Biography: Patricia Arquette
Patricia Arquette (born on April 8, 1968 in Chicago, Illinois) is an American film actress. Arquette is of Jewish and distant French descent. She is the daughter of the late actor Lewis Arquette, and granddaughter of the late comic Cliff Arquette. She is sister to the actors Rosanna, Alexis, Richmond and David Arquette. She is the sister-in-law of Courteney Cox Arquette, who is married to her brother David. She was married to Academy Award-winning actor Nicolas Cage from 1995 until 2001. She and fellow actor Thomas Jane are the parents of a baby girl named Harlow Olivia Calliope, born February 20, 2003. At the age of eighteen she got her start in showbiz in 1986's Pretty Smart. A year later, she gained attention for her starring role in A Nightmare on Elm Street 3: Dream Warriors, often considered the best film of the Nightmare series. In 1989. Soon after, her career took off, and she has since appeared in such critically acclaimed movies as True Romance, Beyond Rangoon, Ethan Frome, Lost Highway, and Flirting with Disaster. She won a CableACE Award in 1991 for her portrayal of a deaf epileptic in Wildflower. In 1997, after her mother died of breast cancer, Patricia took the lead in the fight against the disease. She's run in the annual Race for the Cure and in 1999 was the Lee National Denim Day spokesperson. She won an Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actress in 2005 for her role as the psychic Allison DuBois on NBC's Medium. Patricia Arquette in Medium

