David Arquette

David Arquette
David Arquette poses for portrait by Mash Gallery (2020).
Basic Information
Name	David Arquette
Age	53
Date of birth	September 8, 1971
Place of birth	Bentonville, Virginia, United States of America
Nationality	American
Active	1990–present
Profession	Actor Director Producer Fashion designer Professional wrestler
Credits and Portrayal
Acting Role	Dewey Riley
Father	Lewis Arquette †
Siblings	Richmond Arquette
Appears in	Scream Scream 2 Scream 3 Scream 4 Scream (2022) Scream VI (photos) Scream 7

David Arquette is an actor, former professional wrestler, fashion designer, director and producer. He portrayed the deuteragonist role of Dewey Riley in the first five Scream films (1996-2022), and set to reappear in Scream 7 (2026).

Trivia

• David Arquette was married to co-star Courteney Cox. They met on the set of Scream, began dating during production of Scream 2 and had arrived back from their honeymoon just in time for filming of Scream 3. They separated in 2010 shortly after filming of Scream 4 had ended.
• He and Courteney made their own motion film production company named Coquette Productions.
• David Arquette's character Dewey is specified as being 25 years old, approximately 7 years older than most other lead characters who are in high school. However, Arquette is roughly the same age as most of his costars and is actually slightly younger than Skeet Ulrich, Matthew Lillard and Jamie Kennedy, who all portray themselves as high school students.
• David also reprised his role as Dewey in Creed's "What If" music video, timed to coincide with the release of Scream 3.
• David is a certified Bob Ross painting technique instructor.
  • In between filming of Scream (2022), he taught painting to several crew members.
• In 2004 he and his ex-wife Courteney Cox, now have a real-life daughter named Coco Arquette.
• In 2021, David acquired the rights to Bozo the Clown and plans to revive the character.
• David is the third legacy cast member of the Scream franchise and the third of the Original Trio and the most recent, who is set to reprise his role as Dewey in Scream 7, despite his character's death. He is then preceded by both Scott Foley (Roman) and Matthew Lillard (Stu), his co-stars who portrayed the Ghostface killers, with Foley in Scream 3 and Lillard in Scream (1996).

David and Wes Craven on the set of Scream 4.

Gallery

David Arquette has a Photo Gallery.

External links

• David Arquette at the Internet Movie Database
• David Arquette at Allmovie
• David Arquette at People.com
• David Arquette at Wikipedia