Mary-Louise Parker (AP Photo/Matt Sayles)
Mary-Louise Parker is an actress whose many roles include Fried Green Tomatoes, Boys on the Side, Proof, The West Wing, Angels in America, and her current lead role on Showtime's television series Weeds portraying Nancy Botwin.
Parker majored in drama at the North Carolina School of the Arts. She then got her start in a bit part on the soap opera Ryan's Hope.
After a few minor roles, she made her Broadway debut in a 1990 production of Craig Lucas' Prelude to a Kiss, playing the lead role of Rita.
That same year, Parker was noticed by critics when she appeared in the movie adaptation of another Lucas play, Longtime Companion. She maintained a strong theater presence in the early 1990s, but also built her reputation on the big screen, The Client (1994), Bullets Over Broadway (1994) and Boys on the Side (1995).
Parker's next role was in a movie adaptation of yet another Craig Lucas play, Reckless (1995), alongside Mia Farrow, followed by Jane Campion's The Portrait of a Lady (1996), which also starred Nicole Kidman, Viggo Mortensen, Christian Bale, John Malkovich and Barbara Hershey. In addition, she appeared alongside Matthew Modine in Tim Hunter's The Maker (1997).
Parker's theater career continued when she appeared in Paula Vogel's 1997 critical smash How I Learned To Drive, with David Morse. After several independent film releases, she appeared in Let The Devil Wear Black and then a much-lauded role in The Five Senses (1999).
In March 2007, Parker played the lead role in the TV film The Robber Bride. Her next role was Zerelda Mimms in the Andrew Dominik film The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford.
Parker appeared in 2008's The Spiderwick Chronicles and in off-Broadway's Playwrights Horizons in the New York premiere of Dead Man's Cell Phone, a new play by Sarah Ruhl, alongside Drama Desk Award Winner Kathleen Chalfant.
In 2009 Mary-Louise Parker is currently filming the Donna Vermeer film Les Passages alongside Julie Delpy. Following this, she will return to work on the fifth season of Weeds. ~ Kevin Kline is seen with Parker at award ceremonies. Kline is known for many films, among them Soapdish.
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