Patricia Arquette plays the role of The Storyteller in the movie A Single Woman.

Emmy Award winner Patricia Arquette portrays Allison Dubois, wife and mother of three who also happens to be a gifted psychic able to communicate with the dead in the hit CBS Paramount Network Television drama Medium for NBC.

Arquette continuously films Richard Linklater’s 12 Year Movie a.k.a. Boyhood in which the life of a boy is filmed from the first grade through high school graduation. Her latest film Fast Food Nation premiered at the Cannes Film Festival last year. In addition, she has appeared in Andrew Davis’ Holes starring opposite Sigourney Weaver and Jon Voight. In addition, she can also be seen in Michel Gondry’s Human Nature, The Badge opposite Billy Bob Thornton, and in Little Nicky opposite Adam Sandler.

Arquette’s illustrious film career spans over 16 years with hits including Martin Scorsese’s critically acclaimed Bringing Out the Dead opposite Nicolas Cage, and Rupert Wainwright’s Stigmata opposite Gabriel Byrne.   In addition, Patricia has appeared in Sean Penn’s The Indian Runner, John Madden’s Ethan Frome, Tony Scott’s True Romance, Tim Burton’s Ed Wood, David O. Russell’s Flirting With Disaster, John Boorman’s Beyond Rangoon, Lost Highway (in a dual role for David Lynch),  Steven Frears’s Hi Lo Country, and Roland Jaffe’s Goodbye Lover.

Her telefilm credits include Lifetime’s Wildflower, directed by Diane Keaton, for which Arquette earned a CableAce Award as Best Lead Actress.

Born in Chicago and raised in Los Angeles, Arquette comes from a family of several actors: her grandfather, Cliff Arquette, was a comedian, best known as TV personality Charlie Weaver; her siblings Rosanna, Alexis, Richmond and David are all fellow actors.  Her father was actor Lewis Arquette.