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Patricia Arquette (born on April 8, 1968 in Chicago, Illinois) is an American film and television actress.

Private life

Arquette is of Jewish and distant French descent. She is the daughter of the late actor Lewis Arquette, granddaughter of the late comic Cliff Arquette, and sister to the actors Rosanna, Alexis, Richmond and David Arquette. She's also the sister-in-law of Courteney Cox Arquette, who is married to her brother David.

Arquette was married to actor Nicolas Cage from 1995 until 2001. She and actor Thomas Jane have been engaged since August 2002 and have a daughter, Harlow Olivia Calliope, born February 20, 2003. Arquette also has a son, Enzo (b 1989), from her previous relationship with musician Paul Rossi.

Career

At the age of eighteen she got her start in showbiz in 1986's Pretty Smart. A year later, she gained attention for her starring role in A Nightmare on Elm Street 3: Dream Warriors
, often considered the best film of the Nightmare series. In 1989. Soon after, her career took off, and she has since appeared in such critically acclaimed movies as True Romance, Beyond Rangoon, Ethan Frome, Lost Highway, and Flirting with Disaster.

She won a CableACE Award in 1991 for her portrayal of a deaf epileptic in Wildflower. In 1997, after her mother died of breast cancer, Patricia took the lead in the fight against the disease. She's run in the annual Race for the Cure and in 1999 was the Lee National Denim Day spokesperson. She won an Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actress in 2005 for her role as the psychic Allison DuBois on NBC's Medium.

Filmography

Medium (television series) (2005)
Deeper Than Deep (2003)
Tiptoes (2003)
Holes
(2003)
Human Nature
(2001)
Little Nicky
(2000)
Bringing Out the Dead
(1999)
Stigmata
(1999)
The Hi-Lo Country (1998)
Lost Highway
(1997)
Nightwatch
(1997)
Flirting with Disaster
(1996)
Ed Wood
(1994)
True Romance
(1993)
Trouble Bound (1992)
Inside Monkey Zetterland
(1992)
The Indian Runner (1991)
Prayer of the Rollerboys
(1990)
Far North (1988)
A Nightmare on Elm Street 3: Dream Warriors
(1987)
Pretty Smart (1986)

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