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Biography:

A rising leading man, David Arquette is a fourth-generation performer in the family which has produced his vaudevillian great-grandfather Gus Arquette, homey comedian 'Charley Weaver' (his grandfather Cliff Arquette), his father Lewis and acting siblings Rosanna, Patricia, Richmond and Alexis. He broke into acting at the dawn of the 1990s and has continuously worked, initially portraying rebellious teens, later heroic leads.

Dark-haired and attractive, Arquette began his acting career while still in high school when he was cast as Two-Bit (originally created by Emilio Estevez in the film) in the short-lived 1990 Fox TV series "The Outsiders". Almost immediately after, the actor landed the role of the airhead teen father Tod (originated by Keanu Reeves in the feature) in the small screen adaptation of "Parenthood" (NBC, 1990). He fared no better in his third attempt at series stardom playing a daredevil Manhattan bicycle messenger in "Double Rush" (CBS, 1995).

On the big screen, however, this quirky performer found his niche. Arquette first garnered notice as one of the homeless teenagers trying to survive in "Where the Day Takes You" (1992). He first gained real notice as the card cheat and murderer Jack McCall in Walter Hill's "Wild Bill" (1995) before undertaking the relatively small role of Timothy Hutton's younger brother in "Beautiful Girls" (1996). Arquette earned notice as the slow-witted but determined deputy tracking a serial killer in "Scream" (also 1996) before winning raves in his first real leading role as a strong-willed hustler in "johns" (1997). Later that year, he debuted as a co-producer with "Dream With the Fishes", in which he gave a twitchy performance as a suicidal voyeur. After a second go at trying to stop a killer in "Scream 2" (also 1997), Arquette lent his deft comic timing to the role of an ambitious salesman who comes to believe his boss may be a murderer in "The Alarmist/Life During Wartime" (1998).

Arquette worked steadily in the late 1990s, appearing in the two "Scream" sequels, essaying supporting roles in dramas such as "Ravenous" (1999) and comedies like "Never Been Kissed" (1998), in which he comically portrayed Drew Barrymore's protective older brother who, following her foray as an undercover journalist in high school, gets to relive his youth as a successful and popular athlete. But for a while Arquette's personal life outshone his on-screen accomplishments when he became romantically linked to the highly popular "Friends" co-star Courteney Cox, whom he met on the set of the first "Scream" film. Although seemingly mismatched-he a kooky free-spirit, she a poised beauty-the couple ultimately married in 1999 and Cox, easily the higher-profile of the two, elected to add "Arquette" to her professional name (a change reflected in a joke during the opening credits of her first post-marriage episode of "Friends' in which all the actors also had "Arquette" tacked onto their names). The actor also headlined the occasional lunkheaded comedy, playing particularly inane, slapstick-prone losers in thuddingly dumb films such as "Ready to Rumble" (2000) and "See Spot Run" (2001), and appeared with his wife in the poorly received Elvis-themed caper flick "3000 Miles to Graceland." But the actor did receive praise for his comedic turn in the intentionally campy monster flick "Eight-Legged Freaks" (2002) and made a dramatic shift for writer-director Tim Blake Nelson's haunting Holocaust film "The Grey Zone" (2002).

Facts:

Name: David Arquette

Birth Name: David Arquette

Height: 5' 11"

Sex: M

Nationality: American

Birth Date: September 8, 1971

Birth Place: Winchester, Virginia, USA

Profession: Actor, Producer, Director, Writer, Composer

Education: Fairfax High School, Los Angeles, California   Mid-City Alternative school (in Mid 70's)

Husband/Wife: Courteney Cox (actress, b. June 15, 1964; meeting on the set of their 1996 movie Scream; married on June 12, 1999)

Relationship: Ellen Barkin (actress; b. April 16, 1954; dated in 1995)

Father: Lewis Arquette (actor; member of the improvisational group The Committee)

Mother: Mardi Arquette (aka Olivia Arquette; poet, political activist, acting teacher)

Sister: Patricia Arquette (actress; born on April 8, 1968) and Rosanna Arquette (actress; b. August 10, 1959)

Brother: Alexis Arquette (aka Eva Destruction, actor, drag artist; born in 1970), Richmond Arquette (writer. born in 1963)

Grand Father: Cliff Arquette (aka Charley Weaver, humorist; b. 28 December 1905)

Daughter: Coco (born on June 13, 2004)

Claim to fame: As Deputy Dwight Dewey Riley in Scream Trilogy