LOS ANGELES (AP) — Alexis Arquette, the transgender character actress and sibling of actors David, Rosanna, Richmond and Patricia Arquette, died early Sunday morning in Los Angeles. She was 47 and surrounded by family who serenaded her with David Bowie’s “Starman,” her siblings said in a statement Sunday. No cause of death was given.
Alexis was born Robert Arquette in Los Angeles in 1969, and she was a performer from a young age, appearing in a music video for The Tubes’ “She’s a Beauty” at age 12 and the occasional other project.
A versatile performer, Arquette got her big break in the 1989 adaptation of “Last Exit to Brooklyn,” where she played the trans sex worker Georgette.
She also had bit roles in films like “Pulp Fiction,” ‘’Bride of Chucky” and as a Boy George impersonator, first in the Adam Sandler comedy “The Wedding Singer” and again in “Blended.”
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