the Return Rosanna!

SHE WAS THE ‘IT GIRL’ OF THE ’80S, SHUNNED BY INDUSTRY TITANS IN THE ’90S. NOW SHE’S MAKING A SPLASH WITH CURRENT ‘IT GIRL’ CHARLI XCX: ‘I’M READY’

- GILLIAN TELLING

Rosanna Arquette is known for a lot of things: for being the oldest sibling in the famous Arquette family of actors, for roles in pop culture touchstones like 1985’s Desperately Seeking Susan and 1994’s Pulp Fiction, and for that famous Toto song “Rosanna.” The last one? She says it wasn’t actually about her. “People come up to me about that all the time,” she says with a laugh, noting it was written by another band member when she was dating founding member Steve Porcaro in the early ’80s, and he borrowed her name for the title. “I was just around them all the time. They were wonderful musicians,” she says. But the Peter Gabriel song “In Your Eyes”? “That was about me,” she admits. (The two dated in the late ’80s.) “I love musicians. Most of my friends are musicians. There’s something about the power of music. It’s really healing.”

Talent Runs Deep Rosanna says her daughter Zoë Bleu (left, in 2025) "is the coolest." Below: the Arquette siblings (in 2014, from left), David, Rosanna, Alexis, Richmond and Patricia.