Personal life 2 Filmography 3 References 4 External links

Biography

Early life

Arquette was born in Chicago, Illinois and was raised in Virginia and California, the daughter of Mardi Olivia (née Nowak), an actress, poet, theater operator, activist, acting teacher and therapist, and Lewis Arquette, an actor.^[1] Arquette's paternal grandfather was comedian Cliff Arquette. Arquette's mother was Jewish, the daughter of a Holocaust refugee from Poland,^[2] and her father was a convert to Islam and a descendant of explorer Meriwether Lewis.^[3][4][5][6] Arquette's siblings are actors Rosanna, Alexis, Richmond and David Arquette. Arquette is also the sister-in-law of Courteney Cox, who is married to her brother David.

Career

At the age of eighteen Arquette got her start in show business in 1986's Pretty Smart. A year later, she gained attention for her starring role in A Nightmare on Elm Street 3: Dream Warriors, playing Kristen Parker. In 1993, she starred in Tony Scott's True Romance. Soon after, her career took off, and she has since appeared in such critically acclaimed movies as Ed Wood, Beyond Rangoon, Ethan Frome, Lost Highway, Stigmata, Bringing Out The Dead, Human Nature, Disney's Holes, and Flirting with Disaster. In January, 2005 she began starring in her first television series, NBC's Medium. Now in its 4th season, the success of Medium has made Arquette a household name. She won a CableACE Award in 1991 for her portrayal of a deaf epileptic in Wildflower. She won an Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actress in 2005 for her role as the psychic Allison DuBois on NBC's Medium. In 2006, she was nominated for a SAG award and Golden Globe Award for her role on Medium. In 2007, she was again nominated for a Golden Globe Award for Medium.

On May 7, 2007, NBC renewed Medium for a fourth season.^[7]

In April 2008, NBC announced Medium would be back for a fifth season due to increased ratings.

Personal life

In April 1995, Arquette married Nicolas Cage (with whom she would later co-star in Bringing Out the Dead in 1999). They separated after nine months, but acted as a couple in public until Cage filed for divorce in February 2000.^[8] The divorce petition was withdrawn, but Arquette filed again in November 2000.^[9]

She and actor Thomas Jane became engaged in 2002 and married on June 25, 2006 at the Palazzo Contarini in Venice, Italy.^[10] They have a daughter, Harlow Olivia Calliope, whom Arquette discovered she was carrying while filming Holes, born on February 20, 2003. Arquette also has a son, Enzo (b. 1989), from her previous relationship with musician Paul Rossi.^[11]

In 1997, after her mother died of breast cancer, Arquette worked to raise awareness about the disease. She has run in the annual Race for the Cure, and in 1999 was the spokesperson for Lee National Denim Day, which raises millions of dollars for breast cancer research and education.

Filmography

Year	Title	Role
1986	Pretty Smart	Zero
1987	A Nightmare on Elm Street 3: Dream Warriors	Kristen Parker
1988	Far North	Jilly
1990	Prayer of the Rollerboys	Casey
1991	The Indian Runner	Dorothy
1991	Wildflower	Alice
1992	Trouble Bound	Kit Califano
	Inside Monkey Zetterland	Grace Zetterland
1993	True Romance	Alabama Whitman
	Ethan Frome	Mattie Silver
1994	Ed Wood	Kathy O'Hara
1994	Holy Matrimony	Havana
1995	Beyond Rangoon	Laura Bowman
1996	Flirting with Disaster	Nancy
	Infinity	Arline Greenbaum
1997	Lost Highway	Renee Madison/Alice Wakefield
	Nightwatch	Katherine
1998	The Hi-Lo Country	Mona Birk
1999	Bringing Out the Dead	Mary Burke
	Goodbye Lover	Sandra Dunmore
	Stigmata	Frankie Paige
2000	Little Nicky	Valerie Veran
2001	Human Nature	Lila Jute
2002	The Badge	Scarlet
	Searching for Debra Winger	Herself
2003	Deeper Than Deep	Linda Lovelace
	Tiptoes	Lucy
	Holes	Miss Katherine 'Kissin' Kate' Barlow
	Abby Singer	Cameo
2005	Medium (TV series)	Allison DuBois
2006	Fast Food Nation	Cindy
2013	Boyhood

References

External links

• Patricia Arquette at the Internet Movie Database
• Patricia Arquette at Allmovie

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NAME	Arquette, Patricia
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SHORT DESCRIPTION	American film actress
DATE OF BIRTH	April 8, 1968
PLACE OF BIRTH	Chicago, Illinois
DATE OF DEATH
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