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Patricia T. Arquette (born April 8,
1968) is an Emmy Award-winning and a Golden Globe
Award-nominated American actress.
Family: Arquette was born in Chicago, Illinois.
Her father was actor Lewis Arquette, and her grandfather
was comedian Cliff Arquette, best remembered for his
"Charley Weaver" character, a fixture on the
original Hollywood Squares. He in turn was a son of
Charles A Arquette, also known as Arquet, born c1879 in
Ohio, himself a son of Charles Arquette b c1837 in
Michigan. The progenitor of the family was born in
Canada .
Arquette's mother, Mardi Olivia Nowak, was Jewish, the
daughter of a Holocaust refugee from Poland. Her
siblings are actors Rosanna, Richmond, David and Alexis
Arquette. Arquette is also the sister-in-law of
Courteney Cox, who is married to her brother David.
Career: At the age of eighteen she got her start
in show business in 1986's Pretty Smart. A year later,
she gained attention for her starring role in A
Nightmare on Elm Street 3: Dream Warriors, playing
Kristen Parker. In 1993 she starred in Tony Scott's
ultra-violent True Romance, which put Arquette on the
map, so to speak.
Soon after, her career took off, and she
has since appeared in such critically acclaimed movies
as Beyond Rangoon, Ethan Frome, Lost Highway, Stigmata,
Bringing Out The Dead, Human Nature, Disney's Holes, and
Flirting with Disaster. In January, 2005 she began
starring in her first television series, NBC's Medium.
Now in its 3rd season, the success of Medium has made
Arquette a household name. She won a CableACE Award in
1991 for her portrayal of a deaf epileptic in
Wildflower. She won an Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead
Actress in 2005 for her role as the psychic Allison
DuBois on NBC's Medium. In 2006, she was nominated for a
SAG award and Golden Globe Award for her role on Medium.
In 2007, she was again nominated for a Golden Globe
Award for Medium. On May 7, 2007, NBC renewed Medium for
a fourth season.
Personal life: In April 1995, Arquette married
Nicolas Cage (whom she would later co-star with in
Bringing Out the Dead in 1999). They separated after
nine months, but acted as a couple in public until Cage
filed for divorce in February 2000. The divorce petition
was withdrawn, but Arquette filed again in November
2000.
She and actor Thomas Jane became engaged in 2002 and
married on June 25, 2006 at the Palazzo Contarini in
Venice, Italy. They have a daughter, Harlow Olivia
Calliope, born on February 20, 2003. Arquette also has a
son, Enzo (b. 1989), from her previous relationship with
musician Paul Rossi.
In 1997, after her mother died of breast cancer,
Arquette worked to raise awareness about the disease.
She has run in the annual Race for the Cure, and in 1999
was the spokesperson for Lee National Denim Day, which
raises millions of dollars for breast cancer research
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