Rosanna Arquette

Born: 10th August 1959
Where: New York

Growing up in a family of actors (father Lewis, siblings Patricia, Alexis and David), Rosanna began at a young age.

She was living with her family in an artists' commune in Virginia, when, at 15, she decided to hitchhike cross-country to San Francisco.

When she arrived in Hollywood, she made her stage debut in Metamorphosis.

Rosanna worked regularly in TV, appearing in several TV films, notably The Executioner's Song, for which she was nominated for an Emmy.

A few years later, she turned in a memorable performance in Desperately Seeking Susan, as a bored suburban housewife who adopts the freewheeling lifestyle of a woman (Madonna) whom she read about in the personal ads.

She had leads in small independent films and foreign features like The Big Blue, as well as starring roles in films barely released or banished straight to video, such as The Linguini Incident.

In the late Eighties she decided to live and work in Europe for six years, returning in 1993, with an unlikely role opposite action star Jean-Claude Van Damme in Nowhere to Run. A year later, she was one of the many stars in Quentin Tarantino's acclaimed Pulp Fiction.