Mary-Louise Parker

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Age: 48, born 2 August 1964

Born and residing in: United States

Height: 5' 8"

Ethnicity: White / Caucasian

Relationship Status: Single

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About: Mary-Louise Parker (born August 2, 1964) is an American actress, best known for her current lead role on Showtime's television series Weeds portraying Nancy Botwin, for which she has received several nominations and the Golden Globe Award for Best Actress in 2006. Parker has appeared in films and series such as Red, Fried Green Tomatoes, Boys on the Side, Proof, The West Wing, Angels in America, for which she received a Golden Globe and an Emmy Award for Best Supporting Actress. Mary-Louise Parker (born August 2, 1964) is an American actress, best known for her current lead role on Showtime's television series Weeds portraying Nancy Botwin, for which she has received several nominations and the Golden Globe Award for Best Actress in 2006. Parker has appeared in films and series such as Red, Fried Green Tomatoes, Boys on the Side, Proof, The West Wing, Angels in America, for which she received a Golden Globe and an Emmy Award for Best Supporting Actress.

Parker majored in drama at the North Carolina School of the Arts. She then got her start in a bit part on the soap opera Ryan's Hope. In the late 1980s, Parker moved to New York and made her Broadway debut in a 1990 production of Craig Lucas' Prelude to a Kiss, playing the lead role of Rita. Parker maintained a strong theater presence in the early 1990s and built her reputation on the big screen, appearing in 1991's Grand Canyon; Fried Green Tomatoes; The Client (1994); Bullets Over Broadway (1994); Boys on the Side (1995); Reckless (1995); Portrait of a Lady (1996); and The Maker (1997).

Parker's theater career continued when she appeared in Paula Vogel's 1997 critical smash How I Learned To Drive. In the late 1990s, she appeared in several independent films including Let the Devil Wear Black and The Five Senses.

n 2001, Parker appeared alongside Larry Bryggman in David Auburn's Proof on Broadway, for which she won a Tony Award. She appeared in a guest role on the NBC drama, The West Wing, as women's rights activist Amelia "Amy" Gardner, which soon became a recurring role as a love interest for Deputy Chief of Staff Joshua Lyman. For this role, Parker was nominated for both an Emmy Award and a Screen Actors Guild Award. On December 7, 2003, HBO aired an epic six-and-a-half hour adaptation of Tony Kushner's acclaimed Broadway play Angels in America, directed by Mike Nichols. The miniseries, about a group of lost souls in New York during the AIDS epidemic of the 1980s, was hailed with international critical acclaim. Parker played Harper Pitt, the Mormon Valium-addicted wife of a closeted lawyer, appearing full frontally nude. For her performance, Parker received Golden Globe and Emmy awards for Best Supporting Actress in a Miniseries.

In 2005, Parker took on the lead role in the television series Weeds, a Showtime comedy-drama. Parker's character, Nancy Botwin, is a suburban mother who, following the death of her husband, decides to sell cannabis to make money, while also attempting to maintain her community reputation. Parker received the 2006 Golden Globe Award for Best Performance by an Actress in a Television Series - Musical or Comedy, given by the Hollywood Foreign Press Association, for her lead role in Weeds.

Parker portrayed Sarah opposite Bruce Willis in the film Red, an adaptation of the comic book mini-series of the same name. The film was released on October 15, 2010. ... (more)