Patricia Arquette

Patricia Arquette is an American actress. She made her feature film debut as Kristen Parker in A Nightmare on Elm Street 3. Her other notable films include True Romance, Flirting with Disaster, Holes, Fast Food Nation, The Wannabe, and Toy Story 4.

For her performance in the coming-of-age drama film Boyhood, which was filmed from 2002 until 2014, Arquette received widespread critical praise and won the Academy Award, BAFTA Award, Critics' Choice Award, Golden Globe Award, Independent Spirit Award, Satellite Award, and Screen Actors Guild Award, along with many other critics prizes, for Best Supporting Actress.

On television, she played the character Allison DuBois, who claims to have psychic abilities, in the supernatural drama series "Medium." She won the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Drama Series in 2005, from two nominations she received for the role, in addition to three Golden Globe Award and Screen Actors Guild Award nominations. She went on to star as Joyce Mitchell in the Showtime miniseries "Escape at Dannemora," winning the Golden Globe Award for Best Actress – Miniseries or Television Film, and as Dee Dee Blanchard in the Hulu anthology series "The Act". She received Primetime Emmy Award nominations for both performances. She won the award for Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Limited Series or Movie for her role on "The Act."

However, Arquette is also a deeply committed humanitarian. GiveLove, her nonprofit, is engaged with community-led sanitation projects to treat and compost waste, improve public health and create jobs centered around recycling. Arquette travels to Haiti regularly to oversee GiveLove's work there. Her hands-on approach to ecological sanitation has inspired some of the most well-known experts in the field.

Arquette is also very invested in bringing awareness to women's rights in the workplace. She used her 2014 Oscar acceptance speech for her work in Boyhood to call for equal pay for equal work. She is an advocate for LGBTQ+ rights as well. She used her 2019 Emmy acceptance speech for call attention to transgender rights and representation.