Alexis Arquette

At 47 years old, Alexis Arquette has this physical status:

Alexis Arquette (July 28, 1969 – September 11, 2016) was an American actress, cabaret performer, underground cartoonist, and activist.

Early life

Arquette was born in Los Angeles, the fourth of Lewis Arquette's five children, as well as Brenda Olivia "Mardi" (née Nowak), a Jewish actor, poet, activist, and therapist. Lewis' surname was originally "Arcouet"; Lewis' father, Cliff Arquette, went by the stage name Charley Weaver, was originally "Arcouet." Arquette was distantly related to American explorer Meriwether Lewis. Rosanna, Richmond, Patricia, and David Arquette are her siblings.

Personal life and death

Arquette expressed an interest in receiving gender-transitioning medical care in 2004. She decided against hormone therapy and kept her option of whether she underwent gender-affirming surgery private from the media until she completed her transition in 2006. In the film Alexis Arquette: She's My Brother, which premiered at the 2007 Tribeca Film Festival, she was chronicled. Arquette, a vocal supporter of other transgender people, including Chaz Bono, who died shortly after Arquette.

In 1987, Arquette contracted HIV. Arquette suffered from ill health as a result of being HIV-positive in later life. Alexis began to appear as a man in 2013 despite the growing difficulties. Alexis was "gender suspicious," according to Brother David Arquette, who has alternately felt like a man or a woman at different times. Arquette died on September 11, 2016, surrounded by close family members at the age of 47, after being placed in a medically induced coma. Arquette was serenaded with David Bowie's "Starman." Myocarditis related to HIV was the primary cause of death, according to the government.

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Career

In the music video "She's a Beauty" by The Tubes in 1982, Arquette's first acting gig was as "this little kid who's riding a ride with all these women and whatnot." In 1986, Arquette debuted in Down and Out in Beverly Hills as Alexis, the androgynous companion and bandmate of sexually ambivalent teenager Max Whiteman (Evan Richards).

Arquette, a female impersonator, appeared frequently under the name "Eva Destruction" in the early years of her career. Arquette announced later in her career that she had begun the process leading to sex reassignment surgery. Arquette had openly that she considered her gender to be female at this point.

In the film adaptation of Last Exit to Brooklyn, Arquette played trans sex worker Georgette. The bulk of Arquette's film work was done in low-budget or independent films. Arquette appeared in more than 40 films, including I Think I Do, Children of the Corn V: Fields of Terror, and Sometimes They Come Back... Again. Arquette appeared in Jumpin' at the Boneyard as a teenage boy seeking revenge for a horrific childhood in Jack Be Nimble's New Zealand-shot horror film as well as a murderous drag queen in the low budget comedy Killer Drag Queens on Dope.

Arquette appeared in Pulp Fiction, Threesome, and Bride of Chucky, as a Boy George fanatic, George Stitzer of Boy George, in the Adam Sandler-Drew Barrymore film The Wedding Singer, singing "Do You Really Want to Hurt Me" over and over. Georgina, a Boy George impersonator, appeared in another Sandler–Barrymore film, Blended, as a reference to her role. In two episodes of Xena: Warrior Princess, Arquette returned to New Zealand to play Roman emperor Caligula. In the same year, an Arquette guest appeared in the Friends episode "The One with Chandler's Father," in which she directly communicated with her sister-in-law, Courteney Cox. She appeared in Son of the Beach for the second time in the same year.

Arquette was one of the celebrity houseguests on the 6th season of The Surreal Life in September 2005. On January 31, 2007, Arquette appeared as a featured celebrity client and guest judge on Bravo's first episode of Top Design's reality show Top Design. Arquette also appeared in Robbie Williams' "She's Madonna" music video.

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