Alexis Arket is a famous American transgender actress. She was a popular cabaret artist and cartoonist. Life of Alexis was difficult and tragic, nevertheless, she left a bright acting mark in the US cinema.
Biography
Alexis Arquette was born on July 28, 1969 in Los Angeles, California, into a famous family. At birth, Alexis was a boy named Robert. Her father Lewis was an actor. Alexis's mother was a very versatile person, she was both an actress, a poet, and a theater worker, and also worked as a psychotherapist.
Alexis got her first acting experience in 1982 at the age of 12, starring in the music video of the American rock band The Tubes. The actress made her big screen debut in 1986 in Penniless in Beverly Hills, which was a big boost to her career as a film actress. Arquette also had minor roles in Pulp Fiction, Threesome and Bride of Chucky.
Among the most famous films and redials in which Alexis starred: "Three", "Kings of Dogtown", "It's All She", "Friends", "Californication", "Xena - Warrior Princess". In total, the actress starred in more than 70 films.
Gender reassignment
Even as a child, Arquette felt that she was not born in her body, she did not feel like a boy and considered herself to be female. Even in line at kindergarten, when children were separated by gender, Alexis was among the girls. The family reacted with understanding to this fact.
Playing in the movies of women, Alexis became even more convinced that she belongs to the opposite sex, not the one with whom she was born. Until the age of 30, Alexis did not dare to undergo gender reassignment surgery, and in 2004 she dared to make a formal transition to the female sex using hormone therapy. But in the end, in 2007, Arquette decided to undergo surgery. The changes that took place with the actress in the transition from man to woman are reflected in the documentary autobiographical film "Alexis Arquette: She is my brother."
After the gender change, Alexis Arquette began to actively defend the rights of transgender people in her country, as well as in other countries where transgender people were not only not accepted by society, but their rights were severely oppressed. She said that every person deserves to be accepted as he is.
last years of life
Back in 1987, Alexis contracted HIV. Until middle age, the actress did not experience much of the effect of this virus on her body - supportive therapy bore fruit. But after the sex reassignment surgery, HIV-positive status began to have a detrimental effect on the woman's weakened body. After the operation, a number of complications arose, including hormonal disruptions, in connection with which Arquette periodically began to introduce himself as a man. The last years of Arquette's life were spent fighting for his health. The operation, as well as HIV, gave complications to the actress's heart, and in 2016 the woman had a heart attack, as a result of which she died.
