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Patricia Arquette wasn't overjoyed when she found out her CBS hit show Medium was renewed for another season (its seventh). The reason: The 42-year-old actress was in Haiti, helping displaced earthquake victims. ``[Producers] called me to tell me we were just picked up and I didn't know what was happening,'' Arquette said at a fundraiser at a private home in Coral Gables. ``There were kids running around with no shoes in broken glass and broken metal. The toilets were full. There are sanitary issues. I said, `I can't even talk to you about that. I'm in a whole other world.' ''

Indeed, Arquette's bizarro glamorous Hollywood life definitely went on the back burner for 12 days earlier this month when the actress, who has starred in such movies as Flirting with Disaster, Beyond Rangoon and True Romance, traveled to the ravaged island nation. Her goal, along with the Give Love Foundation (which she founded), is helping to resettle homeless families. Earlier in the day, Arquette visited the Robert Morgan Educational Center in South Miami to check in with welding students who are building the doors and roofing trusses for quake victims' new homes. Fifty-four housing structures are set for a one-acre site in Cité Soleil, a volatile area in Port-au-Prince.

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Her dreams help to solve crime each week on the CBS series Medium, but actress Patricia Arquette’s real life reverie is to help ease the suffering the Haitian people. Teaming with the Tinseltown star, Satya Jewelry is offering a charming accessory fashioned with philanthropic intent, as 100% of the proceeds are donated to Arquette’s charity, Give Love. Believed to possess properties of healing, communication and love, turquoise was an apt addition to the Hope, Love & Healing for Haiti necklace, which is also adorned with hope and heart pendants that dangle delicately on an 18-inch silver chain.

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Star of CBS' "Medium" Discusses Female Intuition, Her Efforts to Help Haitians Rebuild -- with Shipping Containers.



(CBS) Emmy award winner Patricia Arquette knows a little something about the future -- or at least the character she plays on TV does. On the CBS drama "Medium," Arquette plays a psychic whose visions help the Phoenix police department solve crimes. Arquette's character is based on real-life psychic Allison DuBois, whom Arquette has met several times in person.

But does Arquette have any foresight like her character? "All women have some of this," Arquette said. However, she conceded that she probably doesn't have real psychic ability. She joked, "I remember having a dream once that Al Gore won the presidency."

In addition to her work as an actress, Arquette is also devoted to work in Haiti. She's pitched in to help form the GiveLove Foundation, an organization that works to create housing for Haitians with discarded shipping containers, among other efforts. For more with Arquette and her efforts for displaced Haitians, click on the video below.

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In the three months since a 7.0 earthquake struck Haiti, activists across the globe have been scrambling to bring relief to the impoverished Caribbean country. Thousands of Haitians died in the quake and subsequent aftershocks, while estimates report 2 to 3 million people still in need of basic food and shelter. Numerous international aid groups have poured resources into Haiti, but the local situation continues to surpass the current level of support from abroad.

Patricia Arquette means to change that. Starting with a single, innovative mission in one Haitian community, she launched the Give Love Foundation in late March. Its mission: to "rebuild communities, homes & livelihood for displaced earthquake survivors.”

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Actress Patricia Arquette arrives at the 16th Annual Screen Actors Guild Awards held at the Shrine Auditorium on January 23, 2010 in Los Angeles, California. (January 22, 2010 - Photo by Frazer Harrison/Getty Images North America)



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A Clip from the Sesame Street Episode (or segment) Patricia Arquette starred in (via HULU.com). She and this muppet character here are talking about how big the word "Metamorphosis" is and how much fun it is to say it. It's pretty damn cute and hillarious when Patricia ends up getting changed into a Pinguin.



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Patricia Arquette is among the nominees for the 16th annual Screen Actors Guild awards! She has been nominated for Best Actress in a Drama Series along with six other actresses (a vote which resulted in a tie, apparently). No Nomination for the entire cast though :(. Check out the list behind the cut for other nominess of the SAG Awards.

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