39 Facts About Sarah Jessica Parker

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Sarah Jessica Parker was born on March 25,1965 and is an American actress and television producer.

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Sarah Jessica Parker is the recipient of numerous accolades, including six Golden Globe Awards and two Primetime Emmy Awards.

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Sarah Jessica Parker made her first major film appearances in the 1984 dramas Footloose and Firstborn.

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Sarah Jessica Parker starred as Frances Dufresne in the HBO series Divorce, for which she was nominated for a Golden Globe Award.

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Sarah Jessica Parker was born in Nelsonville, Ohio, the daughter of Barbara Parker, a nursery-school operator and teacher, and Stephen Parker, an entrepreneur and journalist.

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Sarah Jessica Parker was one of a total of eight children from her parents' marriage and her mother's second marriage; her full siblings include actors Timothy Britten Parker and Pippin Parker.

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Sarah Jessica Parker has identified culturally with her father's faith, Judaism, although she has had no religious training.

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Sarah Jessica Parker often took them to free public institutions like the ballet and the theater in Cincinnati, so that they lived "full, rich lives," emulating the New York artistic scene.

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Sarah Jessica Parker's family moved to Cincinnati and then to Dobbs Ferry, New York, near New York City, so that she could get specialized training.

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The family later moved to Englewood, New Jersey, where Sarah Jessica Parker attended Dwight Morrow High School.

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Sarah Jessica Parker attended the School of American Ballet in New York City, the New York Professional Children's School, the School for Creative and Performing Arts in Cincinnati, and Hollywood High School in Los Angeles.

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In 1982, Sarah Jessica Parker obtained the lead role of the CBS sitcom Square Pegs, which lasted just one season.

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In 1986, Sarah Jessica Parker appeared in Flight of the Navigator, a Disney science fiction film.

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Story, Sarah Jessica Parker took on the role of a ditzy aspiring spokesmodel meeting a television meteorologist; both the film and her performance garnered positive reviews.

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Sarah Jessica Parker headlined the romantic comedy Miami Rhapsody, playing a woman who has some misgivings about her fiancee and starred in the off-Broadway play Sylvia, alongside future husband Matthew Broderick.

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The romantic comedy The First Wives Club saw Sarah Jessica Parker take on the role of a dim-witted but manipulative fiancee, and reunite with Hocus Pocus collaborator Bette Midler.

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In 1997, Sarah Jessica Parker appeared as a washed-up former child actress in the little seen comedy 'Til There Was You.

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Sarah Jessica Parker's role was that of Carrie Bradshaw, the narrator and main protagonist, with each episode structured around her train of thought while writing her weekly column "Sex and the City" for the fictitious paper, the New York Star.

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Sarah Jessica Parker's character was widely popular during the airing of the series and was later recognized as one of the greatest female characters in American television.

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In late 2005, Sarah Jessica Parker reunited with First Wives Club co-star Diane Keaton for her first film in years, the seasonal family dramedy The Family Stone, in which she played an uptight, contemporary New York City career woman.

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The film Smart People premiered at the Sundance Film Festival and saw Sarah Jessica Parker portray a sympathetic doctor, opposite Dennis Quaid and Elliot Page.

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Sarah Jessica Parker guest-starred on season 4 of FOX musical comedy series Glee as Isabelle Wright, a Vogue executive who takes Kurt Hummel under her wing after he graduates and moves to New York.

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In 2013, Sarah Jessica Parker provided her voice for one of the characters of the animated film Escape from Planet Earth, and played Gloria Steinem in deleted scenes of the biographical drama Lovelace.

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In 2018, Sarah Jessica Parker headlined and produced the independent drama Here and Now, playing a New York City singer who gets a life-changing medical diagnosis.

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In 2000, Sarah Jessica Parker hosted the MTV Movie Awards, appearing in fourteen different outfits during the show.

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Sarah Jessica Parker has become the face of many of the world's biggest fashion brands through her work in a variety of advertising campaigns.

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However, the ad campaigns were a success, and Sarah Jessica Parker had given the Gap a new, fresh face that appeared in many commercials, online and print ads, and other promotions.

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Sarah Jessica Parker then stated that "While Gap will always seek partnerships with celebrities, musicians and rising stars, we don't have any future plans to sign a single person to a multi-season deal like the unique and special relationship we enjoyed with Sarah Jessica".

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In July 2007, following the success of Lovely, Sarah Jessica Parker released her second fragrance, Covet.

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In 2007, Sarah Jessica Parker was a guest on Project Runway for the second challenge.

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In February 2009, as part of the Lovely collection, Sarah Jessica Parker launched a series of three new fragrances called Dawn, Endless, and Twilight.

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On February 28,2014, Sarah Jessica Parker started the SJP Collection, a footwear line, at Nordstrom.

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Sarah Jessica Parker founded the company in 2005 with Alison Benson, following an introduction to Benson, from her agent Kevin Huvane.

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Together, Benson and Sarah Jessica Parker have dedicated towards increasing female representation in media and production work through the company's projects.

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In October 2016, Sarah Jessica Parker announced an imprint with Crown Publishing Group, SJP for Hogarth, and in 2017, her partnership with American Library Association to create Book Club Central, a new online platform that will provide reading resources, including recommendations, expert-curated book lists, and other content for book clubs and readers.

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Sarah Jessica Parker was in a relationship with actor Robert Downey Jr.

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Sarah Jessica Parker married actor Matthew Broderick on May 19,1997, in Manhattan's Lower East Side, in an Episcopal ceremony officiated by Broderick's sister, Janet Broderick Kraft.

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Sarah Jessica Parker and Broderick's twin daughters, Marion and Tabitha, were born June 22,2009, via surrogacy.

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Since 2009, Sarah Jessica Parker has lived in Greenwich Village with her husband and children.