1. Molly Parker was born on June 30,1972 and is a Canadian actress, writer, and director.
38 Facts About Molly Parker
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Molly Parker garnered critical attention for her portrayal of a necrophiliac medical student in the controversial drama Kissed.
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Molly Parker subsequently starred in the television thriller Intensity before landing her first major American film role in the drama Waking the Dead.
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Molly Parker gained further notice for her role as a Las Vegas escort in the drama The Center of the World, for which she was nominated for the Independent Spirit Award for Best Female Lead.
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Molly Parker subsequently appeared in the post-apocalyptic thriller The Road, and the independent drama Trigger.
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Molly Parker was born 30 June 1972 in Maple Ridge, British Columbia, Canada, and spent her childhood on a farm in Pitt Meadows.
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Molly Parker trained in ballet from ages 3 to 17, and spent three years performing with the Royal Winnipeg Ballet Company.
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Molly Parker began acting in local productions at age 14.
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Molly Parker appeared in the television thriller film The Substitute, in a supporting role.
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Molly Parker portrayed Alice Ramsey in "The Wrath of Kali", a fourth-season episode of Highlander: The Series.
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Molly Parker played the daughter of Margarethe Cammermeyer, a lesbian military officer, in the television film Serving in Silence, opposite Glenn Close and Judy Davis.
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Molly Parker appeared in a minor role as a nurse in the Western Last of the Dogmen, as well as the Lifetime holiday television film Ebbie playing the niece of Susan Lucci's Scrooge character, in a modern retelling of Charles Dickens's A Christmas Carol.
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Molly Parker then won a Gemini Award nomination for her performance in the Canadian television film Paris or Somewhere.
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Also in 1996, Molly Parker appeared in an episode of the Canadian horror series Poltergeist: The Legacy, as well as Bruce McDonald's independent film Hard Core Logo, in which she portrayed an aspiring actress.
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In 1997, Molly Parker starred as Chyna Shepard, a kidnap victim, in the television horror-thriller film Intensity, an adaptation of the Dean Koontz novel.
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Molly Parker subsequently appeared as a pregnant woman in Michael Winterbottom's Wonderland, and in the historical drama Sunshine, playing a Hungarian Jew during World War II.
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Molly Parker co-starred with Charlotte Gainsbourg and Nastassja Kinski in the Canadian-British thriller film The Intruder, about a woman who murders her husband's lover.
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Molly Parker starred in The War Bride, which earned her a Genie Award nomination for Best Supporting Actress.
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Molly Parker gained critical notice for the film, earning an Independent Spirit Award nomination for Best Female Lead.
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In 2002, Molly Parker appeared opposite Keira Knightley in the drama film Pure, portraying a mother suffering from heroin addiction.
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Also in 2002, Molly Parker married her first husband, writer and director Matthew Bissonette, and was one of the executive producers of his debut feature film Looking for Leonard.
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Molly Parker starred opposite Christian Slater in the drama The Good Shepherd.
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Molly Parker portrayed the role for the series' three seasons, which saw a Screen Actors Guild Award nomination for Best Ensemble in 2007.
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In October 2006, during the airing of Deadwoods final season, Molly Parker gave birth to her first child, a son, William, in Los Angeles.
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Molly Parker appeared in a supporting part in the period drama Hollywoodland, and the comedic drama Who Loves the Sun, the latter of which was directed by Parker's then-husband, Matthew Bissonnette.
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In 2008, Molly Parker starred in the CBS show Swingtown, a 1970s-set relationship drama, which aired for one season.
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In 2009, Molly Parker separated from her husband, Bissonnette and later divorced.
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In 2010, Molly Parker starred in the Canadian police procedural Shattered, which aired for a single season, and had a lead role in the independent drama Trigger, opposite Tracy Wright, in her final film appearance before her death.
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Molly Parker followed this with more television work, starring as Abby McDeere on the thriller series The Firm, an adaptation of the John Grisham 1991 novel and its 1993 film adaptation.
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In early 2015, Molly Parker appeared in a Toronto stage production of the Simon Stephens play Harper Regan.
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Molly Parker was cast alongside Jamie Dornan, Sarah Gadon, and Aaron Paul in the supernatural thriller The 9th Life of Louis Drax, directed by Alexandre Aja.
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Also in 2016, Molly Parker co-starred in the Amazon Studios legal series Goliath, as well as Bruce McDonald's independent drama film Weirdos, for which she won the Vancouver Film Critics Circle Award for Best Supporting Actress and the Canadian Screen Award for Best Supporting Actress.
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Molly Parker had a supporting role as a therapist in Ewan McGregor's American Pastoral, based on the 1997 Philip Roth novel of the same name.
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In October 2016, Molly Parker divorced her husband, Bissonnete, after a protracted seven-year-separation.
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In 2017, Molly Parker appeared in three productions for Netflix: First, she starred opposite Nikolaj Coster-Waldau and Gary Cole in the crime film Small Crimes, playing a nurse who becomes romantically involved with a former police officer.
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Molly Parker starred in the horror film 1922, a film adaptation of the Stephen King novella of the same name, playing the wife of a farmer in 1920s Nebraska; this was followed with a lead role in Errol Morris's miniseries Wormwood, based on the life of scientist Frank Olson.
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Molly Parker co-starred in Josephine Decker's 2018 feature film Madeline's Madeline.
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Molly Parker reprised her role of Alma Garret for the HBO television film Deadwood: The Movie, released in May 2019.