Alexis Arquette

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Biography

American actress, cabaret performer and activist

  • Primary profession
  • Actress·art_department·producer
  • Country
  • United States
  • Nationality
  • American
  • Gender
  • Female
  • Birth date
  • 28 July 1969
  • Place of birth
  • Los Angeles
  • Death date
  • 2016-09-11
  • Death age
  • 47
  • Place of death
  • Beverly Hills· California
  • Cause of death
  • Natural causes
  • Knows language
  • English language
  • Parents
  • Lewis Arquette

Movies

Books

Trivia

Arquette posed as the Hindu god Krishna for a controversial cover for Genre Magazine (a gay mens publication).

Daughter of Lewis Arquette and Brenda Denaut.

Sister of Richmond Arquette , David Arquette , Patricia Arquette , and Rosanna Arquette.

Granddaughter of Cliff Arquette and Julie Harrison.

Former sister-in-law of actors Nicolas Cage , and Thomas Jane who were married to her sister, Patricia Arquette.

Alexis is also an L.A. area underground cartoonist, her most famous strip was called "Nicos Mobile Mole" and was about her friend, actress Nico Petrakis.

Was cast as the "Young Boy" in The Tubes "Shes a Beauty" video because she happened to be on the set that day.

Former sister-in-law of Tony Greco , James Newton Howard and John Sidel , who were married to her sister, Rosanna Arquette.

Sister-in-law of Todd Morgan, Rosannas 4th husband.

Former sister-in-Law of Courteney Cox , who was married to her brother, David Arquette.

Aunt of Zoe Bleu (Rosannas daughter), Enzo Rossi , Harlow Olivia Calliope Elliott (Patricias children), Coco Arquette and Charlie West & Augustus Alexis Arquette (Davids children).

The family surname was spelled "Arcouet" many generations back. Her father had French-Canadian, English, Swiss-German, German, Scottish, Irish, and Welsh ancestry. Alexiss maternal grandfather, Yusseff "Joseph" Nowack, was a Jewish immigrant from Bila Zerkwa, Kiev, then in the Russian Empire, while Alexiss maternal grandmother, Claire Hibel, was born in New York, to Russian Jewish parents.

(March 2006) Appearing on the 6th installment of "The Surreal Life" on VH-1.

Sister-in-law of Christina McLarty , Davids second wife.

Quotes

"I enjoy being a character actor, I enjoy being different in everything.

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