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.

Filmography

• 2026Evil Genius
• 2026Miss Representation: Rise Up — Executive Producer
• 2026They Will Kill You — Lily Woodhouse
• 2026We Are Windows — Mom
• Murdaugh: Death in the Family — Maggie Murdaugh
• 2023Gonzo Girl — Claudia, Producer, Director
• High Desert — Peggy Newman, Executive Producer
• 2023Who I Am Not — Executive Producer
• Severance — Harmony Cobel, Producer, Executive Producer
• 2020Kiss the Ground — Self - Actor / Founder, GiveLove.org
• 2019Otherhood — Gillian Lieberman, Executive Producer
• The Act — Dee Dee Blanchard
• 2019Toy Story 4 — Harmony’s Mom (voice)
• Escape at Dannemora — Joyce 'Tilly' Mitchell
• 2017Busty Blondes With Natural Racks — (archive footage)
• 2017Permanent — Jeanne Dixon
• 2016Equal Means Equal — Executive Producer
• CSI: Cyber — Avery Ryan
• 2015The Wannabe — Rose
• 20149 Kisses — Woman in Park
• 2014Boyhood — Mom
• 2014Electric Slide — Tina
• 2013A Glimpse Inside the Mind of Charles Swan III — Izzy
• 2013The Wait — Psychic
• 2013Vijay and I — Julia
• 2012Girl in Progress — Ms. Armstrong
• Boardwalk Empire — Sally Wheet
• Never Sleep Again: The Elm Street Legacy
• 2008A Single Woman — Storyteller
• 2006Fast Food Nation — Cindy
• Medium — Allison Dubois, Director
• 2005Special Thanks To Roy London
• 2003Abby Singer — Patricia Arquette (uncredited)
• 2003Holes — Katherine "Kissin' Kate" Barlow
• 2002The Badge — Scarlett
• 2002Tiptoes — Lucy
• 2001Human Nature — Lila Jute
• CSI: Crime Scene Investigation — Avery Ryan
• 2000Little Nicky — Valerie Veran
• 1999Bringing Out the Dead — Mary Burke
• 1999Goodbye Lover — Sandra Dunmore
• Law & Order: Special Victims Unit — Jeannie Kerns
• 1999Stigmata — Frankie Paige
• 1998The Hi-Lo Country — Mona
• 1997Lost Highway — Renee Madison / Alice Wakefield
• 1997Nightwatch — Katherine
• 1996Flirting with Disaster — Nancy Coplin
• 1996Infinity — Arline Greenbaum
• 1996The Secret Agent — Winnie
• 1995Beyond Rangoon — Laura Bowman
• 1994Betrayed by Love — Deanna
• 1994Ed Wood — Kathy O'Hara
• 1994Holy Matrimony — Havana
• 1993Ethan Frome — Mattie Silver
• 1993Trouble Bound — Kit Califano
• 1993True Romance — Alabama Whitman
• 1992Inside Monkey Zetterland — Grace
• 1991Dillinger — Polly Hamilton
• 1991Prayer of the Rollerboys — Casey
• 1991The Indian Runner — Dorothy
• 1991Wildflower — Alice Guthrie
• 1990Made in Hollywood — Tammy
• The Outsiders — Rhonda Sue
• Tales from the Crypt — Mary Jo
• 1989The Edge — The Girl / Raped Woman (Indian Poker)
• 1989Uncle Buck — Additional Voices (voice)
• 1988Far North — Jilly
• LIVE with Kelly and Mark
• 1988Time Out — Lucy
• 1987A Nightmare on Elm Street 3: Dream Warriors — Kristen Parker
• 1987Daddy — Stacy
• 1987Pretty Smart — Zero
• thirtysomething
• Screen Two — Mattie Silver
• American Playhouse — Mattie Silver
• The Last Disturbance of Madeline Hynde

Appearances as themselves (41)

• Hot Ones Versus — Self
• 2021Quentin Tarantino: From a Movie Buff to a Hollywood Legend — Self (archive footage)
• 2020You Cannot Kill David Arquette — Self
• The Kelly Clarkson Show — Self
• 2018Survivor's Guide to Prison — Self
• The Issue Is — Self
• Carpool Karaoke: The Series — Self
• 2017The Rolling Stones: From the Vault - Sticky Fingers Live at the Fonda Theatre 2015 — Self - Audience Member
• 2016Richard Linklater: Dream Is Destiny — Self
• Close Up with The Hollywood Reporter — Self
• The Late Late Show with James Corden — Self
• The Late Show with Stephen Colbert — Self
• 2015Twelve Years — Self
• The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon — Self
• Variety Studio: Actors on Actors — Self
• Finding Your Roots — Self
• The Talk — Self
• Watch What Happens Live with Andy Cohen — Self - Guest
• 2007Alexis Arquette: She's My Brother — Self
• 2007Certifiably Jonathan — Self
• 2007The Manufacturing of 'Fast Food Nation' — Self
• The Megan Mullally Show — Self - Guest
• The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson — Self
• 2004Ed Wood: Pie Plates Over Hollywood — Self (archive footage)
• Celebrities Uncensored — Self
• Jimmy Kimmel Live! — Self - Guest
• The Ellen DeGeneres Show — Self
• 2002Searching for Debra Winger — Self
• 2001Adam Sandler Goes to Hell — Self
• Good Day Live — Self
• Richard & Judy — Self
• 1998VH1: Divas Live — Self - Host
• 1997Pretty as a Picture: The Art of David Lynch — Self
• The View — Self
• Intimate Portrait — Self
• Late Night with Conan O'Brien — Self - Guest
• The Tonight Show with Jay Leno — Self
• 20/20 — Self
• People's Choice Awards — Self - Presenter
• Today — Self
• The Emmy Awards — Self