Patricia Arquette’s biography
Patricia Arquette is a renowned actress and a philanthropist, well recognized and highly regarded in the cinema industry. Throughout her career, she was nominated and has won numerous prestigious awards including the Primetime Emmy Award, the Golden Globe Award, the BAFTA Film Award, and others. Net worth: $24 million.
Pictured: Patricia Arquette
Childhood and family
Patricia Arquette was born on April 8, 1968, in Chicago. Her father, Lewis Arquette was an actor, writer and producer, and manager of an improvisational comedy theater troupe The Second City, based in Chicago. In the late ‘60s, Lewis grew tired of the industrial city’s hustle and bustle and relocated to a rural Subud commune and converted to Islam.
Patricia’s mother, Brenda Arquette, was a therapist. Being a loyal and loving wife, she took Patricia and three sons and moved to Bentonville, where the commune was situated. That’s where the Arquette kids spent the majority of their childhood. Brenda’s oldest daughter, Rosanna, was trying to make a name for herself in Hollywood and lived separately at the time.
Patricia’s grandfather was a well-known and loved comedian and an actor, and it was no surprise that all the Arquette children decided to follow in his footsteps and connect their lives with the cinema industry in one way or another.
According to Patricia, her father was an alcoholic and a drug-addict, and her mom was overbearing, even authoritarian at times. The girl hated the home environment and ran away to Los Angeles to be with Rosanna when she was only 13.
The beginning of acting career
Soon after graduating from high school, Patricia landed her first role in a comedy-drama Pretty Smart (1986) where she portrayed Tricia Leigh Fisher’s character best friend. A year later, Arquette was cast as Kristen in the third film of a legendary fantasy slasher franchise Nightmare on Elm Street.
Patricia Arquette in A Nightmare on Elm Street 3: Dream Warriors
A snapshot from Wildflower
Patricia went on to star in a 1993 neo-noir crime film Trouble Bound where she portrayed an unhinged daughter of a mob member falling in love with an ex-convicted player Michael Madsen.
A snapshot from Trouble Bound
Arquette’s best works
According to Zoomboola.com, in 1996, Arquette appeared in a black comedy film Flirting with Disaster alongside Josh Brolin and Ben Stiller, and a year later worked with Ewan McGregor and Nick Nolte on the set of a horror-thriller Nightwatch.
Patricia Arquette in Flirting with Disaster
A snapshot from Lost Highway
Patricia Arquette and Nicolas Cage in Bringing Out the Dead
Oscar for Boyhood
In 2013, Patricia appeared in a period crime drama television series Boardwalk Empire where she worked alongside Steve Buscemi, Kelly Macdonald, and Stephen Graham.
Patricia Arquette in Boardwalk Empire
The production of Boyhood lasted for 12 years as the director wanted to show the process of growing up of the main character and the members of his family in real life, so to say. Patricia received an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress.
Patricia Arquette at the Oscar ceremony
Patricia Arquette at the beginning and at the end of filming Boyhood
Patricia Arquette’s personal life
Patricia Arquette married Nicolas Cage in 1995. He’s been trying to woo Patricia since the late ‘80s for eight years but she’s been ignoring his advances and even gave birth to a son from another man.
Nicolas Cage with Patricia Arquette
Patricia Arquette`s teeth
Patricia Arquette and Thomas Jane
Patricia Arquette with daughter
Her older sister Rosanna, as well as her three brothers, is connected to the film industry.
Patricia with her sister Rosanna
Patricia Arquette today
According to Patricia, she takes on roles only if she feels they are relatable to the audience and will speak to them on some level, leaving a great impact.
There really is a lot of pressure on actresses to look a strange and unrealistic way. You might be 50 but you need to talk 35. Nonsense.
In 2018, Arquette was cast in a television limited drama series Escape at Dannemora alongside Benicio del Toro, David Morse, Paul Dano, and Michael Imperioli. She portrayed a prison worker who becomes romantically involved with two convicts and helps them escape. The actress was praised by the critics and her marvelous performance yielded another Golden Globe Award.
By the end of 2018, Patricia finished working on a true-crime drama television series The Act. The series is based on true events and tells the story of a young girl named Gypsy Rose Blanchard who killed her own mother Dee Dee in 2015. Patricia portrayed Dee Dee, a controlling woman with Munchausen syndrome by proxy, who deceived her own daughter and everyone else around her for years. The cast of The Act included Joey King, Steve Coulter, Chloë Sevigny and AnnaSophia Robb. The premiere took place in 2019.
Also in 2019, the premiere of the film "Otherhood" and the cartoon "Toy Story 4" took place, on which Patricia also worked. The series "Severance", where the actress will play the main role, and "Everybody Here Wants You" with Gemma Arterton are scheduled for 2021.
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