Mary-Louise Parker

Mary-Louise Parker, born August 2 1964, is an American actress. After making her Broadway debut as Rita in Craig Lucas's Prelude to a Kiss in 1990 (for which she received a Tony Award nomination), Parker was a household name for roles in films such as Grand Canyon (1991), Fried Green Tomatoes (1991), The Client (1994), Bullets over Broadway (1994), A Place for Annie (1994), Boys on the Side (1995), The Portrait of a Lady (1996), and The Maker (1997). Parker received a nomination for the Tony Award for Best Actress In a Play in 2001, for her role as Catherine Llewellyn, in David Auburn's Proof. Between 2001 and 2006, she recurred in the role of Amy Gardner in the NBC television show The West Wing, for which she was nominated for the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Drama Series in 2002. She received both a Golden Globe and a Primetime Emmy Award for her performance of Harper Pitt in the acclaimed HBO miniseries Angels in America in 2003.Parker went on to enjoy large successes as Nancy Botwin, the lead character in the television series Weeds which ran from 2005 to 2012, and for which she was awarded three nominations for Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Comedy Series between 2007 and 2009 and was awarded the Golden Globe Award for Best Actress - Television Series Musical or Comedy in 2006.Her films in the past include the roles in The Spiderwick Chronicles (2008), Red (2010), R.I.P.D. (2013) and Red 2 (2012). Parker returned to Broadway in 2019 , to appear in The Sound Inside, for which she won her second Tony Award for Best Actress in a Play. Parker has been writing articles for Esquire magazine since 2007 and published Dear Mr. You in 2015. She appeared in the ABC miniseries, When We Rise, as Roma Guy. In 2018, she starred as a consultant to the political on the show Billions on Showtime.



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