Acting
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.
Law & Order: Special Victims Unit
1999 · TV
Watch What Happens Live with Andy Cohen
2009 · TV
The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon
2014 · TV
CSI: Crime Scene Investigation
2000 · TV
The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson
2005 · TV
The Kelly Clarkson Show
2019 · TV
The Late Late Show with James Corden
2015 · TV
LIVE with Kelly and Mark
1988 · TV
Medium
2005 · TV
Jimmy Kimmel Live!
2003 · TV
The View
1997 · TV
Severance
2022 · TV
The Tonight Show with Jay Leno
1992 · TV
Late Night with Conan O'Brien
1993 · TV
The Talk
2010 · TV
Richard & Judy
2001 · TV
20/20
1978 · TV
The Ellen DeGeneres Show
2003 · TV
Boardwalk Empire
2010 · TV
Screen Two
1985 · TV
Toy Story 4
2019 · Movie
American Playhouse
1982 · TV
Variety Studio: Actors on Actors
2014 · TV
Tales from the Crypt
1989 · TV
Today
1952 · TV
Intimate Portrait
1993 · TV
They Will Kill You
2026 · Movie
Close Up with The Hollywood Reporter
2015 · TV
People's Choice Awards
1975 · TV
Finding Your Roots
2012 · TV
Carpool Karaoke: The Series
2017 · TV
thirtysomething
1987 · TV
Hot Ones Versus
2024 · TV
The Megan Mullally Show
2006 · TV
CSI: Cyber
2015 · TV
True Romance
1993 · Movie
The Act
2019 · TV
Lost Highway
1997 · Movie
Boyhood
2014 · Movie
Escape at Dannemora
2018 · TV
The Outsiders
1990 · TV
Ed Wood
1994 · Movie
The Emmy Awards
1949 · TV
Holes
2003 · Movie
Murdaugh: Death in the Family
2025 · TV
High Desert
2023 · TV
Uncle Buck
1989 · Movie
Bringing Out the Dead
1999 · Movie
Little Nicky
2000 · Movie
A Nightmare on Elm Street 3: Dream Warriors
1987 · Movie
Stigmata
1999 · Movie
Nightwatch
1997 · Movie
The Issue Is
2018 · TV
Flirting with Disaster
1996 · Movie
Otherhood
2019 · Movie
Fast Food Nation
2006 · Movie
Infinity
1996 · Movie
Human Nature
2001 · Movie
Survivor's Guide to Prison
2018 · Movie
Kiss the Ground
2020 · Movie
Tiptoes
2002 · Movie
The Indian Runner
1991 · Movie
Daddy
1987 · Movie
Searching for Debra Winger
2002 · Movie
The Manufacturing of 'Fast Food Nation'
2007 · Movie
Adam Sandler Goes to Hell
2001 · Movie
You Cannot Kill David Arquette
2020 · Movie
Never Sleep Again: The Elm Street Legacy
2010 · TV
Prayer of the Rollerboys
1991 · Movie
Holy Matrimony
1994 · Movie
Inside Monkey Zetterland
1992 · Movie
The Hi-Lo Country
1998 · Movie
Vijay and I
2013 · Movie
The Wannabe
2015 · Movie
Goodbye Lover
1999 · Movie
Ethan Frome
1993 · Movie
Beyond Rangoon
1995 · Movie
Wildflower
1991 · Movie
Gonzo Girl
2023 · Movie
Abby Singer
2003 · Movie
Electric Slide
2014 · Movie
9 Kisses
2014 · Movie
The Badge
2002 · Movie
The Secret Agent
1996 · Movie
Girl in Progress
2012 · Movie
Certifiably Jonathan
2007 · Movie
Richard Linklater: Dream Is Destiny
2016 · Movie
VH1: Divas Live
1998 · Movie
A Glimpse Inside the Mind of Charles Swan III
2013 · Movie
Permanent
2017 · Movie
The Rolling Stones: From the Vault - Sticky Fingers Live at the Fonda Theatre 2015
2017 · Movie
Made in Hollywood
1990 · Movie
Pretty Smart
1987 · Movie
The Edge
1989 · Movie
Alexis Arquette: She's My Brother
2007 · Movie
Trouble Bound
1993 · Movie
Dillinger
1991 · Movie
Far North
1988 · Movie
Ed Wood: Pie Plates Over Hollywood
2004 · Movie
The Wait
2013 · Movie
Pretty as a Picture: The Art of David Lynch
1997 · Movie
A Single Woman
2008 · Movie
Betrayed by Love
1994 · Movie
Celebrities Uncensored
2003 · TV
Special Thanks To Roy London
2005 · Movie
Time Out
1988 · Movie
Twelve Years
2015 · Movie
