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Rosanna Arquette (born August 10, 1959) is an
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, was well known as
"J. W. 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 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. 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.
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 (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, 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 2004 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
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