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Alexis Arquette (born on July 28, 1969 in Los Angeles, California) is a transgendered American actress, musician, L.A. area underground cartoonist, and drag performer who is part of a family of actors including siblings Patricia, David, Richmond, and Rosanna Arquette, her father Lewis Arquette and her grandfather Cliff Arquette. She is the sister-in-law of actress Courteney Cox from the former TV show Friends.

Arquette has spent the majority of her career in the public eye identifying as a male. When appearing as a woman it was primarily as a drag performer and frequently under the name "Eva Destruction." It is only later in her career that she made public her wish to transition and her intention to complete sex reassignment surgery, and that she has begun the process. To this end, Arquette has publicly declared that she considers her gender identity to be female. Under U.S. law, transgender individuals are generally permitted to determine their own gender identity, regardless of their birth sex. Weiss, Jillian T. "The Gender Caste System:Identity, Privacy, and Heteronormativity," 10 Law & Sexuality 123 (2001) (Tulane Law School) More information can be found at the article transgender.

Lesser known than Patricia, David, and Rosanna, the majority of her film work has been limited to low-budget or independent films. These have included her critically acclaimed debut performance as male-to-female transsexual Georgette in Last Exit to Brooklyn. She also appeared in I Think I Do, Children of the Corn V, and Killer Drag Queens on Dope, among 40 other independent pictures.

Arquette has appeared in supporting roles in mainstream films, including Pulp Fiction, Threesome, Bride of Chucky and a memorable appearance as a Boy George fanatic in The Wedding Singer, singing "Do You Really Want to Hurt Me?" over and over. Arquette has also performed in low-budget pornographic films as her "Destruction" persona.

In September 2005, VH1 announced her casting in an upcoming season of the reality show The Surreal Life. She mentioned on the show, unscripted, that she does not want people to call her either a man or a woman, but a transgendered individual—in her words, a "tranny."

Filmography

• Last Exit to Brooklyn (1989)
• Death of a Schoolboy (1990)
• Miracle Beach (1992)
• Jumpin' at the Boneyard (1992)
• Terminal Bliss (1992)
• Of Mice and Men (1992)
• The Killing Box (1993)
• Grief (1993)
• Jack Be Nimble (1993)
• Frank and Jesse (1994)
• Threesome (1994)
• Pulp Fiction (1994)
• Don't Do It (1994)
• Paradise Framed (1995)
• Wigstock: The Movie (1995) (documentary)
• Frisk (1995)
• White Man's Burden (1995)
• Kiss & Tell (1996)
• Sometimes They Come Back... Again (1996)
• Things I Never Told You (1996)
• Never Met Picasso (1996)
• Scream, Teen, Scream (1996) (short subject)
• Inside Out (1997) (short subject)
• I Think I Do (1997)
• Goodbye America (1997)
• Close To (1997) (short subject)
• Love Kills (1998)
• Fool's Gold (1998)
• The Wedding Singer (1998)
• Cleopatra's Second Husband (1998)
• Children of the Corn V: Fields of Terror (1998)
• Bride of Chucky (1998)
• Tomorrow by Midnight (1999)
• Out in Fifty (1999)
• She's All That (1999)
• Clubland (1999)
• Citizens of Perpetual Indulgence (2000)
• Piccadilly Pickups (2000)
• The Price of Air (2000)
• Boys Life 3 (2000)
• The Woman Every Man Wants (2001)
• Audit (2001) (short subject)
• Digital Sex (2001) (documentary)
• The Trip (2002)
• Spun (2002)
• Killer Drag Queens On Dope (2003)
• The Movie Hero (2003)
• Wasabi Tuna (2003)
• Lords of Dogtown (2005)
• Hubert Selby Jr: It'll Be Better Tomorrow (2005) (documentary)

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