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Mary-Louise Parker born August 2, is an American television and movie actress.

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Sign In Sign In. New Customer? Create account. She is of mostly Swedish, English, and Scottish descent. Her father's occupation took the family both around the country and abroad while growing up. Parker showed potential in her teens and majored in acting in her college years, graduating from the North Carolina School of the Arts. Beginning her acting career with a part on the daytime soap Ryan's Hope , Mary decided to test the waters in New York, and after work on the off-Broadway stage in the late s, made her Broadway debut with "Prelude to a Kiss" in , where she won the Theatre World Award, the Clarence Derwent Award and a Tony nomination. Films and TV quickly followed and she quickly gained attention. She provided both poignant and amusing as the token femme friend to a group of gay men in the AIDS drama Longtime Companion , but really caught fire with her feisty, standout performance in Fried Green Tomatoes , holding her own against such female powerhouses as Jessica Tandy , Kathy Bates and Mary Stuart Masterson. Preferring quality over quantity, she perfected her craft with offbeat roles in independent features and did not abandon her theater roots. She copped a slew of acting prizes for her stage work in "How I Learned to Drive" and, most notably, "Proof" in , wherein she won nearly every award there is to attain, including the prestigious Tony. Her marquee name still does not command what it should, but a picture or production with Mary-Louise Parker in it usually guarantees a strong critical reception. Unmarried, she did enter into a longtime companionship with actor Billy Crudup after the twosome appeared opposite each other in the play, "Bus Stop". They went their separate ways in , amid major controversy she was pregnant at the time. Mary Louise continues to divide her time equally and skillfully on TV, film and the stage.

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Mary-Louise Parker born August 2, [1] is an American actress. Among stage and independent film appearances thereafter, Parker received the Tony Award for Best Actress in a Play for her portrayal of Catherine Llewellyn in David Auburn 's Proof , among other accolades. Parker went on to enjoy large success as Nancy Botwin , the lead character in the television series Weeds , which ran from to and for which she received three nominations for the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Comedy Series between and and received the Golden Globe Award for Best Actress — Television Series Musical or Comedy in In , she reprised the role of Li'l Bit, which she had originated off-Broadway in , in How I Learned to Drive on Broadway, a performance which earned Parker her fifth Tony nomination. Since , Parker has contributed articles to Esquire magazine and published her memoir, Dear Mr. You , in

Mary-Louise Parker born August 2, is an American television and movie actress. Parker was born in in Fort Jackson , South Carolina. Her mother was Swedish and her father was a judge and served in the United States Army. They lived in Thailand where she attended the International School Bangkok. Her first job in television was a small part on the soap opera Ryan's Hope in After a few small roles, she had her first part in a Broadway play in The play was called Prelude to a Kiss and she played the main character called Rita. Parker dated her co-star Timothy Hutton for a short time. That same year, Parker was noticed by critics when she appeared in a movie called Longtime Companion. It was one of the first movies about AIDS.

Mary louise parker wiki

Sign In Sign In. New Customer? Create account. Mini Bio. She is of mostly Swedish, English, and Scottish descent. Her father's occupation took the family both around the country and abroad while growing up.

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Retrieved April 25, Sarah Ross. The Robber Bride. LibraryThing author ID. Friedman Theatre. Funny Women of Television We salute the brilliant women behind all those unforgettable laughs on the small screen. Golden ID. Marcos de Niza High School. Parker played Harper Pitt, the Mormon , Valium -addicted wife of a closeted lawyer. The Reklaws ft. Contents move to sidebar hide. In other projects. Parker practices transcendental meditation.

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