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Actress and cabaret performer Alexis Arquette was born into a talented family that includes comedian father Cliff Arquette and fellow actor siblings Rosanna, Patricia and David.

She made her first major screen appearance as a trans sex worker in Uli Edel’s 1989 film Last Exit to Brooklyn and later got a bit part in Quentin Tarantino’s Pulp Fiction and played a Boy George impersonator in rom-com The Wedding Singer.

An outspoken activist for transgender rights, Arquette transitioned herself in the mid-noughties – a process captured in the acclaimed 2007 documentary Alexis Arquette: She’s My Brother.