RIP Alexis Arquette

A transgender pioneer. Actress most notable for (other than her famous siblings) her role as a Boy George-like musician in The Wedding Singer:

Actress Alexis Arquette dies at 47 - BBC News

Here's the family's statement:



Also, the answer to a pretty cool trivia question, as she (as a "he") was on the receiving end of this iconic film moment:

 

RIP to the one Arquette I hadn't heard of.

 

Zero chance you had heard of Richmond before today.

 

Point, Creosote.

Looks like he's an actor too. Guessing that has to be a bit awkward for him.

 

Alexis was an acquaintance of mine back in my tabloid days; s/he was known as the normal Arquette, and was a genuinely nice person as the outpouring of Twitter love shows.

 

The news story is strange. It seems like a clear suicide. But then it indicates family was there.

 

I get a definite euthanasia vibe.

 

An early AV Club story had comments from Richmond indicating Alexis had become their brother again before death.

 

Wow. Really?

 

If I'm reading this right.

R.I.P. Alexis Arquette, Pulp Fiction and The Wedding Singer actress

 

AIDS, reportedly.

Alexis Arquette Died from AIDS-Related Illness, Source Confirms, as Her 'Whole Family Rallied Around Her'

It's been a long time since I heard about someone dying of AIDS.

 

There were a bunch of celebrities in the early '90s who died of complications from AIDS (Arthur Ashe, Mr. Brady, Pedro from The Real World, Isaac Asimov, Freddie Mercury and Anthony Perkins to name a few), but I can't think of any off the top of my head since Eazy-E and that was in like 1995.