ACTOR
Patricia Arquette
- Known for
- Boyhood (2014), Little Nicky (2000), They Will Kill You (2026), The Act (2019)
30 archived facts 4 topics 1 source Last reviewed Oct 2026
Patricia Arquette is an actor best known for Boyhood, Little Nicky and They Will Kill You.
All facts (30)
- #001
When Patricia Arquette first met Nicolas Cage, she felt he was acting very tough and tried to discourage him. Before dating him, she gave him an impossible list of achievements he had to accomplish. She was shocked when she learned over the following months that he was working through the list.
- #002
Arquette is the first member of her family to receive an Oscar nomination and also the first to win the award.
- #003
She is one of two actresses to have won both the Best Supporting Actress Oscar (for Boyhood (2014)) and the Emmy for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Drama Series (for Medium (2005)). The other is Viola Davis.
- #004
If her acting career had not worked out, her other career ambition was to go to university and become a midwife.
- #005
She attended the Mid-City Alternative school at the corner of Adams Boulevard and, in the mid-1970s, Arlington Boulevard. Her two brothers, David Arquette and Richmond Arquette, also attended this school.
- #006
In her Oscar acceptance speech for Boyhood (2014), she made remarks about gender inequality, and those words instantly went viral, carried by the millions of people watching the television broadcast at home. Women's groups say the only other times they saw the issue of income inequality discussed so much were when activist Lilly Ledbetter, who sued Goodyear for paying her less than her male colleagues, spoke at the Democratic National Convention in 2008 and 2012. In 2015, Barack Obama took up the principle of equal pay in his State of the Union address.
- #007
She is a co-founder of "GiveLove," an organization dedicated to community-led sanitation projects in Haiti since the devastating 2010 earthquake.
- #008
She is one of 13 actresses to have won the Oscar, BAFTA Award, Critics' Choice Award, Golden Globe Award and SAG Award for the same performance. In chronological order, the others are Julia Roberts for Erin Brockovich (2000), Renée Zellweger for Cold Mountain (2003), Reese Witherspoon for Walk the Line (2005), Helen Mirren for The Queen (2006), Jennifer Hudson for Dreamgirls (2006), Kate Winslet for The Reader (2008), Mo'Nique for Precious (2009), Natalie Portman for Black Swan (2010), Octavia Spencer for The Help (2011), Anne Hathaway for Les Misérables (2012), Cate Blanchett for Blue Jasmine (2013) and Julianne Moore for Still Alice (2014).
- #009
The family surname was spelled "Arcouet" many generations ago. Her father had French-Canadian, English, Swiss-German, German, Scottish, Irish and Welsh ancestry. Patricia's maternal grandfather, Yusseff "Joseph" Nowack, was a Jewish immigrant from the Ukrainian town of Bila Tserkva, Kiev Governorate, then part of the Russian Empire, while Patricia's maternal grandmother, Claire Hibel, was born in New York to a Russian Jewish family.
- #010
She was initially cast as the Jennifer Jason Leigh role in Last Exit to Brooklyn (1989) opposite her brother Alexis Arquette, but had to leave because of her pregnancy.
- #011
She was set to reprise the role of Kristen Parker in A Nightmare on Elm Street 4: The Dream Master (1988), but had to turn it down because she was pregnant with her son Enzo Rossi.
- #012
In January 2009, she filed for divorce from Thomas Jane, citing "irreconcilable differences," but they reconciled a few weeks later. In August 2010, they separated for good.
- #013
On January 3, 1989, she gave birth to her first child, Enzo Luciano Rossi (also known as Enzo Rossi), at the age of 20. The child's father is her former boyfriend Paul Rossi. On February 23, 2003, she gave birth to her second child, Harlow Olivia Calliope Jane (Elliott), also known as Harlow Jane, at the age of 34. The child's father is her boyfriend [now her former second husband] Thomas Jane.
- #014
She is the daughter of Lewis Arquette and Brenda Denaut. She is the sister of Richmond Arquette, Alexis Arquette, David Arquette and Rosanna Arquette. She is the granddaughter of the late Cliff Arquette, the TV character "Charley Weaver," and Julie Harrison. She is the aunt of Zoë Bleu (Rosanna's daughter) and of Coco Arquette, Charlie West and Augustus Alexis Arquette (David's children).
- #015
She was considered for the role of Honey Bunny in Pulp Fiction. The role ultimately went to Amanda Plummer.
- #016
The NBC-TV series Medium (2005) briefly aired in the same time slot as her sister Rosanna Arquette's ABC-TV series What About Brian (2006).
- #017
She is the former stepmother of Nicolas Cage's son Weston Cage.
- #018
She is the former sister-in-law of Tony Greco, James Newton Howard and John Sidel. Each of them was married to her sister Rosanna Arquette. She is the former sister-in-law of Courteney Cox.
- #019
She married Thomas Jane at the Palazzo Contarini in Venice.
- #020
The actress Valeria Golino was a witness at her marriage to Thomas Jane.
- #021
Patricia Arquette became the 143rd actor to win an Oscar when she won Best Supporting Actress for Boyhood (2014) at the 87th Annual Academy Awards on February 22, 2015.
- #022
In August 2002, Patricia Arquette became engaged to actor Thomas Jane.
- #023
Patricia Arquette attended the Los Angeles Center for Enriched Studies in Los Angeles, California.
- #024
Patricia Arquette was considered for the role of Dorothy Boyd in Jerry Maguire (1996).
- #025
On March 12, 2015, at the Texas Film Awards ceremony held in Austin, Texas, Patricia Arquette received Variety's Creative Impact in Cinema Award for her supporting actress role in Boyhood.
- #026
In 2002, Patricia Arquette was a dramatic jury member at the Sundance Film Festival.
- #027
Patricia Arquette is the former sister-in-law of Todd Morgan, Rosanna's fourth husband, and the sister-in-law of Christina McLarty Arquette, David's second wife.
- #028
Patricia Arquette had a mole on the left side of her neck that was removed in 1998.
- #029
Patricia Arquette is the only Oscar winner to have appeared in the Nightmare On Elm Street series so far.
- #030
Patricia Arquette was born at 11:55 PM (EST).
Continue through the archive
Sources & editorial notes
Reference databases
Sources for the entries on this page
- IMDb IMDb kaydı
Information from external sources is independently selected, consolidated and edited by Arka Evren. Sources are listed for verification and further reading. Encyclopedia text is used under its licence (CC BY-SA). How we work