Mary-Louise Parker

Mary-Louise Parker (born August 2 1964) is an American actress. Following her Broadway debut as Rita in Craig Lucas's Prelude to a Kiss in 1990 (for which she won a Tony Award nomination), Parker became famous for her film roles in 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) as well as The Maker (1997). Parker received the 2001 Tony Award as Best Actress in an independent film for her portrayal in David Auburn's Proof of Catherine Llewellyn. Between 2001 and 2006, she was a regular as 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 the Drama Series in 2002. She won the Golden Globe and a Primetime Emmy Award for her performance of Harper Pitt in the acclaimed HBO miniseries Angels in America in 2003.Parker enjoyed a huge successes as Nancy Botwin, the lead character of the TV series Weeds, which ran from 2005 until 2012. She was nominated for three nominations for the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actress in the field of Comedy Series between 2007 and 2009 and was awarded the Golden Globe Award for Best Actress for a Television Series Musical or Comedy in 2006.Her later film appearances include her roles in The Spiderwick Chronicles (2008), Red (2010), R.I.P.D. (2013), and Red 2 (2012). 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. Parker has been contributing articles to Esquire magazine since 2007 and publishing Dear Mr. You in 2015. In 2017, she was a guest star in the role of Roma Guy on the ABC miniseries on television called When We Rise. She worked as a consultant to the political arena in the Showtime show Billions in the year 2018.



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