I'm really blown away by Alexis' courage, because to be a trans woman in America is a very dangerous thing, i think in the whole world, it's a very dangerous thing.

Patricia Arquette

Patricia Arquette is an American actress. Her film appearances include Tony Scott's True Romance, Tim Burton's Ed Wood, John Boorman's Beyond Rangoon, David O. Russell's Flirting with Disaster, David Lynch's Lost Highway, Stephen Frears's The Hi-Lo Country, and Martin Scorsese's Bringing Out The Dead and Holes. In 2014, she played the mother in Richard Linklater's Boyhood; for her performance she received a Golden Globe for Best Supporting Actress- Motion Picture, the Critics' Choice Movie Award for Best Supporting Actress and the SAG Award for Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Supporting Role, as well as a nomination for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress. On television, she played real life psychic Allison DuBois in the supernatural drama series Medium for seven seasons in which she received three Golden Globe nominations and two Emmy Award nominations, winning the Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Drama in 2005. Starting midseason 2015, Arquette will star in the CSI: Crime Scene Investigation spinoff CSI: Cyber as Special Agent Avery Ryan.

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