Patricia Arquette won the best supporting actress Oscar on Sunday, earning the first Academy Award for a family of actors spanning three generations. Crowing a three-decade career, the 46-year-old blonde with the icy blue eyes took one of Hollywood's top prizes for playing a single mother in director Richard Linklater's coming-of-age drama "Boyhood."
The Illinois native had long been the favourite in the category after winning a Golden Globe, a BAFTA and other accolades in the run-up to the Oscars. She defeated Emma Stone ("Birdman"), Laura Dern ("Wild"), three-time winner Meryl Streep ("Into the Woods") and Britain's Keira Knightley ("The Imitation Game").
The role of Olivia in "Boyhood" - she chose the name in tribute to her mother - revived Arquette's big screen career. After tasting success as a movie star in the 1990s, she had shifted her focus to television about 10 years ago.
She called the film a "unique experience" - the actors filmed for a few days every year for 12 years, following the life of a boy from aged five until going off to college at 18.
Art imitating life Rosanna Arquette was one of the most popular actresses of the 1980s, including with the 1985 cult film "Desperately Seeking Susan" and 1988's "The Big Blue," among others. Brothers David, Richmond and Alexis are also actors, along with father Lewis and her grandfather. Her mother Brenda Denaut - whose middle name was Olivia - was a drama teacher.
Arquette scored her first big-screen role at age 19, in 1987's "A Nightmare on Elm Street 3: Dream Warriors." Among her most memorable roles are in "Ed Wood" directed by Tim Burton, in which she co-starred with Johnny Depp, and David O Russell's "Flirting with Disaster" (1996), with Ben Stiller. Her credits also include "Lost Highway" by David Lynch (1997), "The Hi-Lo Country" (1998) by Stephen Frears and Martin Scorsese's "Bringing Out the Dead" (1999), in which she co-starred with Cage, whom she had married in 1995.
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