Rosanna Arquette was born on August 10, 1959 in New York, New York.

Rosanna's siblings read like an all-star cast: Richmond Arquette, Alexis Arquette, David Arquette and Patricia Arquette.

Rosanna made her acting debut in Los Angeles at the age of 17 in a theatrical production of "Metamorphosis". She continued acting in local plays when her family relocated to Virginia. After an audience with a casting director, Rosanna began appearing on television, and she made her feature film debut in "More American Graffiti" in 1979.
Though she has subsequently been typecast as kooky but sexy women, early in her career, Rosanna demonstrated considerable dramatic ability in "The Executioner's Song" (1982), the television biopic about convicted killer Gary Gilmore which was later released theatrically.

Rosanna had her first starring role in "Baby It's You" (1983), but she didn't become a real star until her role in "Desperately Seeking Susan" (1985).

Rosanna Arquette has spent much of her subsequent career popping up in a number of diverse films, including "Pulp Fiction" (1994), which featured her in a brief but pivotal role as a junkie, "Crash" (1996), in which she all-too memorably allowed James Spader to have sex with her gaping leg wound, "Buffalo '66" (1998), which cast her as the protagonist's trampy high school dream girl, "Sugar Town" (1999), in which she played an actress and one-time sex symbol, and "The Whole Nine Yards" (2000), a comedy that cast her as the suburban neighbor of a mobster trying to make good.
 

Misspellings & aliases:
Rosana, Roseana, Rossanna, Rossanne, Rosanne, Roseanna, Arkuette, Arcuette, Arkette, Arcette, Arqette, Arquett, Arquete, Arqett, Arckuette.