Patricia Arquette
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.
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Movies (72)
Miss Representation: Rise Up
2026 · Executive Producer
Evil Genius
2026
Te Van A Matar
2026 · Lily Woodhouse
Gonzo Girl
2023 · Claudia, Producer, Director
Who I Am Not
2023 · Executive Producer
Quentin Tarantino: From a Movie Buff to a Hollywood Legend
2021 · Self (archive footage)
Besa el suelo
2020 · Self - Actor / Founder, GiveLove.org
El regreso de David Arquette
2020 · Self
Más Que Madres
2019 · Gillian Lieberman, Executive Producer
Toy Story 4
2019 · Harmony’s Mom (voice)
Survivor's Guide to Prison
2018 · Self
Permanente
2017 · Jeanne Dixon
The Rolling Stones: From the Vault - Sticky Fingers Live at the Fonda Theatre 2015
2017 · Self - Audience Member
Busty Blondes with Natural Racks
2017 · (archive footage)
Equal Means Equal
2016 · Executive Producer
Richard Linklater: Dream Is Destiny
2016 · Self
El Aspirante
2015 · Rose
Twelve Years
2015 · Self
Boyhood: Momentos de una vida
2014 · Mom
Electric Slide
2014 · Tina
9 Kisses
2014 · Woman in Park
Vijay and I
2013 · Julia
The Wait
2013 · Psychic
A Glimpse Inside the Mind of Charles Swan III
2013 · Izzy
Educando a mamá
2012 · Ms. Armstrong
A Single Woman
2008 · Storyteller
Alexis Arquette: She's My Brother
2007 · Self
Certifiably Jonathan
2007 · Self
The Manufacturing of 'Fast Food Nation'
2007 · Self
Fast Food Nation
2006 · Cindy
Special Thanks To Roy London
2005
Ed Wood: Pie Plates Over Hollywood
2004 · Self (archive footage)
Abby Singer
2003 · Patricia Arquette (uncredited)
El misterio de los excavadores
2003 · Kissin' Kate Barlow
Tiptoes
2002 · Lucy
The Badge
2002 · Scarlett
Searching for Debra Winger
2002 · Self
Human Nature
2001 · Lila Jute
El Hijo del Diablo
2000 · Valerie Veran
Vidas al límite
1999 · Mary Burke
Estigma
1999 · Frankie Paige
Goodbye Lover
1999 · Sandra Dunmore
The Hi-Lo Country
1998 · Mona
VH1: Divas Live
1998 · Self - Host
Pretty as a Picture: The Art of David Lynch
1997 · Self
La sombra de la noche
1997 · Katherine
Por el lado oscuro del camino
1997 · Renee Madison / Alice Wakefield
The Secret Agent
1996 · Winnie
Infinity
1996 · Arline Greenbaum
Tentados por el desastre
1996 · Nancy Coplin
Beyond Rangoon
1995 · Laura Bowman
Ed Wood
1994 · Kathy O'Hara
Holy Matrimony
1994 · Havana
Betrayed by Love
1994 · Deanna
La fuga
1993 · Alabama Whitman
Ethan Frome
1993 · Mattie Silver
Trouble Bound
1993 · Kit Califano
Inside Monkey Zetterland
1992 · Grace
Wildflower
1991 · Alice Guthrie
The Indian Runner
1991 · Dorothy
Prayer of the Rollerboys
1991 · Casey
Dillinger
1991 · Polly Hamilton
Made in Hollywood
1990 · Tammy
The Girl with the Crazy Brother
1990 · Dana
The Edge
1989 · The Girl / Raped Woman (Indian Poker)
Uncle Buck
1989 · Additional Voices (voice)
Far North
1988 · Jilly
Time Out
1988 · Lucy
Daddy
1987 · Stacy
Pretty Smart
1987 · Zero
A Nightmare on Elm Street 3: Dream Warriors
1987 · Kristen Parker
The Last Disturbance of Madeline Hynde
TV shows (44)
Crimen de una dinastía: El caso Murdaugh
2025 · Maggie Murdaugh, Executive Producer
Hot Ones Versus
2024 · Self
High Desert
2023 · Peggy Newman, Executive Producer
Severance
2022 · Harmony Cobel, Producer, Executive Producer
The Kelly Clarkson Show
2019 · Self
The Act
2019 · Clauddine 'Dee Dee' Blanchard
Fuga en Dannemora
2018 · Joyce 'Tilly' Mitchell
The Issue Is
2018 · Self
Carpool Karaoke: La serie
2017 · Self
The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
2015 · Self
Close Up with The Hollywood Reporter
2015 · Self
The Late Late Show with James Corden
2015 · Self
CSI: Cyber
2015 · Avery Ryan
Variety Studio: Actors on Actors
2014 · Self
The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon
2014 · Self
Finding Your Roots
2012 · Self
The Talk
2010 · Self
Boardwalk Empire
2010 · Sally Wheet
Never Sleep Again: The Elm Street Legacy
2010
Watch What Happens Live with Andy Cohen
2009 · Self - Guest
The Megan Mullally Show
2006 · Self - Guest
Médium
2005 · Allison Dubois, Director
The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson
2005 · Self
Ellen DeGeneres Show
2003 · Self
Celebrities Uncensored
2003 · Self
Jimmy Kimmel Live!
2003 · Self - Guest
Richard & Judy
2001 · Self
Good Day Live
2001 · Self
CSI: Crime Scene Investigation
2000 · Avery Ryan
La Ley y el Orden: Unidad de Víctimas Especiales
1999 · Jeannie Kerns
The View
1997 · Self
Intimate Portrait
1993 · Self
Late Night with Conan O'Brien
1993 · Self - Guest
The Tonight Show with Jay Leno
1992 · Self
The Outsiders
1990 · Rhonda Sue
Tales from the Crypt
1989 · Mary Jo
LIVE with Kelly and Mark
1988
thirtysomething
1987
Screen Two
1985 · Mattie Silver
American Playhouse
1982 · Mattie Silver
20/20
1978 · Self
People's Choice Awards
1975 · Self - Presenter
Today
1952 · Self
The Emmy Awards
1949 · Self