- Date of Birth: July 28, 1969
- Place of Birth: Los Angeles, California, USA
Alexis Arquette Biography
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Alexis Arquette mini-bio: Perhaps the most enigmatic -- and unpredictable -- member of the Arquette acting dynasty, Alexis Arquette has appeared in a huge variety of colorful supporting roles that have highlighted both her range and eccentricity as a performer. The grandson of vaudevillians, son of veteran character actor Lewis Arquette and poet Mardi Arquette, and brother of Rosanna, Patricia, David, and Richmond Arquette, she was born in L.A. in 1969. Like her siblings, Arquette broke into film at a young age, making her screen debut with a minor role in Down and out in Beverly Hills in 1986. He had his first breakthrough as Georgette, a sensitive young man with a crush on a neighborhood thug in Last Exit to Brooklyn (1990). Arquette went on to portray characters ranging from a gay university student in Threesome (1994) to an unfortunate gunman summarily dispatched by John Travolta and Samuel L. Jackson in Pulp Fiction (1994) to a Boy George-esque musician in The Wedding Singer (1998). She also did a memorable turn as herself in Wigstock: The Movie (1995), a documentary about New York's famed Outfest in which the actor flaunted plenty of glorious plumage, to say nothing of attitude. Her role in the film was particularly appropriate, considering her well-known second job as a drag performer by the name of Eva Destruction. Although Arquette's offscreen image (fostered by her work as a drag performer and by appearances in a number of gay magazines) has tended to win her a greater reputation than her onscreen work, she remains one of the cinema's more engaging and underrated actors. 
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