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Monday, January 31, 2011

Rosanna Arquette

Rosanna Lauren Arquette (born August 10, 1959) is an American actress, film director andproducer.



Career

Arquette has appeared in both television and screen films. In 1982, she earned an Emmy Awardnomination for the TV film The Executioner's Song. Arquette's first starring role was in John Sayles's Baby It's You, a highly regarded but little seen film.[citation needed] She starred inDesperately Seeking Susan (1985) alongside pop singer Madonna, for which she won a British Academy Film Awards (BAFTA). Following the commercial and critical failure of both After Hoursand 8 Million Ways to Die, she quit Hollywood to work in Europe where she acted in Luc Besson's The Big Blue (1988).
In 1989, director Martin Scorsese offered her a part in New York Stories. Other movies of note are Pulp Fiction and the David Cronenberg film, Crash and the Australian film Wendy Cracked a Walnut (1990) (also known as …Almost). In 1990, Arquette appeared on the cover and in a nude pictorial in Playboy's September issue, although she claimed it was without her prior knowledge or consent.[1]
In recent years, Arquette has expanded into directing, including the documentaries Searching for Debra Winger (2002) and All We Are Saying (2005); she also produced both projects.[2]
Arquette appeared in the short running What About Brian as Nicole Varsi and on Showtime'sThe L Word as Cherie Jaffe.[citation needed]
In 2009, she joined Fit Parent Magazine, founded by Craig Knight, as Editor at Large.[3] Arquette stars in the French thriller The Divide, directed by Xavier Gens.[4]


Personal life

Arquette at the 2009 Cannes Film Festival.
Arquette was born in New York City, the daughter of Brenda "Mardi" Olivia (née Nowak), an actress, poet, theater operator, activist, acting teacher and therapist, and Lewis Arquette, an actor and director.[5] Arquette's paternal grandfather was comedian Cliff Arquette. Arquette's mother wasJewish, the daughter of a Holocaust refugee from Poland,[6] and Arquette's father was a convert toIslam and a descendant of explorer Meriwether Lewis.[7][8][9] Arquette's siblings are actorsPatriciaAlexisRichmond and David Arquette.
In 1963, Arquette's family moved to Chicago, where her father managed The Second City theater for several years. When she was eleven years old, her parents moved to a commune in Front RoyalVirginia. Arquette did not do well at school.[citation needed] In 1974, she hitchhiked across the country with three older teenagers, eventually going to San Francisco, where she worked atrenaissance and Dickens fairs. Her professional theater debut was May 27, 1977, appearing in the Story Theatre Musical production of Ovid's The Metamorphoses at the Callboard Theatre on Melrose Place in Los Angeles.[citation needed]
Arquette was 19 when she married director/composer Tony Greco; they divorced in October 1980.
Arquette briefly dated Toto member Steve Porcaro. The band's Grammy Award-winning single "Rosanna," the lead track on the album Toto IV was named after her since her name "fit the song and chorus very well", but the song itself was not about her, according to writer David Paich.[10] In a 1983 interview with Rolling Stone, Arquette said that she used to bring the band "juice and beer" at all hours of the night during their recording sessions.
Her 1986 marriage to composer James Newton Howard also ended in divorce. She lived with musician Peter Gabriel during the late '80s and early '90s, but they never married.
Arquette married restaurateur John Sidel in 1993. One year later their daughter, Zoe Blue Sidel, was born. Arquette went on working intensively, which meant she was often away from home. The couple divorced in 1999.[citation needed]
Arquette promotes awareness of breast cancer, while continuing with her work as a director. Her mother died of breast cancer in 1997. In2002 her critically acclaimed documentary Searching for Debra Winger was released. In the film, Arquette interviews prominent and respected actresses (mostly between the ages of 30 and 60) to explore the practicalities for a working actress to successfully maintain a family.[citation needed]


Actress


Filmography as director/producer

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