Patricia Arquette has won awards for her performances in ‘Escape at Dannemora,’ ‘Boyhood’ and ‘Medium.’ She currently stars in ‘The Act’ on Hulu, based on the real-life story of Dee Dee Blanchard, a woman who lied to her daughter, Gypsy Rose, and everyone they knew — including doctors — that Gypsy Rose was seriously ill. Dee Dee Blanchard was posthumously diagnosed with Munchausen syndrome by proxy after she was murdered in 2015. Arquette talks about playing a series of complex roles in the past few years, and also tells Terry Gross about growing up on a commune and her father’s conversion to Islam.

Writer and documentary filmmaker Erin Lee Carr, daughter of the late ‘New York Times’ columnist David Carr, talks about grief, sobriety, and having her father as a mentor. Carr’s new memoir is ‘All That You Leave Behind.‘