Rosanna Lisa Arquette (born August 10, 1959) is an American actress. She was nominated for an Emmy Award for her performance in the TV film The Executioner's Song (1982) and won the BAFTA Award for Best Actress in a Supporting Role for the film Desperately Seeking Susan (1985). Her other film roles include After Hours (also 1985), The Big Blue (1988), Pulp Fiction (1994), and Crash (1996). She also directed the documentary Searching for Debra Winger (2002) and starred in the ABC sitcom What About Brian? from 2006 to 2007.

Filmography

• 2026Corporate Retreat — Debra
• 2026Testing Testing Sandi Bachom — Executive Producer
• 2026The Moment — Tammy
• 2024Ex-Husbands — Maria Pearce
• 2024Futra Days — Dr. Felicia Walter
• 2024Here's Yanni! — Amelia
• Presumed Innocent — Kate
• 2024Succubus — Denise
• Florida Man — Rose
• 2023Grapefruit — Evelyn
• Paul T. Goldman — Genevieve
• 2022Signs of Love — Rosie
• 2021Love Is Love Is Love — Anne (segment "Late Lunch")
• Big Sky — Virginia 'GiGi' Cessna
• 2020Puppy Love — Deb
• Ratched — Anna
• 2019Holy Lands — Monica
• 2019The Cold Open
• 2018Billionaire Boys Club — Sydney's Mom
• 2018For the Love of George — Dr. Faye Carter
• 2018Octavio Is Dead! — Joan
• Sideswiped — Mary
• 2018The Etruscan Smile — Claudia
• 2017Born Guilty — Judith
• 2017Busty Blondes With Natural Racks — (archive footage)
• 2017Lovesong — Eleanor
• 2017Maya Dardel — Leonora
• 2017SPF-18 — Faye Cooper
• 2016Certain Women — Thanks
• 2016Falsely Accused — Beth
• 2016Frank & Lola — Patricia
• Roadies — Abby Van Ness
• 2015Asthma — Gus's Mother
• 2015Kill Your Friends — Barbara
• 2015Larry Gaye: Renegade Male Flight Attendant — TV Anchorwoman
• 2015My Last Film — Actress
• 2014Draft Day — Angie
• Ray Donovan — Linda
• The Frame — Gabrielle
• 2012Final Cut: Ladies and Gentlemen — (archive footage)
• Girls — Petula
• 2012Hardflip — Bethany Jones
• 2012The Divide — Marilyn
• 2011Convincing Clooney — JC
• 2011Exodus Fall
• 2011Peace, Love & Misunderstanding — Darcy
• 2010Inhale — Dr. Rubin
• 2010The Westsiders — Narrator
• 2009American Pie Presents: The Book of Love — Rob's Mom
• Eastwick — Greta Noa
• 2009Madonna: Celebration - The Video Collection — Roberta Glass (video 'Into the Groove')
• 2009Northern Lights — Charlene Galligan
• 2009Repo Chick — Lola
• 2008Ball Don't Lie — Francine
• 2008Growing Op — Diana
• 2008Indie Sex: Teens
• Lipstick Jungle — Tina Atwood
• 2007Battle for Terra — Professor Lina (voice)
• Dirt — Mia
• Private Practice — Corinne Davis
• 2006I-See-You.com — Lydia Ann Layton
• What About Brian — Nicole Varzi
• 2005All We Are Saying — Director, Producer
• 2005Crazy for Love — Vera
• 2005Dead Cool — Deirdre
• Grey's Anatomy — Constance Ferguson
• 2005Iowa — Effie Harte
• 2005Kids in America — Abby Pratt
• Medium — Michelle Todd
• 2005Welcome to California — Prostitute
• Summerland — Ronnie
• The L Word — Cherie Jaffe
• 2004Weird Sex and Snowshoes: A Trek Through the Canadian Cinematic Psyche — Gabrielle (archive footage)
• 2003Rush of Fear — Alex McGuire
• 2002Searching for Debra Winger — Self, Writer, Director, Producer
• 2001Big Bad Love — Velma
• 2001Diary of a Sex Addict — Grace Horn
• 2001Good Advice — Cathy Sherman
• 2001Joe Dirt — Charlene the Gator Farmer (uncredited)
• Law & Order: Criminal Intent — Kay Connelly
• 2001Things Behind the Sun — Pete
• 2000Gun: Fatal Betrayal
• Malcolm in the Middle — Anita
• 2000Poison — Dana
• The Huntress
• 2000The Whole Nine Yards — Sophie Oseransky
• 2000Too Much Flesh — Amy
• 2000Voodoo Dawn — Jezzebelle
• Law & Order: Special Victims Unit — Alexa Pierson
• 1999Palmer's Pick-Up — Dawn
• 1999Pigeonholed
• 1999Sugar Town — Eva
• 1999Switched at Birth — Linda Wells
• 1999The '60s — Hippie Mother (uncredited)
• 1998Buffalo '66 — Wendy Balsam
• 1998Floating Away — Maurey Talbot
• 1998Hell's Kitchen — Liz McNeary
• 1998Hope Floats — Connie Phillips (uncredited)
• 1998I Know What You Did — Stacey Keane
• 1998I'm Losing You — Rachel Krohn
• V.I.P. — Thanks
• Will & Grace — Julie
• 1997Deceiver — Mrs. Kennesaw
• 1997Gone Fishin' — Rita
• Gun — Lilly
• The Practice — Brenda Miller
• 1997Trading Favors — Alex Langley
• 1997White Lies — Junkie Artist
• 1996Crash — Gabrielle
• 1996Valley Girls — Shelly von Schetekel
• 1995Search and Destroy — Lauren Mirkheim
• 1994Fear City: A Family-Style Comedy — Rosanna Arquette
• 1994Nowhere to Hide — Sarah Blake
• 1994Pulp Fiction — Jody
• Homicide: Life on the Street — Caroline Widmer
• 1993Nowhere to Run — Clydie Anderson
• 1993The Wrong Man — Missy Mills
• 1992Fathers & Sons — Miss Athena
• 1992In the Deep Woods — Joanna Warren
• 1991Flight of the Intruder — Callie Joy
• Son of the Morning Star — Libby Custer
• 1991The Linguini Incident — Lucy
• 1990Separation — Sarah Weiss
• 1990Sweet Revenge — Kate Williams
• 1990Wendy Cracked a Walnut — Wendy
• 1989Black Rainbow — Martha Travis
• 1989New York Stories — Paulette
• 1988Promised a Miracle — Alice Elizabeth 'Lucky' Parker
• 1988The Big Blue — Johana Baker
• The Play on One — Sarah Weiss
• 1987Amazon Women on the Moon — Karen (segment "Two I.D.'s")
• 19868 Million Ways to Die — Sarah
• 1986Nobody's Fool — Cassie
• 1985After Hours — Marcy
• 1985Desperately Seeking Susan — Roberta Glass
• 1985Silverado — Hannah
• 1985The Aviator — Tillie Hansen
• 1984The Parade — Tilda Kirby
• 1983Baby It's You — Jill Rosen
• 1983Off the Wall — Pam Smith
• 1983One Cooks, the Other Doesn't — Tracy Boone
• American Playhouse — Sarah Weiss
• 1982Johnny Belinda — Belinda McAdam
• 1982The Executioner's Song — Nicole Baker
• The Executioner's Song — Nicole Baker
• 1982The Wall — Halinka Apt
• 1981A Long Way Home — Rose Cavanaugh
• Here's Boomer
• 1981S.O.B. — Babs
• 1980Gorp — Judy
• 1979More American Graffiti — Girl in Commune
• Shirley — Debra Miller
• 1979The Ordeal of Patty Hearst — Becky
• 1979Visions of Christmas Past — Debra Miller
• The Dark Secret of Harvest Home — Kate Constantine
• The Runaways
• 1978Zuma Beach — Beverly
• Eight Is Enough
• 1977Having Babies II — Connie
• What Really Happened to the Class of '65?
• Northern Lights

Appearances as themselves (31)

• 2024The Making of 'The Linguini Incident' — Self
• 2023Sex on Screen — Self
• 2022Body Parts — Self
• 2022Brainwashed: Sex-Camera-Power — Self
• Catch and Kill: The Podcast Tapes — Self
• 2021Quentin Tarantino: From a Movie Buff to a Hollywood Legend — Self (archive footage)
• 2020Coachella: 20 Years in the Desert — Self
• 2020You Cannot Kill David Arquette — Self (archive footage)
• 2019Hal — Self
• 2019Untouchable — Self
• 2018Half the Picture — Self
• Hollywood Medium with Tyler Henry — Self - Guest
• Celebrity Family Feud — Self - Contestant
• 2015Rickie Lee Jones: The Other Side of Desire — Self
• 2013$ellebrity — Self
• 2013Quentin Tarantino: 20 Years of Filmmaking — Self
• Watch What Happens Live with Andy Cohen — Self - Guest
• 2008Nick Nolte: No Exit — Self
• 2007Alexis Arquette: She's My Brother — Self
• Head Case — Self
• Indie Sex — Self
• The Megan Mullally Show — Self - Guest
• Hell's Kitchen — Self - Restaurant Patron
• Celebrities Uncensored — Self
• 2003Olive Thomas: The Most Beautiful Girl in the World — Self - Narrator
• 2002Pulp Fiction: The Facts — Self (archive footage)
• 1999Joni Mitchell: Painting with Words & Music — Self - Introduction
• Intimate Portrait — Self
• 1989The Big Blue Adventure — Self
• Sacrée soirée — Self
• Saturday Night Live — Self - Host