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- Died
- Birth nameRobert Arquette
- Nicknames
- Eva Destruction
- Lex
- Height1.72 m
- Alexis Arquette (born Robert Arquette) (death: September 11, 2016) was an American actress. Arquette was born in Los Angeles, the fourth of five children of Lewis Arquette, an actor and director, and Brenda Olivia "Mardi" (Nowak), a Jewish actress, poet, theater operator, activist, acting teacher, and therapist. Lewis's family's surname was originally "Arcouet"; Lewis's father was comedian Cliff Arquette, who went by the stage name of Charley Weaver. Arquette was distantly related to American explorer Meriwether Lewis. Actors Rosanna, Richmond, Patricia, and David Arquette are her siblings.- IMDb mini biography by: Bonitao
- ChildrenNo Children
- Parents
- RelativesEnzo Rossi(Niece or Nephew)Harlow Jane(Niece or Nephew)Coco Arquette(Niece or Nephew)Charlie West Arquette(Niece or Nephew)Augustus Alexis Arquette(Niece or Nephew)Richmond Arquette(Sibling)David Arquette(Sibling)Patricia Arquette(Sibling)Rosanna Arquette(Sibling)Cliff Arquette(Grandparent)Julie Harrison(Grandparent)Zoë Bleu(Niece or Nephew)Joseph Nowak(Grandparent)Claire Hibel(Grandparent)
- Longtime friend of Luke Perry.
- Transitioned into a woman in 2006, but since 2013 until his death in 2016, he was living as a man again. According to his brother David Arquette, Alexis said to him that he alternately felt like a man or a woman at different times.
- Was cast as the "Young Boy" in The Tubes' "She's a Beauty" video because she happened to be on the set that day.
- Appearing on the 6th installment of The Surreal Life (2003) on VH-1.
- The family surname was spelled "Arcouet" many generations back. Her father had French-Canadian, English, Swiss-German, German, Scottish, Irish, and Welsh ancestry. Alexis's maternal grandfather, Yusseff "Joseph" Nowack, was a Jewish immigrant from Bila Zerkwa, Kiev, then in the Russian Empire, while Alexis's maternal grandmother, Claire Hibel, was born in New York, to Russian Jewish parents.
- "I enjoy being a character actor, I enjoy being different in everything. I want a private life, I want to be able to go to 7-11 and not get into a fight with a guy because he saw me in a movie, or not have people hitting on me simply because they saw me in a movie. You want to be wanted for who you are, not what you've done or who you've become, and it's hard." Interview with Chris Lee, 1998.
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