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Alexis Arquette
American actress (1969-2016) / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Alexis Arquette (July 28, 1969 – September 11, 2016) was an American actress, cabaret performer, underground cartoonist, and activist. She was born in Los Angeles. She was a member of the Arquette family. Her sisters were Patricia and Rosanna Arquette and her brother was David Arquette.
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At 19, Arquette played trans sex worker Georgette in the screen adaptation of Last Exit to Brooklyn.[1] She starred in more than 40 movies, including I Think I Do, Children of the Corn V: Fields of Terror, and Sometimes They Come Back... Again. Arquette also starred alongside Tim Roth in Jumpin' at the Boneyard.[2][3]
In 2004, Arquette expressed an interest in undergoing formal male-to-female transitioning by the use of hormone treatments and, ultimately, sex reassignment surgery, which she realized in 2006, in her late 30s.[4]
Arquette was diagnosed with HIV in 1987.[5] She died from cardiac arrest complicated by HIV in Los Angeles, aged 47.[6][7]