Guide Note

Patricia Arquette is an Emmy Award-winning and Golden Globe-nominated American actress. She began her career in 1986, in Pretty Smart. A year later she starred in A Nightmare on Elm Street 3: Dream Warriors. Arquette can currently be seen in the NBC drama Medium, which is currently in its fourth season.

Her other acting credits include True Romance, Stigmata, Holes and Flying with Disaster.

Arquette can next be seen in Boyhood, slated to be released in 2013. The film will co-star Ethan Hawke.

Fast Facts

1. Full Name: Patricia T. Arquette
2. Born: April 8, 1968
3. Birthplace: Chicago, Illinois
4. Mother died of breast cancer
5. Brother is David Arquette
6. Sister is Rosanna Arquette
7. Married Nicholas Cage in 1995
8. Divorced nine months later
9. Married Thomas Jane in 2006

1. "I love all the actors in my family. I really respect them as artists and I enjoy them as people, and we always have such a good time. When they’re there, I just feel, well, I feel like I’m always myself." — Patricia Arquette on her siblings
2. "I wanted to play a woman who looks normal. It's important for me to be real." — Patricia Arquette on her role in Medium
3. "I’m comfortable in this business. Maybe because my dad was an actor, as well as my grandparents and great-grandparents. And I also know that it’s a fickle business so I don’t trust it. There’s a lot I actually hate about it. But I do love acting and I do love the weird family that you create on set." — Patricia Arquette on family life in Hollywood
4. "I didn’t have any advice for David because he has always been such a big part of my son’s life. I had my son when I was 19, so David was about 17 when he was born, and was always babysitting and he loved that baby so much. So I knew that he didn’t really need any advice." — Patricia Arquette on her niece Coco
5. "I have to say, for the first time in my life I really do feel like I have a beautiful partnership. He’s so easy to be with and so fair and good." — Patricia Arquette on her husband Thomas Jane