Rosanna
Lauren Arquette (born August 10, 1959) is an American
actress. She was born in New York City. Her grandfather,
Cliff Arquette, played "Charley Weaver" on
The Jack Paar Show and the original incarnation of Hollywood
Squares, and her father, Lewis, was well known as "J.
W. Pickett" on The Waltons. She is the sister of
actors Patricia Arquette, David Arquette, Alexis Arquette
and Richmond Arquette, and the sister-in-law of Courteney
Cox Arquette.
Arquette followed her family's profession
and began acting while being a child. When she was
11 years old, her parents moved to a commune in Virginia.
Arquette did not do well at school. At the age of
14 she went to Los Angeles, California, wanting to
become a film star. In Hollywood, she had her first
roles playing teens with troubles. A few years later
she started to act in mature roles. Besides cinema
movies, Arquette appeared from the beginning of her
career in television films. In 1982, she earned an
Emmy Award nomination for the TV film The Executioner's
Song. Thereafter, she played in many cinema movies
and TV films and has worked with many of the most
acclaimed film directors of the last twenty years.
Arquette's first starring role was in John
Sayles' "Baby It's You", a highly regarded
but little seen film. She carried "Desperately
Seeking Susan" but was eclipsed by her co-star
Madonna. "After Hours" also played to her
comedic talents but failed to find an audience while
"8 Million Ways to Die' was buried by the studio
and for a time she quit Hollywood to work in Europe.
In 1989, Martin Scorsese offered her a part in New
York Stories. Since then, Arquette has appeared, with
few exceptions, in one or in several movies each year,
some of them of notable interest, like Pulp Fiction
and Crash.
In her private life, she has always
been torn between work and family. Her dedication
to acting has broken several relationships. The first
was her boyfriend Steven Porcaro, member of the rock
band Toto (whose international hit "Rosanna"
is named after her). Her marriage in 1986 to composer
James Newton Howard ended in the same way. The liaison
with an old love of Arquette, English pop and rock
star Peter Gabriel, proved also to be impossible.
At that time, Arquette's parents divorced. Soon later
her mother developed breast cancer. Deeply hurt, Arquette
married restaurateur John Sidel in 1993. One year
later their daughter Zoe Blue was born. Arquette went
on working intensively, being often away from home.
The tensions this created, and the death of her mother,
led the couple to divorce.
More recently, Arquette found energies
to spend time with her daughter and to become breast
cancer advocate, while continuing with her work, now
also as a director. in 2004 she released the critically
acclaimed documentary film "Searching For Debra
Winger". In the film Arquette interviews prominent
and respected actresses (mostly between the ages of
30 and 60) in an attempt to find out whether it was
practical for a working actress to successfully maintain
a family.
Filmography
Searching For Debra Winger (2003) (as director)
Diary of a Sex Addict (2001)
Good Advice (2001)
Big Bad Love (2001)
Joe Dirt (2001)
Things Behind the Sun (2001)
Too Much Flesh (2000)
The Whole Nine Yards (2000)
Interview with a Dead Man (1999)
Pigeonholed (1999)
Palmer's Pick Up (1999)
Sugar Town (1999)
Homeslice (1998)
Fait Accompli (1998)
I'm Losing You (1998)
Hell's Kitchen (1998)
Floating Away (1998)
Hope Floats (1998)
Buffalo '66 (1998)
Gun (1997)
Do Me a Favor (1997)
Deceiver (1997)
Gone Fishin (1997)
Vive le cinéma! (1996)
White Lies (1996)
Crash (1996)
Search and Destroy (1995)
Pulp Fiction (1994)
Nowhere to Run (1993)
Fathers & Sons (1992)
Radio Flyer (1992)
The Linguini Incident (1991)
Flight of the Intruder (1991)
Almost (1990)
Sweet Revenge (1990)
Black Rainbow (1989)
New York Stories (1989)
The Big Blue (1988)
Amazon Women on the Moon (1987)
Nobody's Fool (1986)
8 Million Ways to Die (1986)
After Hours (1985)
Silverado (1985)
Desperately Seeking Susan (1985)
The Aviator (1985)
Off the Wall (1983)
Baby It's You (1983)
S.O.B. (1981)
Gorp (1980)
More American Graffiti (1979)
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