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Patricia Arquette: Biography, Facts and Career

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Patricia Arquette ( ar-KET; born April 8, 1968) is an American actress. Known for her roles on film and television, she has received an Academy Award, a BAFTA Award, two Primetime Emmy Awards, three Golden Globe Awards, and two Screen Actors Guild Awards. Arquette made her feature film debut as Kristen Parker in the fantasy slasher A Nightmare on Elm Street 3: Dream Warriors (1987). She has since had starring roles in several critically acclaimed films, including True Romance (1993), Ed Wood (1994), Flirting with Disaster (1996), Lost Highway (1997), The Hi-Lo Country (1998), Bringing Out the Dead (1999), and Holes (2003). For playing a single mother in the coming-of-age film Boyhood (2014), which was filmed from 2002 until 2014, Arquette won the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress. On television, she starred as a character based on the medium Allison DuBois in the supernatural drama series Medium (2005–2011), winning the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Drama Series in 2005. For her role as a prison worker in the miniseries Escape at Dannemora (2018) and as Dee Dee Blanchard in the miniseries The Act (2019), she won Golden Globe Awards, and a Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actress for The Act. She has starred as Harmony Cobel in the Apple TV+ thriller series Severance since 2022, earning two Primetime Emmy Award nominations.

Quick facts about Patricia Arquette

  • Full name: Patricia Arquette
  • Born: 1968-04-08
  • Nationality: United States
  • Known as: Actor
  • Wikidata ID: Q215976

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Who is Patricia Arquette?

Patricia Arquette ( ar-KET; born April 8, 1968) is an American actress.

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Patricia Arquette is United States.

When was Patricia Arquette born?

Patricia Arquette was born on 1968-04-08.

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