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Rosanna Lauren Arquette (born August 10, 1959) is
an United States|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 Arquette|Lewis, was well known
as "J. D. 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|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's Baby It's You, a highly regarded but
little seen film. She carried Desperately Seeking
Susan but was eclipsed by her co-star Madonna
(entertainer)|Madonna. After Hours (movie)|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 (movie)|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 (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, England|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 2002 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 (2002) (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 (movie)|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 (movie)|Search and Destroy
(1995)
*Pulp Fiction (1994) 
*Nowhere to Run (1993)
*Fathers & Sons (1992)
*Radio Flyer (film)|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 (movie)|After Hours (1985)
*Silverado (1985)
*Desperately Seeking Susan (1985)
*The Aviator (1985 movie)|The Aviator (1985) 
*Off the Wall (1983)
*Baby It's You (1983) 
*S.O.B. (1981) 
*Gorp (movie)|Gorp (1980)
*More American Graffiti (1979)

==External links==
*imdb name|id=0000275|name=Rosanna Arquette