Patricia Arquette is an American film actress, one of the few who, for her creative work, more than anyone else worked with the great directors of our time, and her partners in the cinema were the most famous actors.
Biography
Patricia had no choice but to become an actress. Her parents, grandfather, brothers and sister are all related to creativity and acting.
The actress was born in 1968 on April 8 in Chicago, USA.
The mother of Patricia Arquette with the interesting name of Brenda "Mardi" Olivia Novak is from Poland, a Jew by nationality, was an actress and wrote poetry. Lewis's father Michael Arquette, starred in TV shows, played supporting roles in films and wrote scripts. The grandfather was a comic actor with the stage name Charlie Weaver, his real name is Cliff Arquette.
In total, the family had five children. Patricia has an older sister, Roseanne, a famous actress, brothers Robert, David and Richmond, who also followed in the footsteps of their parents. At the age of 17, Roseanne showed herself as an actress and it was she who supported Patricia in her decision to become independent and look for ways to go to great cinema.
Carier start
In pursuit of her goal, Patricia took part in a fairly large number of samples in all kinds of projects. In the end, the bright girl with expressive blue eyes was noticed.
In 1986, the girl gets the leading role in the film for teenagers "The Big Clever Girl". The next year, she was lucky enough to star in one of the parts of the horror film A Nightmare on Elm Street, which was extremely popular in those years. And with this role, Patricia coped brilliantly. Since that time, the talented actress began to receive offers, by the way, most of the projects belonged to the genre of horror or thrillers. For example, after the film "Daddy", in which the girl was filmed while in position, she played in the following films: "Far North", "On the Edge", "Time Out" and the series "Tales from the Crypt".
The talented actress was also quite lucky. In 1991, the authoritative Diane Keaton offered a role in her television film "Wild Flower" and at the same time Sean Penn starred as an actress in his film "The Fugitive Indian." It was his directorial debut. After that, Patricia Arquette began to rise in her career. The most significant and striking works in films: "True Love" directed by Tony Scott and written by Quentin Tarantino (for her role in the film, the actress received an MTV Movie Award in the category "Best Actress of the Year"), "Stigmata" by Tim Burton, "Ed Wood" by Tim Burton, David Lynch's Lost Highway and others.
Prizes and awards
Patricia Arquette has earned numerous awards for her film career. One of the major works was in the TV series "Medium". As much as 6 years, the actress gave this project, playing the leading role in it. The series "Medium" received 15 nominations and 7 awards, one of which rightfully went to Patricia for "Best Lead Dramatic Role". In The Medium, the actress plays a psychic medium who is able to communicate with representatives of the subtle world. At the same time, she leads an ordinary family life, trying to cope with her own fears and depression.
Filming of the series continued until 2011, and all this time, Patricia Arquette was filmed in parallel almost only in short films, with the exception of two - "Fast Food Nation" and "Lonely Woman".
Further, films with Arquette's participation are released on average 1-2 times a year.
Another impressive film is Boyhood, filmed in 2014. For her supporting role, the actress received the most important Oscar and Golden Globe awards. It is noteworthy that the film was shot for 12 years. This is the story of childhood, growing up and the life of one ordinary boy, which the director tried to show the audience in three hours. "Adolescence" is an amazing and at the same time daring project of the director. It's pretty risky to shoot just a few scenes every year without knowing what the film and the crew will have in store for the next year. Actors may refuse to act, something may happen, but everything worked out. The director was lucky both with the boy, who played the main role, and with his mother, played by Patricia Arquette. After all, the boy grew up and grew up on the screen, and Patricia Arquette was getting old. Everything is like in life, and she was not afraid to show such a reality on the screen.
In total, Patricia Arquette's filmography includes 69 films, of which 7 are short films and 3 that she voices.
Her film partners were famous actors and young, but promising, like herself: Woody Harrelson, Martin Landau, Nick Nolte, Josh Brolin, Gerard Depardieu, Christian Bale, Adam Sandler, Dermot Mulroney, Johnny Depp, Sarah Jessica Parket, Ben Stiller and many others.
Personal life: family and children
The first child was born out of wedlock as a result of a film collaboration with musician Paul Rossi. This was a son with a beautiful name, Enzo Luciano Rossi.
In 1992-1993, the actress had a romantic relationship with partner in the motion picture "True Love" Christian Slater.
There were rumors of a connection with Matthew McConaughey.
Many suitors were constantly spinning around the pretty girl. But she especially remembered one. Who else can, at her quick request, get a figurine from the Big Boy restaurant, find a black orchid flower and get an autograph of the famous American writer Jerome David Salinger? All this was accomplished by the self-confident Nicholas Cage, who truly fell in love with Patricia.
The first attempt to get married failed for "technical reasons", the couple simply could not fly to Cuba. Taking advantage of the situation, the girl fled. For six whole years.
But in 1995, Nicolas Cage got his way, and they got married. Nicolas Cage was also gaining momentum as a famous, handsome and talented actor then, so this marriage brought them additional popularity and public interest.
By the way, with her husband Patricia Arquette took part in the film by Martin Scorsese "Raising the Dead" in 1999. Unfortunately, the joint work did not strengthen the family.
The relationship was difficult, the couple were on the verge of divorce several times, and in 2001 it still happened. There were no children in this marriage.
Then the actress soon had a daughter. It was 2003, and in 2002, the actor Thomas Jane, the girl's father, proposed to the beautiful and famous actress. They got married four years later. But, having lived together for only five years, the couple broke up, having issued joint custody of their daughter.
Social activity
After the death of her mother from breast cancer, the actress became actively involved in educating society about this disease and raising funds for the search and creation of drugs.
She also helps victims of natural disasters and took part in an advertising campaign to protect animals.
Patricia Arquette is a versatile actress, her roles are always diverse, sometimes it seems that this fragile blonde cannot be so different. But what fans and directors love most is that she's always natural and ambitious.
Interesting Facts
1. The actress's father mostly played supporting roles. But he took part in more than 100 films and TV series, and from 1990 to 1994 his voice sounded in the animated film "Tom and Jerry".
2. The actress left her home at the age of 14, shaving her head.
3. One of the brothers Robert changed gender and name and began to call himself Alexis. He later died of AIDS.
4. Another brother David at the beginning of his career became famous thanks to his participation in the sequel "Scream".
5. Sister Rosanna also had a brilliant career. She starred in just over 200 films.
6. In almost all films and in the life of Patricia Arquette, it is difficult to imagine a blonde and others, but in fact she is a brunette.
7. Before filming the series "Medium" the director set a condition that one should lose weight for the role. However, Patricia Arquette categorically disagreed with this, because according to the script she is the mother of three children and is not at all obliged to have a model appearance. This was announced to the director of the series.
eight. At the end of 2017, news of the death of the actress appeared in the media. But representatives of Patricia Arquette were quick to refute this cruel joke.
