Patricia Arquette biography, net worth, young, teeth, age, awards 2025

Patricia Arquette's biography

Patricia Arquette is a celebrated actress and philanthropist who's earned widespread recognition in Hollywood. Throughout her career, she's been nominated for and won numerous prestigious awards including the Primetime Emmy, Golden Globe, BAFTA Film Award, and more. Net worth: $24 million.

Childhood and family

Patricia Arquette was born on April 8, 1968, in Chicago. Her father, Lewis Arquette, was an actor, writer, producer, and manager of the Chicago-based improvisational comedy troupe The Second City. In the late '60s, Lewis grew tired of city life and moved the family to a rural Subud commune, converting to Islam.

Patricia's mother, Brenda Arquette, was a therapist. As a devoted wife, she took Patricia and her three sons and moved to Bentonville, where the commune was located. That's where the Arquette children spent most of their childhood. Brenda's oldest daughter, Rosanna, was already pursuing her Hollywood career and living on her own.

Patricia's grandfather was a beloved comedian and actor, so it's no surprise that all the Arquette children eventually found their way into the entertainment industry.

According to Patricia, her father struggled with alcoholism and drug addiction, while her mother could be overbearing and controlling. She hated the home environment and ran away to Los Angeles to live with Rosanna when she was just 13.

The beginning of acting career

Right after high school graduation, Patricia snagged her first role in the comedy-drama Pretty Smart (1986), playing Tricia Leigh Fisher's character's 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

The soft, petite blue-eyed blonde had a peculiar, slightly neurotic, and highly expressive acting style that immediately caught the producers' attention. She was also fiercely independent about her appearance – to this day, she refuses to straighten her crooked teeth. Patricia was once told that fixing her teeth would land her a Playboy photoshoot, to which she replied: "And why would I want that?"

Among her earliest films was the drama Wildflower alongside Reese Witherspoon, where she played a young deaf girl living a sheltered life, and the independent film Inside Monkey Zetterland, which gave her the chance to work with Steve Antin, Rupert Everett, and Sofia Coppola.

Patricia went on to star in the 1993 neo-noir crime film Trouble Bound, playing the unhinged daughter of a mob member who falls in love with ex-con Michael Madsen.

But it was her role as gorgeous call girl Alabama in the neo-noir romantic crime film True Romance that brought Patricia her biggest '90s breakthrough. She teamed up with Christian Slater to play a newlywed couple with a suitcase full of cocaine, running from Gary Oldman and Samuel L. Jackson's characters.

Arquette's best works

In 1996, Arquette starred in the black comedy Flirting with Disaster alongside Josh Brolin and Ben Stiller, then teamed up with Ewan McGregor and Nick Nolte the following year for the horror-thriller Nightwatch.

Patricia Arquette in Flirting with Disaster

She then landed leading roles in the neo-noir drama Lost Highway and the neo-noir comedy Goodbye Lover, starring opposite Bill Pullman and Dermot Mulroney respectively. Both films showcased Arquette's impressive range and solidified her standing in Hollywood.

In 1999, she played the carefree and flirtatious Frankie opposite Gabriel Byrne in the supernatural horror Stigmata. The film follows Frankie as she's suddenly afflicted with the stigmata. That same year, Patricia starred in the drama Bringing Out the Dead, which earned rave reviews from both audiences and critics. She met Nicolas Cage on the set of the film.

Patricia Arquette and Nicolas Cage in Bringing Out the Dead

From 2000 to 2010, Patricia appeared in various films including Little Nicky with Adam Sandler, Reese Witherspoon and Harvey Keitel, the adventure comedy-drama Holes alongside Sigourney Weaver, and A Single Woman as narrator.

Trailer for Little Nicky

In 2005, Patricia Arquette landed the lead role in the supernatural drama series Medium. She played Allison, a medium who helps police solve their toughest cases using her extraordinary gift. Jake Weber, David Cubitt, Ryan Hurst, and Kathy Baker also starred in Medium. The show ran until 2011, earning critical acclaim and audience praise while bringing Arquette her first Emmy for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Drama Series, plus numerous other prestigious nominations.

Oscar for Boyhood

In 2013, Patricia joined the cast of HBO's period crime drama Boardwalk Empire, working alongside Steve Buscemi, Kelly Macdonald, and Stephen Graham.

The following year marked Arquette's career breakthrough when she swept awards season, winning a Golden Globe and BAFTA for her role as a single mother in the epic coming-of-age drama Boyhood. The cast also included Ethan Hawke, Ellar Coltrane, and Libby Villari.

Boyhood's production spanned 12 years, with director Richard Linklater capturing the real-time aging of the main character and his family members. Patricia received an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress.

During her Oscar acceptance speech, Patricia delivered a powerful message about representation and equality in Hollywood. "To every woman who gave birth to every taxpayer and citizen of this nation, we have fought for everybody else's equal rights. It's our time to have wage equality once and for all and equal rights for women in the United States of America" – stated the actress. The audience erupted in applause, with Meryl Streep leading the charge with enthusiastic cheers.

Patricia Arquette at the beginning and at the end of filming Boyhood

The next day, Patricia's speech dominated headlines in major magazines and newspapers, though most outlets sidestepped her women's rights message to focus on how she supposedly struggled with watching herself age onscreen.

Patricia has been vocal about denouncing ageism in Hollywood: "Aging is just normal. It's pathetic, and it looks pathetic when I hear some 55-year-old actor won't play opposite a 42-year-old woman because she is too old for him. People aren't buying this anymore." The actress is reportedly against plastic surgery.

Patricia Arquette's personal life

Patricia Arquette married Nicolas Cage in 1995. He'd been pursuing Patricia since the late '80s for eight years, but she wasn't interested and even had a son with someone else during that time.

The marriage between these two unique actors lasted just six years. In 2001, right after the release of Bringing Out the Dead, the movie they both starred in, the couple filed for divorce.

Two years later, Patricia had a daughter with actor Thomas Jane, whom she married in 2006.

Arquette's second marriage also fell apart – she filed for divorce in 2011 after years of an on-and-off relationship filled with public drama and fights.

Patricia is actively involved in charity work and projects focusing on raising awareness about homelessness, ecological issues, animal cruelty, and various others.

Her older sister Rosanna and her three brothers are all connected to the film industry.

In 2016, she lost her brother Alexis, who underwent a sex reassignment surgery a decade earlier, due to a cardiac arrest caused by HIV complications.

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 look 35. It's 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 incredible performance earned her 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.

The Act: Trailer

Patricia also worked on two 2019 releases: the film "Otherhood" and the animated "Toy Story 4." The series "Severance", where the actress will play the main role, and "Everybody Here Wants You" with Gemma Arterton are scheduled for 2021.

Patricia Arquette: latest news and articles

Choose the most fragile "thumbelina" of Hollywood

27 Aug 2022

Kathryn White

I like the protest of this actress and the refusal of plastic surgery! Strong woman.

2021-05-03 13:01:35
Luis Bailey

An ingenious film with Arquette is of course «Boyhood»! How much effort and time was invested to create this motion picture...

2021-05-01 10:42:37
Larry Cole

Lost Highway with Arquette is an awesome movie, I highly recommend watching it.

2021-04-18 17:56:30
Joan Garcia

In «Boardwalk Empire» Arquette is so aristocratic beauty.

2021-03-24 15:34:39
Rene Byrd

Oh my God! How beautiful Patricia Arquette was when she was young!

2021-03-07 13:00:24

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