Sarah Jessica Parker ~ Today Show guest

Sarah Jessica Parker appeared recently on the Today Show and was interviewed by Matt Lauer.

Parker is a film, television and theatrical actress, and producer. She is best known for her leading role as Carrie Bradshaw on the HBO television series Sex and the City, for which she won four Golden Globe Awards, two Screen Actors Guild Awards and two Emmy Awards.

As a young girl, Parker trained in singing and ballet, soon being cast in the Broadway revival of William Archibald's The Innocents. Her family moved to Cincinnati, Ohio and then to Dobbs Ferry, New York, near New York City, where Parker was developing her career as a child actress.

In 1977 the family moved to the newly opened planned community on Roosevelt Island, in the East River between Manhattan and Queens, and later to Manhattan proper; her parents later moved to Englewood, New Jersey, where Parker attended Dwight Morrow High School.

Parker attended the School for Creative and Performing Arts in Cincinnati, the School of American Ballet, Dwight Morrow High School and the Professional Children's School, Hollywood High School in Los Angeles, California.

Parker played the same role in the 2008 feature film version of the show, Sex and the City: The Movie and its sequel, Sex and the City 2, which is scheduled to open on May 28, 2010.

Parker is also known as a film actress, in addition to television and theater and has appeared in films like Honeymoon in Vegas (1992), Hocus Pocus (1993), along with co-star Bette Midler, Mars Attacks! (1996) with Pierce Brosnan, among others, State and Main (2000). More recently, Parker starred in The Family Stone (2005), Smart People (2008), and Did You Hear About the Morgans? (2009). ~ Ties with Parker:  Tribeca Film Festival, Matthew McConaughey