A Field Guide to Patricia Arquette

Chicago, IL native Patricia Arquette celebrated her 51st birthday yesterday, reminding us all of the nearly three decades worth of amazing nude scenes she's given us. Let's take a look back at the best nude scenes that the middle child of the Arquette family has done over the years in our latest Field Guide!

Patricia took a cue from big sis Rosanna, who loved going nude on camera, when she made her nude debut at the ripe young age of 20 in the drama Time Out. Though it's dimly lit, we get a nearly two minute scene where Patricia chats with a dude in bed, topless the entire time...

Three years later, Patricia would do another topless scene, this time as a free spirited young woman in Wildflower, though again it's difficult to make anything out thanks to the poor lighting and distance...

1993's True Romance rocketed Patricia to superstardom as Alabama, the Juliet to Romeo Christian Slater's Clarence, giving damaged souls everywhere a new pair of star-crossed lovers to fawn over. 12 minutes into this Quentin Tarantino-scripted flick, we get a nice look at Patricia's pair as she and Slater get down to business...

While she didn't go nude in David O. Russell's twisted 1996 comedy Flirting with Disaster, she showed plenty of cleavage in her sexy nightie and established a solid working relationship with her co-star Ben Stiller, who would give Arquette another great role later in her career...

The following year, Patricia boarded David Lynch's latest mind-bender, Lost Highway, playing sexpot Renee Madison. The actress goes nude five times over the course of the film starting at the twelve minute mark. It's her striptease at gunpoint, however, at the ninety minute mark that stands as Patricia's best, most well-lit nude scene of her entire career...

Nineteen minutes later, she and co-star Balthazar Getty get busy outside, her fantastic fun bags illuminated by car headlights...

Though she played another femme fatale in 1998's Goodbye Lover, she sadly didn't doff her duds in this flick. She did show off plenty of her signature hellzapoppin' cleavage, however...

2001's Human Nature—from Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind writer Charlie Kaufman and director Michel Gondry—is a super bizarre movie, one that's right at home in Patricia's eclectic filmography. Patricia opens the film by appearing fully nude, albeit with lots of fake hair added to her body. It's a pretty wild movie, literally...

Patricia turned up a few years later on HBO's Boardwalk Empire, though she managed to keep clothed over the course of her time on the series. You'd better believe she was willing to show off her cleavage, though, which looked as delectable as ever...

Getting back to Ben Stiller, Patricia landed an enormously high profile role in the director's miniseries Escape at Dannemora, playing a real life prison guard who conspired with two convicts to stage a daring escape. 14 minutes into the debut episode, she lubes herself up with some spit to get banged from behind by Paul Dano, showing off her amazing ass in the process...

With an Oscar already in hand, and plenty of Mr. Skin Anatomy Awards to boot, there's no denying that whatever Patricia does next has not only the prospect of being great, but also a better than average shot at containing another nude scene from this all-time beauty!

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