Mary-Louise Parker was born on August 2,1964 and is an American actress.
34 Facts About Mary-Louise Parker
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Mary-Louise Parker received both a Golden Globe and a Primetime Emmy Award for her portrayal of Harper Pitt in the acclaimed HBO television miniseries Angels in America in 2003.
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Mary-Louise Parker returned to Broadway in 2019 to star in The Sound Inside, for which she won her second Tony Award for Best Actress in a Play.
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Since 2007, Mary-Louise Parker has contributed articles to Esquire magazine and published her memoir, Dear Mr You, in 2015.
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Mary-Louise Parker was born in Columbia, South Carolina, the youngest of four children, to Caroline Louise and John Morgan Mary-Louise Parker, a judge who served in the US Army.
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Mary-Louise Parker's ancestry includes Swedish, English, Scottish, Irish, German, and Dutch.
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Mary-Louise Parker majored in drama at the University of North Carolina School of the Arts and graduated in 1986.
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Mary-Louise Parker got her start in acting with a role on the soap opera Ryan's Hope.
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Mary-Louise Parker moved with the production when it transferred from its origin off-Broadway.
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Mary-Louise Parker won the Clarence Derwent Award for her performance and was nominated for a Tony Award.
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Mary-Louise Parker starred with Kevin Kline in Grand Canyon ; with Kathy Bates, Mary Stuart Masterson, and Jessica Tandy in Fried Green Tomatoes ; with Susan Sarandon and Tommy Lee Jones in The Client ; with John Cusack in Bullets over Broadway ; and with Drew Barrymore and Whoopi Goldberg in Boys on the Side, as a woman with AIDS.
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Mary-Louise Parker received the 1997 Lucille Lortel Award, Outstanding Actress, and 1997 Obie Award, Performance for her performance.
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Mary-Louise Parker starred alongside Sidney Poitier in the 1999 movie The Simple Life of Noah Dearborn.
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From 2000 to 2001, Mary-Louise Parker starred in the play Proof in off-Broadway and Broadway productions, winning the Tony Award for Best Actress in a Play for the latter.
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Mary-Louise Parker played Harper Pitt, the Mormon, Valium-addicted wife of a closeted lawyer.
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In November 2005, Mary-Louise Parker was the subject of a career exhibition at Boston University, where memorabilia from her career were donated to the university's library.
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Mary-Louise Parker dedicated the award to the late John Spencer, known for his work as Leo McGarry on The West Wing.
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In March 2007, Mary-Louise Parker played the lead role in the television film The Robber Bride.
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Mary-Louise Parker then portrayed Zerelda Mimms in the Andrew Dominik film The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford, which opened in cinemas in September 2007.
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Mary-Louise Parker appeared alongside Brad Pitt, Casey Affleck, Sam Rockwell, and Garret Dillahunt.
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Mary-Louise Parker appeared in 2008's The Spiderwick Chronicles and in off-Broadway's Playwrights Horizons production in the New York premiere of Dead Man's Cell Phone, a new play by Sarah Ruhl, alongside Drama Desk Award winner Kathleen Chalfant.
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Mary-Louise Parker filmed the Donna Vermeer film Les Passages alongside Julie Delpy.
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Mary-Louise Parker took the lead role in the Roundabout Theatre Broadway revival of the play Hedda Gabler, running from January through March 29,2009.
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Mary-Louise Parker starred opposite Bruce Willis in the film Red, an adaptation of the comic book miniseries of the same name.
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In 2011, Mary-Louise Parker became the host for the tenth season of the PBS documentary series Independent Lens.
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Mary-Louise Parker appeared in the Broadway Manhattan Theatre Club production of the play The Snow Geese by Sharr White at the Samuel J Friedman Theatre from October 24 through December 15,2013.
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Mary-Louise Parker starred in the play by Simon Stephens, Heisenberg, produced off-Broadway by the Manhattan Theatre Club.
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Mary-Louise Parker starred on Broadway in the Adam Rapp play The Sound Inside at Studio 54 starting on September 14,2019, in previews, officially on October 17.
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Mary-Louise Parker performed in the world premiere of the play in June to July 2018 at the Williamstown Theatre Festival.
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Mary-Louise Parker appeared in the Broadway revival by the Manhattan Theatre Club of How I Learned to Drive, which was supposed to open at the Samuel J Friedman Theatre on March 27,2020, in previews.
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From 1996 to November 2003, Mary-Louise Parker dated actor Billy Crudup.
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In December 2006, Mary-Louise Parker began dating actor Jeffrey Dean Morgan, whom she had met on the set of Weeds.
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In September 2007, Mary-Louise Parker adopted a baby girl, Caroline Aberash Mary-Louise Parker, from Ethiopia.
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In 2013, Mary-Louise Parker was honored for her work with Hope North, an organization that works in the educating and healing of young victims in Uganda's civil war.