Patricia Arquette

Patricia T. Arquette (born April 8, 1968) is an American actress who made her feature film debut as Kristen Parker in *A Nightmare on Elm Street 3: Dream Warriors* (1987). Among her other notable film roles are those in *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). She received critical acclaim for her role as a divorced mother in the coming-of-age drama *Boyhood* (2014), which was filmed over a 12-year period from 2002 to 2014. For this performance, she won the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress.

In television, Arquette portrayed Allison DuBois, a character based on the author and medium of the same name who claims to have psychic abilities, in the supernatural drama *Medium* (2005–2011). She won the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Drama Series in 2005, out of two nominations for the role, and received three Golden Globe and Screen Actors Guild Award nominations. She also appeared as Avery Ryan, the Deputy Director of the FBI, in *CSI: Cyber* (2015–16). Arquette later starred as Joyce Mitchell in the Showtime miniseries *Escape at Dannemora* (2018), for which she won 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. She played Dee Dee Blanchard in the Hulu anthology series *The Act* (2019), earning a Golden Globe Award and a Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actress.