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.
Acting
Movie
Toy Story 4
as Harmony’s Mom (voice)
2019
Movie
Boyhood
as Mom
2014
TV
The Act
as Dee Dee Blanchard
2019
TV
Law & Order: Special Victims Unit
as Jeannie Kerns
1999
Movie
True Romance
as Alabama Whitman
1993
Movie
Lost Highway
as Renee Madison / Alice Wakefield
1997
TV
Severance
as Harmony Cobel
2022
Movie
Ed Wood
as Kathy O'Hara
1994
Movie
A Nightmare on Elm Street 3: Dream Warriors
as Kristen Parker
1987
Movie
Little Nicky
as Valerie Veran
2000
Movie
Holes
as Katherine "Kissin' Kate" Barlow
2003
TV
CSI: Crime Scene Investigation
as Avery Ryan
2000
Movie
Uncle Buck
as Additional Voices (voice)
1989
TV
Boardwalk Empire
as Sally Wheet
2010
Movie
Stigmata
as Frankie Paige
1999
Movie
Bringing Out the Dead
as Mary Burke
1999
TV
Tales from the Crypt
as Mary Jo
1989
Movie
They Will Kill You
as Lily Woodhouse
2026
TV
Medium
as Allison Dubois
2005
Movie
Otherhood
as Gillian Lieberman
2019
Movie
Nightwatch
as Katherine
1997
Movie
Fast Food Nation
as Cindy
2006
TV
The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon
as Self
2014
Movie
Human Nature
as Lila Jute
2001
