August 2: Happy Birthday Mary-Louise Parker

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Mary-Louise Parker is celebrating her 53rd birthday today. She made her film debut in a pair of 1989 features, and had her first big success starring in the 1991 hit Fried Green Tomatoes. She never became a major film star, but over the years she’s had prominent roles in a variety of films, ranging from Grand Canyon to The Portrait of a Lady, to Saved!, to RED and RED 2. She will have a supporting role in next year’s Red Sparrow, adapted from the novel by Jason Matthews.

Parker has had some of her biggest success on television. In 2001 she began appearing in the recurring role of Amy Gardner on The West Wing, receiving her first Emmy nomination. She won an Emmy and a Golden Globe as Harper Pitt in HBO’s miniseries Angels in America, and later received an Emmy nomination for a TV movie adaptation of Margaret Atwood’s The Robber Bride. Her biggest television success, however, was starring as Nancy Botwin on Showtime’s Weeds, for which she won a second Golden Globe.


Parker has also been a successful stage actress who has received three Tony nominations. She won Best Actress in a Play for starring in the original production of David Auburn’s Proof. Her latest starring role in the stage was in Simon Stephens’s Heisenberg, which opened on Broadway last fall.