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'''Alexis Arquette''' (July 28, 1969 – September 11, 2016) was an American [[actress]], [[cabaret]] performer, underground [[cartoonist]], and [[activist]]. |
'''Alexis Arquette''' (July 28, 1969 – September 11, 2016) was an American [[actress]], [[cabaret]] performer, underground [[cartoonist]], and [[activist]]. He underwent gender [[Transitioning (transgender)|transitioning]] in his late thirties, and supported other people making similar transitions. |
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==Early life== |
==Early life== |
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Arquette was born in [[Los Angeles]], California, the fourth of five children of Brenda Olivia "Mardi" (née Nowak), an actress, poet, theater operator, activist, acting teacher, and therapist, and [[Lewis Arquette]], an actor and director. Mardi was Jewish,<ref>http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/film/10937835/Patricia-Arquette-interview-on-Boyhood-Nicolas-Cage-and-growing-up.html</ref> and Lewis was a convert to [[Islam]] from Catholicism.<ref name="articles.latimes.com">{{cite web|url=http://articles.latimes.com/2001/feb/13/local/me-24843 |title=Lewis Arquette Obituary Los Angeles Times|date=February 13, 2001|author=Myrna Oliver|publisher=Los Angeles Times|accessdate=2016-04-05}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.filmreference.com/film/93/Rosanna-Arquette.html|title=Rosanna Arquette profile|accessdate=September 12, 2016}}</ref> Lewis's family's surname was originally "Arcouet" of partial French-Canadian ancestry;<ref>''[[Finding Your Roots]]'', February 9, 2016, PBS</ref> Lewis's father was comedian [[Cliff Arquette]]. Alexis Arquette was distantly related to American explorer [[Meriwether Lewis]].<ref name="articles.latimes.com"/><ref>{{cite news|url= http://www.independent.co.uk/arts/film/features/article1219872.ece|title= Patricia Arquette: The not-so-dippy hippie| website= Independent.co.uk|location=London, UK|first=Liz|last=Hoggard|date=August 18, 2006|accessdate=2010-04-23}}</ref> Actors [[Rosanna Arquette|Rosanna]], [[Richmond Arquette|Richmond]], [[Patricia Arquette|Patricia]], and [[David Arquette]] are |
Arquette was born in [[Los Angeles]], California, the fourth of five children of Brenda Olivia "Mardi" (née Nowak), an actress, poet, theater operator, activist, acting teacher, and therapist, and [[Lewis Arquette]], an actor and director. Mardi was Jewish,<ref>http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/film/10937835/Patricia-Arquette-interview-on-Boyhood-Nicolas-Cage-and-growing-up.html</ref> and Lewis was a convert to [[Islam]] from Catholicism.<ref name="articles.latimes.com">{{cite web|url=http://articles.latimes.com/2001/feb/13/local/me-24843 |title=Lewis Arquette Obituary Los Angeles Times|date=February 13, 2001|author=Myrna Oliver|publisher=Los Angeles Times|accessdate=2016-04-05}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.filmreference.com/film/93/Rosanna-Arquette.html|title=Rosanna Arquette profile|accessdate=September 12, 2016}}</ref> Lewis's family's surname was originally "Arcouet" of partial French-Canadian ancestry;<ref>''[[Finding Your Roots]]'', February 9, 2016, PBS</ref> Lewis's father was comedian [[Cliff Arquette]]. Alexis Arquette was distantly related to American explorer [[Meriwether Lewis]].<ref name="articles.latimes.com"/><ref>{{cite news|url= http://www.independent.co.uk/arts/film/features/article1219872.ece|title= Patricia Arquette: The not-so-dippy hippie| website= Independent.co.uk|location=London, UK|first=Liz|last=Hoggard|date=August 18, 2006|accessdate=2010-04-23}}</ref> Actors [[Rosanna Arquette|Rosanna]], [[Richmond Arquette|Richmond]], [[Patricia Arquette|Patricia]], and [[David Arquette]] are his siblings. |
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==Career== |
==Career== |
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Arquette, in the earlier years of |
Arquette, in the earlier years of his career, primarily performed as a female impersonator, frequently under the name "Eva Destruction". Later in his career, he made public that he had begun the process leading to [[sex reassignment surgery]].<ref>{{cite web |url = http://www.queerday.com/2005/oct/14/alexis_arquettes_sex_change_documentary_to_air_on_ae.html |title = Alexis Arquette's Sex Change Documentary to Air on A&E |publisher = Queer Day |date = 14 Oct 2007 |accessdate = 2007-04-05 }}</ref> To this end, Arquette had publicly declared that he considered his [[gender]] to be female. |
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At nineteen, Arquette landed a sizeable film role, playing [[Transgender|trans]] [[sex worker]] Georgette in the screen adaptation of ''[[Last Exit to Brooklyn (film)|Last Exit to Brooklyn]]''.<ref name=":0">{{Cite news|url=https://www.theguardian.com/film/2016/sep/11/actor-and-activist-alexis-arquette-dies-aged-47|title=Alexis Arquette: actor and activist dies aged 47|last=Press|first=Associated|date=2016-09-12|newspaper=The Guardian|language=en-GB|issn=0261-3077|access-date=2016-09-12}}</ref> The majority of Arquette's film work was in low-budget or [[independent film]]s. In total, Arquette starred in more than 40 movies, including ''[[I Think I Do]],'' ''[[Children of the Corn V: Fields of Terror]]'', and ''[[Sometimes They Come Back... Again]]''. Arquette also starred as a crack addict opposite [[Tim Roth]] in ''Jumpin' at the Boneyard'', as a teenage boy seeking revenge for a horrible childhood in the New Zealand-shot horror fantasy ''[[Jack Be Nimble (film)|Jack Be Nimble]]'', and as a murderous drag queen in the low budget comedy ''[[Killer Drag Queens on Dope]]''.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.stuff.co.nz/entertainment/celebrities/84148366/actress-and-activist-alexis-arquette-dead-at-47|title=Alexis Arquette's Kiwi role|website=Stuff|access-date=2016-09-12}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.vudu.com/movies/#!content/84996/Jumpin-at-the-Boneyard|title=VUDU - Watch Movies|website=www.vudu.com|access-date=2016-09-12}}</ref> |
At nineteen, Arquette landed a sizeable film role, playing [[Transgender|trans]] [[sex worker]] Georgette in the screen adaptation of ''[[Last Exit to Brooklyn (film)|Last Exit to Brooklyn]]''.<ref name=":0">{{Cite news|url=https://www.theguardian.com/film/2016/sep/11/actor-and-activist-alexis-arquette-dies-aged-47|title=Alexis Arquette: actor and activist dies aged 47|last=Press|first=Associated|date=2016-09-12|newspaper=The Guardian|language=en-GB|issn=0261-3077|access-date=2016-09-12}}</ref> The majority of Arquette's film work was in low-budget or [[independent film]]s. In total, Arquette starred in more than 40 movies, including ''[[I Think I Do]],'' ''[[Children of the Corn V: Fields of Terror]]'', and ''[[Sometimes They Come Back... Again]]''. Arquette also starred as a crack addict opposite [[Tim Roth]] in ''Jumpin' at the Boneyard'', as a teenage boy seeking revenge for a horrible childhood in the New Zealand-shot horror fantasy ''[[Jack Be Nimble (film)|Jack Be Nimble]]'', and as a murderous drag queen in the low budget comedy ''[[Killer Drag Queens on Dope]]''.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.stuff.co.nz/entertainment/celebrities/84148366/actress-and-activist-alexis-arquette-dead-at-47|title=Alexis Arquette's Kiwi role|website=Stuff|access-date=2016-09-12}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.vudu.com/movies/#!content/84996/Jumpin-at-the-Boneyard|title=VUDU - Watch Movies|website=www.vudu.com|access-date=2016-09-12}}</ref> |
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Arquette also had supporting roles in ''[[Pulp Fiction]]'', ''[[Threesome (film)|Threesome]]'' and ''[[Bride of Chucky]],''<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.mirror.co.uk/3am/celebrity-news/alexis-arquette-dead-47-wedding-8814514|title=Wedding Singer actress Alexis Arquette dies aged 47 listening to Bowie's Starman|last=Greenwood|first=Carl|date=2016-09-11|access-date=2016-09-12}}</ref> and |
Arquette also had supporting roles in ''[[Pulp Fiction]]'', ''[[Threesome (film)|Threesome]]'' and ''[[Bride of Chucky]],''<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.mirror.co.uk/3am/celebrity-news/alexis-arquette-dead-47-wedding-8814514|title=Wedding Singer actress Alexis Arquette dies aged 47 listening to Bowie's Starman|last=Greenwood|first=Carl|date=2016-09-11|access-date=2016-09-12}}</ref> and he played a [[Boy George]] fanatic, George Stitzer, in the [[Adam Sandler]]–[[Drew Barrymore]] film ''[[The Wedding Singer]]'', singing "[[Do You Really Want to Hurt Me]]" over and over. His role as Georgina, a Boy George impersonator, in another Sandler–Barrymore film, ''[[Blended (film)|Blended]]'', was a reference to that role. In 2001, Arquette returned to New Zealand to play [[Ancient Rome|Roman]] emperor [[Caligula]] in two episodes of ''[[Xena: Warrior Princess]]''.<ref name=":2">{{Cite web|url=https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/1765684/actress-alexis-arquette-dies-aged-47-while-listening-to-david-bowie-hit-starman/|title=Actress Alexis Arquette dies aged 47 while listening to David Bowie hit ‘Starman’|date=2016-09-11|language=en-US|access-date=2016-09-12}}</ref> That same year, Arquette guest starred in the ''[[Friends]]'' episode "[[The One with Chandler's Dad]]", in which he directly interacted with his sister-in-law, [[Courteney Cox]]. Also in the same year, he cameoed in ''[[Son of the Beach]]''.<ref name=":2" /> |
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In September 2005, [[VH1]] announced Arquette as one of the celebrity house-guests on the 6th season of ''[[The Surreal Life]]''. On January 31, 2007, Arquette was a featured celebrity client and guest judge on the première episode of [[Bravo (US TV channel)|Bravo's]] reality show ''[[Top Design]]''.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.mirror.co.uk/3am/celebrity-news/who-alexis-arquette-profile-transgender-8814967|title=Who is Alexis Arquette? Profile of the Wedding Singer actress who has died at 47|last=McGeorge|first=Alistair|date=2016-09-12|access-date=2016-09-12}}</ref> Arquette also made a cameo appearance in [[Robbie Williams]]' ''[[She's Madonna]]'' video.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.robbiewilliams.com/video/official/shes-madonna-music-video|title=She's Madonna: Music Video|website=RobbieWilliams.com|access-date=2016-09-12}}</ref> |
In September 2005, [[VH1]] announced Arquette as one of the celebrity house-guests on the 6th season of ''[[The Surreal Life]]''. On January 31, 2007, Arquette was a featured celebrity client and guest judge on the première episode of [[Bravo (US TV channel)|Bravo's]] reality show ''[[Top Design]]''.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.mirror.co.uk/3am/celebrity-news/who-alexis-arquette-profile-transgender-8814967|title=Who is Alexis Arquette? Profile of the Wedding Singer actress who has died at 47|last=McGeorge|first=Alistair|date=2016-09-12|access-date=2016-09-12}}</ref> Arquette also made a cameo appearance in [[Robbie Williams]]' ''[[She's Madonna]]'' video.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.robbiewilliams.com/video/official/shes-madonna-music-video|title=She's Madonna: Music Video|website=RobbieWilliams.com|access-date=2016-09-12}}</ref> |
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==Personal life and death== |
==Personal life and death== |
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In 2004, Arquette expressed an interest in undergoing formal male-to-female [[Transitioning (transgender)|transitioning]] by the use of hormone treatments and, ultimately [[sex reassignment surgery]], which |
In 2004, Arquette expressed an interest in undergoing formal male-to-female [[Transitioning (transgender)|transitioning]] by the use of hormone treatments and, ultimately [[sex reassignment surgery]], which he realized in 2006, in his late 30s.<ref name=":1">{{Cite web|url=http://starcasm.net/archives/246127|title=BEFORE & AFTER Alexis Arquette’s experiences as a transgender woman in Hollywood|date=2013-10-03|language=en-US|access-date=2016-09-12}}</ref> Those experiences were documented in the film ''Alexis Arquette: She's My Brother'', which debuted at the 2007 [[Tribeca Film Festival]].<ref name="newsweek">{{cite web|url=http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/18615747/site/newsweek|title=None of Us Are Safe|last=Ali|first=Lorraine|date=May 13, 2007|publisher=''Newsweek''}}</ref> Arquette was a vocal supporter of transgender people, including [[Chaz Bono]], who transitioned from 2006 to 2008.<ref name=":1"/> |
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In 2013, amid increasing health complications, Alexis began presenting herself as a man again, telling close friend and drag performer Sham Ibrahim that "'Gender is bullshit. Putting on a dress doesn't biologically change anything. Nor does a sex-change.' Arquette told Ibrahim that "sex-reassignment is physically impossible. All you can do is adopt these superficial characteristics but the biology will never change."<ref>{{cite web|first=Seth|last=Abramovitch|url=http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/final-days-alexis-arquette-a-928507|title=A Tear in the Ocean: The Final Days of Alexis Arquette|publisher=Hollywoodreporter.com|accessdate=2016-09-13}}</ref> Robert Dupont, a former boyfriend of Arquette's, also confirmed that Arquette had transitioned back to his male identity prior to his death. Dupont said "My twin brother Richard and I had lunch with him in Santa Monica less than a month [before his death]". According to Dupont, |
In 2013, amid increasing health complications, Alexis began presenting herself as a man again, telling close friend and drag performer Sham Ibrahim that "'Gender is bullshit. Putting on a dress doesn't biologically change anything. Nor does a sex-change.' Arquette told Ibrahim that "sex-reassignment is physically impossible. All you can do is adopt these superficial characteristics but the biology will never change."<ref>{{cite web|first=Seth|last=Abramovitch|url=http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/final-days-alexis-arquette-a-928507|title=A Tear in the Ocean: The Final Days of Alexis Arquette|publisher=Hollywoodreporter.com|accessdate=2016-09-13}}</ref> Robert Dupont, a former boyfriend of Arquette's, also confirmed that Arquette had transitioned back to his male identity prior to his death. Dupont said "My twin brother Richard and I had lunch with him in Santa Monica less than a month [before his death]". According to Dupont, |
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"Alexis had changed over and was living as a man again, and he asked me if I had any clothes I didn’t want that he could wear." After Arquette's death, Dupont and his brother Richard shared pictures showing the activist and actor living as a man. <ref>{{cite web|first=Khaleda|last=Rahman|url=http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3786170/Alexis-Arquette-living-man-dying-AIDS-complications-aged-47.html|title=REVEALED: Alexis Arquette was 'living as a man again before dying from AIDS complications aged 47|publisher=Dailymail.com|accessdate=2016-09-12}}</ref> |
"Alexis had changed over and was living as a man again, and he asked me if I had any clothes I didn’t want that he could wear." After Arquette's death, Dupont and his brother Richard shared pictures showing the activist and actor living as a man. <ref>{{cite web|first=Khaleda|last=Rahman|url=http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3786170/Alexis-Arquette-living-man-dying-AIDS-complications-aged-47.html|title=REVEALED: Alexis Arquette was 'living as a man again before dying from AIDS complications aged 47|publisher=Dailymail.com|accessdate=2016-09-12}}</ref> |
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Arquette was placed in a medically induced coma and died on September 11, 2016, surrounded by close family, at the age of 47. Arquette was serenaded with [[David Bowie]]'s "[[Starman (song)|Starman]]".<ref>{{cite web|first=Nicholas|last=Hautman|url=http://www.usmagazine.com/celebrity-news/news/alexis-arquette-dead-transgender-actress-dies-at-47-w439001|title=Alexis Arquette Dead: Transgender Actress Dies at 47|publisher=Usmagazine.com|accessdate=2016-09-11}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.people.com/article/alexis-arquette-dead-transgender-actress|title=Alexis Arquette, Transgender Actress and Sister to David and Patricia Arquette, Has Died|publisher=People|first1=Kara|last1=Warner|first2=Julie|last2=Mazziota|date=September 11, 2016|accessdate=2016-09-11}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.facebook.com/richmond.arquette/posts/10154498777830879|title=Press release from Patricia on behalf of all of us|author=[[Richmond Arquette]]|date=September 11, 2016|accessdate=2016-09-14}}</ref> The cause of death was [[cardiac arrest]] caused by [[myocarditis]] ultimately stemming from [[HIV]], which Arquette had contracted 29 years earlier.<ref name="TMZ"/><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.independent.co.uk/news/people/alexis-arquette-hiv-death-certificate-29-years-a7320251.html||title=Alexis Arquette's death certificate shows |
Arquette was placed in a medically induced coma and died on September 11, 2016, surrounded by close family, at the age of 47. Arquette was serenaded with [[David Bowie]]'s "[[Starman (song)|Starman]]".<ref>{{cite web|first=Nicholas|last=Hautman|url=http://www.usmagazine.com/celebrity-news/news/alexis-arquette-dead-transgender-actress-dies-at-47-w439001|title=Alexis Arquette Dead: Transgender Actress Dies at 47|publisher=Usmagazine.com|accessdate=2016-09-11}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.people.com/article/alexis-arquette-dead-transgender-actress|title=Alexis Arquette, Transgender Actress and Sister to David and Patricia Arquette, Has Died|publisher=People|first1=Kara|last1=Warner|first2=Julie|last2=Mazziota|date=September 11, 2016|accessdate=2016-09-11}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.facebook.com/richmond.arquette/posts/10154498777830879|title=Press release from Patricia on behalf of all of us|author=[[Richmond Arquette]]|date=September 11, 2016|accessdate=2016-09-14}}</ref> The cause of death was [[cardiac arrest]] caused by [[myocarditis]] ultimately stemming from [[HIV]], which Arquette had contracted 29 years earlier.<ref name="TMZ"/><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.independent.co.uk/news/people/alexis-arquette-hiv-death-certificate-29-years-a7320251.html||title=Alexis Arquette's death certificate shows he lived with HIV for 29 years|author=Maya Oppenhim|date=September 21, 2016|publisher=The Independent|accessdate=2016-09-21}}</ref> |
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==Filmography== |
==Filmography== |
Revision as of 00:56, 15 August 2017
Alexis Arquette | |
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Born | Robert Arquette July 28, 1969 Los Angeles, California, U.S. |
Died | September 11, 2016 Los Angeles, California, U.S. | (aged 47)
Cause of death | Cardiac arrest caused by HIV [1] |
Resting place | Westwood Village Memorial Park Cemetery, California, U.S. |
Other names | Eva Destruction |
Occupation(s) | Actress, musician, singer, cartoonist |
Years active | 1982-2015 |
Parent(s) | Lewis Arquette Brenda Olivia Nowak |
Relatives |
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Family | Arquette |
Alexis Arquette (July 28, 1969 – September 11, 2016) was an American actress, cabaret performer, underground cartoonist, and activist. He underwent gender transitioning in his late thirties, and supported other people making similar transitions.
Early life
Arquette was born in Los Angeles, California, the fourth of five children of Brenda Olivia "Mardi" (née Nowak), an actress, poet, theater operator, activist, acting teacher, and therapist, and Lewis Arquette, an actor and director. Mardi was Jewish,[2] and Lewis was a convert to Islam from Catholicism.[3][4] Lewis's family's surname was originally "Arcouet" of partial French-Canadian ancestry;[5] Lewis's father was comedian Cliff Arquette. Alexis Arquette was distantly related to American explorer Meriwether Lewis.[3][6] Actors Rosanna, Richmond, Patricia, and David Arquette are his siblings.
Career
In 1982, at the age of 12, Arquette's first acting gig was as "this little kid who's on a ride with all these women and whatnot" in the music video "She's a Beauty" by The Tubes.[7] In 1986, Arquette debuted on the big screen in an uncredited role as Alexis, the androgynous friend and bandmate of sexually ambivalent teenager Max Whiteman (Evan Richards) in Down and Out in Beverly Hills.[8]
Arquette, in the earlier years of his career, primarily performed as a female impersonator, frequently under the name "Eva Destruction". Later in his career, he made public that he had begun the process leading to sex reassignment surgery.[9] To this end, Arquette had publicly declared that he considered his gender to be female.
At nineteen, Arquette landed a sizeable film role, playing trans sex worker Georgette in the screen adaptation of Last Exit to Brooklyn.[10] The majority of Arquette's film work was in low-budget or independent films. In total, Arquette starred in more than 40 movies, including I Think I Do, Children of the Corn V: Fields of Terror, and Sometimes They Come Back... Again. Arquette also starred as a crack addict opposite Tim Roth in Jumpin' at the Boneyard, as a teenage boy seeking revenge for a horrible childhood in the New Zealand-shot horror fantasy Jack Be Nimble, and as a murderous drag queen in the low budget comedy Killer Drag Queens on Dope.[11][12]
Arquette also had supporting roles in Pulp Fiction, Threesome and Bride of Chucky,[13] and he played a Boy George fanatic, George Stitzer, in the Adam Sandler–Drew Barrymore film The Wedding Singer, singing "Do You Really Want to Hurt Me" over and over. His role as Georgina, a Boy George impersonator, in another Sandler–Barrymore film, Blended, was a reference to that role. In 2001, Arquette returned to New Zealand to play Roman emperor Caligula in two episodes of Xena: Warrior Princess.[14] That same year, Arquette guest starred in the Friends episode "The One with Chandler's Dad", in which he directly interacted with his sister-in-law, Courteney Cox. Also in the same year, he cameoed in Son of the Beach.[14]
In September 2005, VH1 announced Arquette as one of the celebrity house-guests on the 6th season of The Surreal Life. On January 31, 2007, Arquette was a featured celebrity client and guest judge on the première episode of Bravo's reality show Top Design.[15] Arquette also made a cameo appearance in Robbie Williams' She's Madonna video.[16]
Personal life and death
In 2004, Arquette expressed an interest in undergoing formal male-to-female transitioning by the use of hormone treatments and, ultimately sex reassignment surgery, which he realized in 2006, in his late 30s.[17] Those experiences were documented in the film Alexis Arquette: She's My Brother, which debuted at the 2007 Tribeca Film Festival.[18] Arquette was a vocal supporter of transgender people, including Chaz Bono, who transitioned from 2006 to 2008.[17]
In 2013, amid increasing health complications, Alexis began presenting herself as a man again, telling close friend and drag performer Sham Ibrahim that "'Gender is bullshit. Putting on a dress doesn't biologically change anything. Nor does a sex-change.' Arquette told Ibrahim that "sex-reassignment is physically impossible. All you can do is adopt these superficial characteristics but the biology will never change."[19] Robert Dupont, a former boyfriend of Arquette's, also confirmed that Arquette had transitioned back to his male identity prior to his death. Dupont said "My twin brother Richard and I had lunch with him in Santa Monica less than a month [before his death]". According to Dupont, "Alexis had changed over and was living as a man again, and he asked me if I had any clothes I didn’t want that he could wear." After Arquette's death, Dupont and his brother Richard shared pictures showing the activist and actor living as a man. [20]
Arquette was placed in a medically induced coma and died on September 11, 2016, surrounded by close family, at the age of 47. Arquette was serenaded with David Bowie's "Starman".[21][22][23] The cause of death was cardiac arrest caused by myocarditis ultimately stemming from HIV, which Arquette had contracted 29 years earlier.[1][24]
Filmography
Year | Title | Role | Notes |
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1989 | Last Exit to Brooklyn | Georgette | |
1990 | Gavre Princip – Himmel unter Steinen | Milan | |
1990 | High Score | Yago / Freddie | |
1992 | Jumpin' at the Boneyard | Dan | |
1992 | Terminal Bliss | Craig Murphy | |
1992 | Buffy the Vampire Slayer | Vampire DJ | |
1992 | Of Mice and Men | Whitt | |
1992 | Miracle Beach | Lars | |
1993 | Ghost Brigade | Cpl. Dawson | |
1993 | Grief | Bill | |
1993 | Jack Be Nimble | Jack | |
1994 | Threesome | Dick | |
1994 | Pulp Fiction | Man #4 | |
1994 | Don't Do It | David | |
1995 | Days of the Pentecost | Mechanic | |
1995 | Paradise Framed | ||
1995 | Frank & Jesse | Charlie Ford | |
1995 | Frisk | Punk (victim #3) | |
1995 | White Man's Burden | Panhandler | |
1996 | Kiss & Tell | Amerod Burkowitz |
Wigstock: The Movie Himself |
1996 | Cosas que nunca te dije | Paul | |
1996 | Sometimes They Come Back... Again | Tony Reno | Video |
1996 | Never Met Picasso | Andrew Magnus | |
1996 | Scream, Teen, Scream | Lisa Marie | Short film |
1997 | Inside Out | Adam | Short film |
1997 | Goodbye America | Paul Bladon | |
1997 | I Think I Do | Bob | |
1997 | Close To | Deaf Mute | Short film |
1998 | Fool's Gold | Mark | |
1998 | The Wedding Singer | George | |
1998 | Cleopatra's Second Husband | Alex | |
1998 | The Thin Pink Line | Mr. Ed | |
1998 | Children of the Corn V: Fields of Terror | Greg | Video |
1998 | Bride of Chucky | Damien | |
1999 | She's All That | Mitch | |
1999 | Clubland | Steven | |
1999 | Out in Fifty | Kim | |
1999 | Love Kills | James | |
2000 | Piccadilly Pickups | Henri de la Plus Ooh Arrgh | |
2000 | The Price of Air | Willy | |
2000 | Boys Life 3 | Adam | Segment: "Inside Out" |
2001 | Perfect Lover | Onix | |
2001 | Audit | Richard | Short film |
2001 | Tomorrow by Midnight | Sidney | |
2002 | The Trip | Michael | |
2002 | Spun | Moustache Cop | |
2003 | Killer Drag Queens on Dope | Ginger | credited as Eva Destruction |
2003 | The Movie Hero | Strange, Yet Attractive Woman | |
2003 | Wasabi Tuna | Champagne Anna | |
2005 | Lords of Dogtown | Tranny | |
2010 | Here & Now | Ramona | |
2010 | Hard Breakers | Ms. Independence | |
2011 | Getting Back to Zero | Judy | |
2013 | Tranzloco | Alexis | |
2014 | Blended | Georgina | |
2015 | Playing the Straight Man | Alexis | Short Film |
Television
Year | Title | Role | Notes |
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1989 | Alien Nation | John Barrymore | Episode: "Contact" |
1991 | American Playhouse | Werner Hauser | Episode: "The Hollow Boy" |
1994 | Lies of the Heart: The Story of Laurie Kellogg | Denver McDowell | TV film |
1995 | Dead Weekend | McHacker | TV film |
1995 | Roseanne | Episode: "December Bride" | |
1999 | The Strip | Cleo | Episodes: "Games Without Frontiers", "Send Me an Angel", "Even Better Than the Real Thing" |
1999–2000 | Beggars and Choosers | Larry / Lola | TV series |
2000 | Felicity | Jim | Episode: "Docuventary II" |
2000 | Friends | The Customer | Episode: "The One with Rachel's Sister" |
2001 | Friends | Waiter in Drag | Episode: "The One with Chandler's Dad" |
2001 | Xena: Warrior Princess | Caligula | Episodes: "The God You Know", "You Are There" |
2001 | Son of the Beach | Beverly | Episode: "B.J. Blue Hawaii" |
2005 | Wanted | Paula | Episode: "Lips Are Lips" |
2008 | Californication | Lady in Jail | Episode: "The Great Ashby" |
Awards and nominations
Year | Award | Category | Nominated work | Result |
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1994 | Fangoria Chainsaw Awards | Best Actor | Nominated | |
1997 | L.A. Outfest | Outstanding Actor in a Feature Film | Won |
References
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