#Arq parents guide series#

They later settled in Los Angeles, California. When Arquette was seven, the family relocated to Chicago. Her father was an alcoholic her mother was violently abusive. She has said they became poorer the longer they lived there and she believes that experience enlarged her empathy. įor a time her family lived on a commune in rural Bentonville, Virginia. When she was a child, her parents offered to get her braces for her teeth, but she refused, telling them she wanted to have flaws because it would help her with character acting. Patricia's siblings also became actors: Rosanna, Richmond, Alexis, and David. Her paternal grandfather was comedian Cliff Arquette. Her father's family's surname was originally 'Arcouet', and his paternal line was of French-Canadian descent. Arquette's mother was Jewish, and her ancestors emigrated from Poland and Russia. Arquette's father had converted from Catholicism to Islam. Through her father, Patricia is distantly related to explorer Meriwether Lewis. Īrquette was born in Chicago, Illinois, in 1968 to Lewis Arquette, an actor, and Brenda Olivia 'Mardi' (née Nowak), who was involved in the arts and worked as a therapist. Arquette on her refusal to get braces as a child for her crooked teeth. I didn't think that was my responsibility.' I didn't want to have to change myself to be attractive.

#Arq parents guide series#

She has since starred in the Apple TV+ thriller series Severance (2022) and comedy series High Desert (2023). They both won her Golden Globe Awards in addition to a Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actress for the latter. Further success came for starring as a prison worker in the miniseries Escape at Dannemora (2018) and as Dee Dee Blanchard in the drama The Act (2019). From 2005 to 2011, she starred as a character based on the medium Allison DuBois in the supernatural drama series Medium, winning the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Drama Series in 2005.įor playing a single mother in the coming-of-age film Boyhood (2014), which was filmed from 2002 until 2014, Arquette won the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress. She had starring roles in several critically acclaimed films, including True Romance (1993), Ed Wood (1994), Flirting with Disaster (1996), Lost Highway (1997), The Hi-Lo Country (1998), and Bringing Out the Dead (1999). She made her feature film debut as Kristen Parker in A Nightmare on Elm Street 3: Dream Warriors (1987). Patricia Tiffany Arquette (born April 8, 1968) is an American actress.