Patricia Arquette

Acting

Born 1968-04-08 Chicago, Illinois, USA 113 credits Academy Awards 1 Primetime Emmy Awards 2 Golden Globe Awards 1 BAFTA Awards 1 Screen Actors Guild Awards 2 GLAAD Vanguard Award 1 Film Independent Spirit Awards 1 Los Angeles Film Critics Association Award for Best Actress 1

Awards

Won 1 Academy Award

Academy Awards 1 won

2015 Best Supporting Actress Won Boyhood

Primetime Emmy Awards 2 won

2019 Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Miniseries or a Movie Won The Act
2005 Outstanding Lead Actress in a Drama Series Won Medium

Golden Globe Awards 1 won

2015 Best Supporting Actress – Motion Picture Won Boyhood

BAFTA Awards 1 won

2015 Best Actress in a Supporting Role Won Boyhood

Screen Actors Guild Awards 2 won

— Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Supporting Role Won
— Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Miniseries or Television Movie Won

GLAAD Vanguard Award 1 won

2017 GLAAD Vanguard Award Won

Film Independent Spirit Awards 1 won

2015 Film Independent Spirit Awards Won

Los Angeles Film Critics Association Award for Best Actress 1 won

2014 Best Actress Won Boyhood

Golden Raspberry Award for Worst Supporting Actress 1 nominated

2000 Worst Supporting Actress Nominated Little Nicky

Award data from Wikidata (CC0). Coverage may be incomplete.

Read biography

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.