Mary-Louise Parker

Mary-Louise Parker (born August 2, 1967) is an American television and movie actress.
Early life
Parker was born in 1967 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.Mary-Louise Parker Biography (1964-). Film Reference.com.Today's Profile. 2006 Biography from Current Biography. Parker studied drama at the North Carolina School of the Arts. Her first job in television was a small part on the soap opera Ryan's Hope in 1975. In the late 1980s, she moved to New York, where she got a job measuring feet at ECCO (a shoe shop). After a few small roles, she had her first part in a Broadway play in 1990. The play was called Prelude to a Kiss and she played the main character called Rita. She won the Clarence Derwent Award for this play and was nominated for a Tony Award. 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. After that, she acted in 1991's Grand Canyon, which also starred Mary McDonnell, Danny Glover, Alfre Woodard and Kevin Kline. Parker's next film was Fried Green Tomatoes, with Jessica Tandy, Mary Stuart Masterson, Kathy Bates and Cicely Tyson.

Movies
1990: Longtime Companion as Lisa
1991: Grand Canyon as Dee
1991: Fried Green Tomatoes as Ruth Jamison
1993: Mr. Wonderful as Rita
1994: The Client as Dianne Sway
1994: Bullets Over Broadway as Ellen
1995: Boys on the Side
1996: The Portrait of a Lady as Henrietta Stackpole
1998: Goodbye Lover as Peggy Blane
1999: Let the Devil Wear Black as Julia Hirsch
2002: Red Dragon as Molly Graham
2004: Saved! as Lillian
2005: Romance & Cigarettes as Constance
2007: The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford as Zee James
2008: The Spiderwick Chronicles as Helen Grace
2009: Solitary Man as Jordan

Television
1975: Ryan's Hope
2001–2006: The West Wing as Amy Gardner (23 episodes)
2003: Angels in America as Harper Pitt (six episodes)
2005–2009: Weeds as Nancy Botwin (61 episodes)

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Category:1964 births
Category:Living people
Category:American movie actors
Category:American television actors
Category:Actors from South Carolina