Alexis Arquette
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Arquette at VH1's Daisy of Love premiere party at My House, Hollywood, California, in April 2009
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| Born |
Robert Arquette July 28, 1969 Los Angeles, California, U.S. |
| Died | September 11, 2016 (aged 47) Beverly Hills, California, U.S. |
| Cause of death | Aortic dissection caused by HIV |
| Resting place | Westwood Village Memorial Park Cemetery, California, U.S. |
| Other names | Eva Destruction |
| Occupation | Actress, musician, cabaret singer, cartoonist |
| Years active | 1982–2015 |
| Parent(s) |
Lewis Arquette (father) Brenda Olivia Nowak (mother) |
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Alexis Arquette (born Robert Arquette; July 28, 1969 – September 11, 2016) was an American actress, cabaret performer, underground cartoonist, and activist. She was well known for her gender transitioning, and for supporting other people making similar transitions.
Arquette was born in Los Angeles, California, the fourth of five children of Brenda Olivia "Mardi" (née Nowak), an actress, poet, theater operator, activist, acting teacher, and therapist, and Lewis Arquette, an actor and director. Mardi Nowak was Jewish of Russian and Polish descent. Lewis Arquette was a convert to Islam from Catholicism. Lewis's family's surname was originally "Arcouet" of partial French-Canadian ancestry; Lewis's father was comedian Cliff Arquette. Alexis Arquette was distantly related to American explorer Meriwether Lewis. Actors Rosanna, Richmond, Patricia, and David Arquette are her siblings.
In 1982, at the age of 12, Arquette's first acting gig was as "this little kid who's on a ride with all these women and whatnot" in the music video "She's a Beauty" by The Tubes. In 1986, Arquette debuted on the big screen in an uncredited role as Alexis, the androgynous friend and bandmate of sexually ambivalent teenager Max Whiteman (Evan Richards) in Down and Out in Beverly Hills.
Arquette, in the earlier years of her career, primarily performed as a female impersonator, frequently under the name "Eva Destruction". Later in her career, she made public that she had begun the process leading to sex reassignment surgery. To this end, Arquette had publicly declared that she considered her gender to be female.
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