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Patricia Arquette

Patricia Arquette

9 films · 619 frames · top-billed in 6 · 19872014

Born 8 April 1968 · Chicago, Illinois, USA

Patricia T. Arquette is an American actress. She made her feature film debut as Kristen Parker in A Nightmare on Elm Street 3: Dream Warriors (1987). Her other notable films include True Romance (1993), Ed Wood (1994), Flirting with Disaster (1996), Lost Highway (1997), The Hi-Lo Country (1998), Bringing Out the Dead (1999), Stigmata (1999), Holes (2003), Fast Food Nation (2006), The Wannabe (2015), and Toy Story 4 (2019).

Awards

On FrameThrower we have: 9 films · 619 frames · top-billed in 6 · 19872014

  • Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress2015
  • Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actress – Motion Picture2015
  • BAFTA Award for Best Actress in a Supporting Role2015
  • Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Supporting Role
  • Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Miniseries or Television Movie
  • Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Miniseries or a Movie2019
  • Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Drama Series2005
  • Film Independent Spirit Awards2015
  • GLAAD Vanguard Award2017
  • Los Angeles Film Critics Association Award for Best Actress2014

How their films are shot

Measured across 619 frames from the 9 films we hold. This is the look of the work Patricia takes, not a claim about any single frame — we index the cast of a film, never the people in a shot.

Across the 9 films we hold, 62% of their frames are night, 54% low key — the look of the work Patricia takes.

Time of day

Night62%
Day28%
Interior6%

Lighting

Low key54%
Natural28%
High key10%
Chiaroscuro5%

Shot size

Medium49%
Closeup22%
Wide19%
Fullbody6%

Camera angle

Eye level81%
Low angle10%
High angle8%

Mood

Neutral52%
Tense24%
Ominous9%
Lonely6%

Films in the library

Every poster opens that film — stills, cinematography notes and colour palette.

Often with

Shared films in this library, not a full filmography.

A reference database for filmmakers

FrameThrower is a fully machine-searchable film database and visual reference library — all 619 frames from Patricia Arquette's 9 films, and 5,000+ films besides, indexed frame by frame and readable by AI. Search it in plain language, from a reference image, or by colour; call it from an API, an MCP server or an SDK. It's the reference layer for making the next movie.