Patricia Arquette (born April 8, 1968) is an American actress. She has
received various accolades, including an Academy Award, two Primetime
Emmy Awards, and three Golden Globe Awards.Arquette 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 DuBoisâ€"based on the author and
medium Allison DuBois, who claims to have psychic abilitiesâ€"in the
supernatural drama series Medium (2005â€"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 (2015â€"16). She went on to star as
Joyce Mitchell in the Showtime miniseries Escape at Dannemora (2018),
winning the Golden Globe Award and 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.
received various accolades, including an Academy Award, two Primetime
Emmy Awards, and three Golden Globe Awards.Arquette 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 DuBoisâ€"based on the author and
medium Allison DuBois, who claims to have psychic abilitiesâ€"in the
supernatural drama series Medium (2005â€"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 (2015â€"16). She went on to star as
Joyce Mitchell in the Showtime miniseries Escape at Dannemora (2018),
winning the Golden Globe Award and 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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