The Arquette Family

The Arquette family has always intrigued me. None of them look alike, and they all achieved success in Hollywood individually.

Who's your favorite Arquette?

Cliff AKA Charlie Weaver - founder of the dynasty.

Probably Rosanne...is that her name? I liked them all but Alexis always seemed to be begging for attention...probably why he committed suicide.

OP, you should dig deep into your savings account and go buy yourself a life.

I liked the one who was in Waiting for Guffman. I don't find any of the others interesting whatsoever.

Rosanna and Alexis look the most alike.

Patricia.....she was in a lot of great movies. she is also an advocate for justice. she walks the talk.

They all lived in this cool looking house on Gower Street one block South of Paramount Studios.

Their dad Lewis Arquette was always really supportive of Alexis, and used to dress up in costumes with him. David has also been supportive of Alexis and trans rights. There are a lot of photos of David at Hollywood premieres dressed in a suit with Alexis in drag.

Patricia Arquette I love her in Lost Highway.

Patricia Arquette is a very gifted actress.

The others just got lucky.

David was sexy back in the day. I always got a bi vibe.

Patricia Arquette's show MEDIUM was a fave of mine for years. (You just tried to block out Kelly Preston guest starring for a few episodes, near the end.)

I think the complete series is on amazon prime right now...or was.

Courtney Cox was furiuos with David because he used to hit the gay clubs with Alexis (aka Eva Destruction), who was in full drag. Sometimes they would disappear for the the entire weekend.

Considering his famous siblings and the famous people they married, it was always impressive that Alexis never gave a shit about any of their public images and did and said whatever he wanted to.

[quote]r15 it was always impressive that Alexis never gave a shit about any of their public images and did and said whatever he wanted to.

Well, that was his schtick. He really wasn't a terribly good actor, so he had to get attention somehow if he was going to remain quasi famous at all.

I always liked this photo shoot

Alexis is the main boy on the carnival ride in The Tubes video for She's a Beauty.

They kind of have a Phoenix family vibe to them; were they also raised by hippy cult members like River and his many showbiz siblings?

Seriously though, Patricia, David and Rosanna look nothing alike. They don't sound alike, act alike. They almost seem adopted.

It’s kind of amazing that so many of them achieved a type of success in show business when not one of them can really be considered “Hollywood beautiful”...

Courteney Cox is way too much of a control freak to have a close association with a free spirit like Alexis. Alexis was the one who told the press that she was pregnant, and I'm sure that was a huge issue with her and David. I wouldn't be surprised if some of those issues led to their divorce.

Patricia and David were so soft-spoken in the beginning. I didn't expect both of them would become so successful.

You wonder if Rosanna resented being famous for so long, and then her siblings come along and hit it bigger.

Debra Winger made it funny in Searching for Debra Winger when she told Rosanna that Patricia came out va-va-va-voom.

I liked Rosanna in After Hours.

In Your Eyes by Peter Gabriel was written about Rosanna.

Rosanna. Loved her in Desperately Seeking Susan, Baby, It's You and in her small role in After Hours. Beautiful in an off-kilter way. Not a ton of range but a unique presence.

Alexis? Success? He ended up dying horrible, in a AIDS charity dying house, when there wasn't even a reason to have AIDS or a viral load. Must have been a denialist.

Check out Alexis's IMDb. He did a lot of movies and TV shows.

When I worked at a video store in the 90s, The Big Blue with Rosanna was one of the most popular rentals.

[quote]r32 Check out Alexis's IMDb. He did a lot of movies and TV shows.

The only substantial thing I remember him doing was LAST EXIT TO BROOKLYN, and I think that's when he was a teenager. (They offered Patricia A. the female lead, but she turned it down.)

Alexis' film "I Think I Do" is pretty hilarious. Worth seeing.

I think a group biography of the Arquettes would be interesting to read. They were Hollywood scenesters who surely saw a lot and heard a lot.

Alexis must have gotten some good Pulp Fiction and Friends residual checks.

Their parents died relatively early. Their mom died in 1997, and their dad in 2001.

Rosanna was funny in After Hours.

As soon as Scream came out, David became well-known. I've never seen him in anything other than that.

It's hard to picture them all as kids living in the same house growing up together.

They were on Oprah, and said David had been abused as a child. That is what lead to his alcoholism.

R34 For some reason I remember Alexis best from The Bride of Chucky.

Patricia - I found her and her screwy teeth adorable, even when she porked up on [italic]Medium[/italic].

The Poor Man's Barrymores

I worked on CSI Cyber, and once a background actor ran up to Patricia just as she was about to shoot a scene and told her how much he liked her in Nightmare on Elm Street. She stopped and thanked him, and said how nice it was for him to say that. A lot of other actresses would have been complete cunts, and would have had him thrown off the set.

I always had a feeling that David Arquette and Courteney Cox would not last. He seems funny and easy-going, and she seems rigid and controlling.

That Toto song is about Rosanna as well. She must’ve been an incredible lay.

I still hear Rosanna by Toto in at gas stations and grocery stores.

In your eyes is played all the time. It must be bizarre to have songs in heavy rotation inspired by you.

I've always loved Davey Boy Arquette for his performance in "Johns". Highly recommended!

ALEXIS — THE ARQUETTE DYNASTY'S GAY STAR: Pioneering out actor recalls .... first role as underage MTV darling caught in a tornado of cocaine and pedophilia; Describes balancing Hollywood royalty and being a gay queen

RIP, Alexis. David is the one I'd like to know personally. Sexy and seems like he'd be a good friend.

David seems like a nice enough guy...that's why I never got his marriage to bitch supreme Courtney C.

Patricia is my favorite and I liked her teeth too because I used to think, gee you're so real and not putting it on like the others. Medium was one of my favorite shows too.

I’m a lesbian & I find Patricia the be pretty hot. Agree with R54 she is aging pretty good too, she seems more real than most Hollywood stars with her natural teeth & weight gain (the whole family seems like that, Rosanna does too... I saw Searching For Debra Winger). My favorite role she’s done is True Romance.

Patsy, of course. The Academy Award winner.

Alexis died due to complications of myocarditis from the HIV because he didn’t take his meds consistently. Much like waffling on his gender and “treatment” for it, he didn’t stay consistent with ARVs. Whether the above posters thinks that’s the equivalent of their suicide or AIDS denialism claims, I don’t know.

Alexis' career probably would have been bigger had he not blown off his Reservoir Dogs call back.

David is my favorite. Seems like just the right guy to settle down with.

Played basketball once with David. Cool guy.

But it's Patricia for me. As someone else posted, True Romance is an all time favorite of mine and she was pitch perfect in it.

Does anyone know what the fifth (male) sibling does?

There is an unspoken power in beng an Arquette. Patricia's Oscar speech could have been met with a backlash, withholding scripts and roles. But the Arquettes' influence is weaved into so many different aspects of the entertainment business: agents, managers, publicists, studio personnel past and present, casting directors, actors. They're not going away.

Patricia and David were very protective of Alexis, and I'm sure they prevented him from some homophobia.

No love for Rosanna on this thread?

To me David was very sexy. I get a feeling he is or was a wild man in the sack.I bet when he was boozed and coked up it was crazy time. Yes Yes.

I love that Patricia Arquette jumped into the ring on twitter recently defending Stormy Daniels when Roseanne called her a slut for doing anal scenes.

Remember, Alexis had this cut off.

Alexis also blew some notable actors like Luke Perry and Jared Leto.

"She's kind of clean freak. An obsessive-compulsive clean freak. She's got a little Joan Crawford thing going on." - Alexis on Courtney Cox on Graham Norton Show.

Alexis spent a lot of time in NYC in the mid 90s and he was everywhere. A complete needy car wreck. High mostly on weed ALL the time, and had that manic weirdness/narcissism that sucked the energy out of you. He was EXHAUSTING just to be around.

The tranny incarnations were a manifestation of his need for attention and mental condition. I always knew he would have a messy sad end.

My favorite movie of Rosanna's is "Baby, It's You," by John Sayles. She disappeared into the character. I think it didn't catch on commercially because, in the end, the young lovers from two different classes split up. Love certainly didn't conquer all.

R69, it's funny because that's exactly the character she played on Friends.

I'm sure Courtney Cox hated hearing Alexis saying things like that about her R69 She had to grin and bear it through clenched teeth during her marriage to David.

Forget to say, Rosanna's by far my favorite of the Arquette clan. So intense and nervous, and very beautiful.

It's hilarious and sad in "Searching for Debra Winger" when Rosanna is on a European talk show during Patricia's peak. They asked her what she would like to say to Patricia. Rosanna responded that if she had anything to say to Patricia, she would say it to her.

[quote]Alexis spent a lot of time in NYC in the mid 90s and he was everywhere. A complete needy car wreck. High mostly on weed ALL the time, and had that manic weirdness/narcissism that sucked the energy out of you. He was EXHAUSTING just to be around.

There were photos of Alexis naked in a NYC subway station, this was all I could find. Pretty sad.

I love Alexis 'bummed reaction on that Graham Norton show when Graham says that his brother is engaged to Courtney Cox: "...I know."

Patricia was very pretty and ethereal in Ed Wood.

did he cut off his big beautiful dick and get a vag, or did he keep it through his tranny years? I heard at the end there was controversy as to whether he had re-identified as a man or not.

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The old boy was a great character actor for many years. I always remember him as the one/legged Leapin’ Larry on Seinfeld

But, I definitely think patty is the best and it’s not really even close...

Does anyone see any resemblance any of them have to each other than Rosanna and Alexis?

Yes, r85, they all have the same sculpted, slender eyebrows. Their noses all resemble one another's as well.

Patricia and David look like their dad, while Rosanna and Alexis resemble their mom.

If I didn't know, I wouldn't even guess that Rosanna and David are from the same parents.

It is interesting that the Arquette name never seems to be mentioned in discussions about acting families. The five siblings have 480 IMDB acting credits. Their father had 138. Their mother had 4. Grandaddy had 37. That is 659 credits going back to 1940.

R89, interesting point. And it’s not as if they have some common name like “Jones”.

Cliff as Charley Weaver was a HUGE presence on TV in the '60s, but a lot of strange things happened in the '60s. He didn't have a series, but he was everywhere nonetheless.

People loved his humor, kindness, warmth and wisdom.

Rosanna is my personal favorite, but I think Patricia is the better actress.

Lewis Arquette was amusing in "Waiting for Guffman." You can see echoes of his eyebrows in all his children.

Probably Rosanna. I was a big fan of Desperately Seeking Susan and After Hours. I always wondered why her career seemed to fizzle out so quickly though.

Also it isn't an instance of family members piling on the fame gravy train. They all made it in different ways, and you wouldn't even associate them together if they didn't have the same name.

They are magical French-Canadian gypsies

Richmond. Because he doesn't get enough love from anyone else.

Rosanna is most known in Europe for The Big Blue.

R87 I've never seen a photo of their mom before (never been curious), but your insights do appear to be correct!

Their mom really resembled Rosanna and Alexis in her early acting days.

Rosanna and Patricia's mannerisms and voices could not be more different.

Here's Patricia dancing in Medium.

David is a lovable mess. He really does seem like a sweetheart. I've always had a little crush on him. I assume he has a big dick like Alexis had. He was fucking Ellen Barkin before Courtney Cox.

I really thought David was a coked-out mess when he first came onto the scene. But now he seems subdued. He dated Charlize Theron before she was famous.

Patricia added a legitimacy to a lot of movies early on. I remember going to see a few films because she was in them.

David seems nice, but got to knock them down a couple of pegs for his latest wrestling antics.

Give me the David of "Johns" any day of the week! Certainly looks like a good bed-buddy. Is he over-compensating now with the wrestling thing?

The grandpa Charlie was an old fashioned "key party" swinger! Lol Alexis tricked w Tarantino and that's why he was in Pulp Fiction.

Rosanna doesn’t have much range and she always seemed stacked crooked, but she’s far and away my favorite.

[quote]Lol Alexis tricked w Tarantino

Meaning what? They were prostitutes together?

I love Patricia the best. Quirky and sweet. Alexis always seemed troubled and unhappy. He loved Mexican rough trade. He manned a stall at LA city college leaving the door open showing that he can suck his own dick in order to entice guys to come in for bjs. My ex claimed in HS that ha had a 3 way with Patricia and Alexis. David is cool and laid back and good humor. My only encounter with Rosanna was at a big party and found her quite cunty and bitchy. She came with Christie Hynde who was complaining smashed and saddled up to me all night. Throughout the night of the party Rosanna was trying to peel Hynde off me to no avail. It ended with a pretty big scene.

Eldergay here, I’m old enough to remember when Rosanna Arquette and Terri Nunn (later of Berlin) had the market cornered playing “troubled teens” on TV. She really came into own in “The Executioner’s Song” and (especially) “Baby, It’s You” and I’ve been a fan ever since.

One of Alexis' more coherent interviews with Dr. Drew on CNN

Rosanna made a few interesting comments on WWHL. She hooked up with Paul McCartney. She hung out with Michael Jackson and Quincy Jones during the recording of Thriller. She turned down the Jodie Foster role in The Accused.

Paul McCartney? Ugh, he was already old and crispy at that point.

Paul loves big titted women, I can see why he'd fuck Rosanna.

People say a lot of things, especially famous people.

R117. Non-famous people also say a lot of things.

Rosanna and Peter Gabriel

[QUOTE]Who is your favorite Arquette?

Any of the ones who have had the decency to die.

Rosanna is very full of herself. She married a nice guy with a lot of money, Todd Morgan who likes fucking her between her big titties. Patricia is the only one who is respected as an actress.

Not at all surprised David and Courtney broke up

I'm not interested in them individually, but a collective reality show would probably be good.

Rosanna, quit pushing work pitches at us.

Patricia is my favourite. The other Arquette brother guest starred on Medium a few times.

A documentary with all of them in early footage would be interesting

David, who I find strangely hot.

[quote]Rosanna and Peter Gabriel

Peter Gabriel was also into big tits. His first wife, whose dad was the Queen's secretary, had huge tits, Not sure about his second wife.

[quote] I love Patricia the best. Quirky and sweet.

I like Patricia too, since True Romance in fact. I even watched Medium, which was a trite show, but she and the Australian actor playing her husband (hunky) were a good match.

She deserved her Oscar.

I love Patricia the most, then Rosanna. (Desperately Seeking Susan, a nostalgic favorite.)

But do these two sisters not get along? Does anybody know anything?

I too would love a doc about this family.

Alexis was a background actor in Less Than Zero. He is sitting on a couch at a partywith Andrew McCarthy and Jami Gertz when Andrew comes back from college.

I like Alexis best. The dead gay/trans one. He/she was awesome in The Wedding Singer. The rest of the family is trash hanging on to a Hollywood legacy.

R131 Brad Pitt was a Less Than Zero extra, too.

They would all have a ton of celeb gossip

Patricia in Boyhood broke my heart. She was so, so good.

Rosanna...don’t know what to think of her. I only know her from Desperately Seeking Susan, and the performance was amateurish, but she was playing off Madonna, so...

The brother makes me nervous. He’s a younger (?) Tom Arnold as far as I am concerned. Manic. Neurological.

I don’t know much about Alexis, but I do have some level of admiration for her ability to be herself decades before it became quasi-accepted.

In sum, seems like a bold family of ambitious people. I approve. Patricia wins.

Rosanna's daughter Zoe Bleu Sidel is trying to jump start an acting career.

I'm with r132. There is something mythical about a famous dead tranny.

Another kid named Blue? Come on.

Another actor's average-looking kid who is foisted on us as a model/actress/fashion stylist?? Come on.

[quote]That Toto song is about Rosanna as well. She must’ve been an incredible lay.

Actually, it isn't.

The song was written about three different girls (none of them Arquette). They needed a woman's name and they ended up using Rosanna's name. That was the extent of it.

When the song came out, Rosanna hit the press and said the song was written about her. Band members say she made the claim in order to use that song to help get her career going.

I liked Patricia in Boardwalk Empire, in the later seasons. She plays tough very well.. someone not to mess with.

Peter Gabriel was contemplating taking his own life after Rosanna broke up with him. He said it was the most devastating time of his life.

Roseanna seems unpleasant. She was great as the annoying bitch in Pulp Fiction. Type casting?

Patricia seems intense and actressy but kind and thoughtful. David seeens nice but distracted and aloof.

I remember when Rosanna guest starred on a Medium episode. Patricia's character kept saying what a beautiful woman Rosanna was, and I responded with, 'Really?'

Have the Alexis fans seen his/her season of The Surreal Life? Because that show did not make Alexis look good. At all.

My crazy co-worker was convinced that Charlie Weaver was the father of Sigourney Weaver!

Patricia was amazing in True Romance. The only Christian Slater film I've ever loved.

Btw, Alexis was planning on going thru with the surgery. There was even going to be a VH1 reality series documenting it. It was heavily publicized. Then... poof.... just disappeared. He very quietly decided to not go through with it.

What is going on with David? He is doing pro wrestling matches, getting his face busted. It's one thing to act like a rebel when you are 25 and another when you are 50.

I wonder if the Friends plotline of Monica having a boyfriend who wanted to be a boxer was based on David.

[italic] I just noticed Pat's jacked up teeth on WWHL the other night. [italic]

Patricia by far. David comes in second. I watched True Romance last Friday (after going to the movies to see Bohemian Rhapsody.) That put me in the mood for more Patricia, so I started binge watching Medium on Hulu. Guess who shows up as a guest star on season 3, episode 3???? None other than RAMI MALEK!! It felt like a cosmic gift! Too bad it's a very small role as a mother-murdering psychopath, but still!!!

Rosanna's hottest moment?

Roseanna looks like a rodent.

They have that rare multi-sibling fame like the Baldwins, Cusacks, Sheens, Olsens

Wasn't the downfall of Rosanna's career officially revealed to be Weinstein's fault? She wouldn't play with him and was actually blacklisted?

I also adore True Romance, so Patricia probably.

Rosanna joins Ryan Murphy series "Ratched"

That seems appropriate given she is pretty ratchet-looking these days.

The whole family is looking rough these days

Who would win if the Arquette Sisters and the Tilly Sisters were paired against each other in a cage fight?

R66 I wonder if David's was that big.

I want to know more about Richmond? Gay? Straight? Bi? Crazy?

Alexis and his Dad heading off to the Renaissance Faire

Just FYI on struggling with treatment - the fastest way to develop drug-resistant strain of HIV is 48-hour gaps in medication.

In other words missing a day of your meds.

If you only take your medicine once a week, then there’s not enough drug pressure to create a resistant strain. But if you frequently skip just one day of your meds, then you are far more likely to develop drug-resistant HIV. I never knew Alexis Arquette, but it’s possible that they may have been more forgetful about their meds than actually in denial. (Or maybe it was a bit of both.)

Just saw Rosanna Arquette, Jeff Bridges and Andy Garcia in a 1986 thriller called 8 Million Ways to Die. Anyone remember it? Andy Garcia had little rat teeth. Rosanna Arquette was a delicate, vulnerable prostitute.

I adore Rosanna, even when she is stupid (see her tears over white privilege, dear God). Patricia has a horrible voice and a wan acting style that bores me blind. David was cure as a young 'un.

I love R163's sense of humour. So many do indeed look like Gelflings.

I like families that do their own thing

I saw Rosanne the other night on TV and I had no idea who she wAS. I know she is past 50 but the face work had changed her completely. Rosanne was gone.

True Romance is a perfect movie....Christian Slater was so stupid...he did not know it was the best movie he ever made.

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