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Sarah Jessica Parker

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Date of birth: 25 March 1965,
Birth Place: Nelsonville, Ohio, USA

Biography

Sarah Jessica Parker was born March 25, 1965 to Stephen and Barbara Parker of Nelsonville, Ohio, the fourth of eight children. Her parents' marriage fell apart soon after her birth, and her mother later married a businessman named Paul Forste. Young Sarah Jessica trained in singing and ballet, and became a professional performer at an early age, as did several of her siblings. In 1976, her family moved to New Jersey after Sarah landed her first Broadway role, in The Innocents. (Her older brother, Timothy Britten Parker, was an understudy in the same play.) Following that, she performed in the national company of The Sound of Music, with four of her siblings.

Her appearance in an off-Broadway revue based on the songs of Charles Strouse, who wrote the music for the Broadway play Annie, led to winning a role in that production. In January 1979, she became the third actress to portray the lead in that play, remaining in the role for 12 months, until she outgrew it. She attended Dwight Morrow High School in Englewood, NJ and performed in other plays until 1982, when she landed one of the lead roles in the CBS sitcom, Square Pegs. She then transferred to Hollywood High. After graduation, she decided to bypass college in order to pursue acting full time. After the cancellation of her series, she began appearing in movies, mostly in supporting roles, as well continuing on the stage. She also won regular roles in two other critically acclaimed, but low rated, television series, A Year In The Life, and Equal Justice. During this time, she had a serious relationship with actor Robert Downey, Jr., sharing quarters with him for several years. After breaking up with him, she had a brief romance with John Kennedy, Jr., before meeting the man she hopes will be her partner for life, Matthew Broderick.

Her professional life experienced a similar change for the better at about the same time. In 1991, she landed the part of SanDeE* in Steve Martin's movie, L. A. Story. Suddenly people noticed that not only was she a superb comedienne, but she had also grown to be a very attractive young woman. Since this latter fact in of supreme importance in Hollywood, she was now able to land bigger parts in movies featuring big stars such as Bruce Willis and Bette Midler. She has continued to work on stage, garnering a Drama Desk Award nomination for Best Actress for her performance as the title character in the play Sylvia. She appeared in How To Succeed In Business Without Really Trying with Mr. Broderick, and played the lead role in the Tony award-nominated musical comedy, Once Upon A Mattress, on Broadway.
On May 19, 1997, Sarah Jessica married her longtime beau, Matthew Broderick.

Ms. Parker is active in aiding charitable and political causes. Her favorite charity is UNICEF and she works to raise money for AIDS research, PBS, Legal Information Network for Cancer, and school music programs.

She is starring on the HBO series, Sex And The City, for which she has received two Golden Globes and a Screen Actors Guild award as well as Emmy and American Comedy Award nominations as Best Actress. She also serves as an executive producer of the show, and has branched out into producing movies. With her increased fame, she is subject to lies and distortions in the media.

Filmography

Home on the Range (2003) (voice) .... Farmer Woman
Life Without Dick (2001) .... Colleen
America: A Tribute to Heroes (2001) (TV) .... Herself
Big Show, The (2001) (TV) .... Herself
... aka Big Show: Toronto International Film Festival, The (2001) (TV) (Canada: English title)
73rd Annual Academy Awards, The (2001) (TV) (uncredited) .... Presenter
2000 MTV Movie Awards (2000) (TV) .... Host
Intimate Portrait: Madeline Kahn (2000) (TV) .... Herself
Sex and the Matrix (2000) (TV) .... Carrie Bradshaw
State and Main (2000) .... Claire Wellesley
... aka Séquences et conséquences (2001) (France)

51st Annual Primetime Emmy Awards, The (1999) (TV) .... Presenter: Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Comedy Series
Dudley Do-Right (1999) .... Nell Fenwick
"Stories from My Childhood" (1998) TV Series
... aka "Mikhail Baryshnikov's Stories from My Childhood" (1998) (USA: complete title)
"Sex and the City" (1998) TV Series .... Carrie Bradshaw
Divas Live: An Honors Concert for VH1 Save the Children (1998) (TV) .... Presenter
... aka VH1 Divas Live (1998) (TV) (USA: short title)
"Shalom Sesame" (1997) TV Series .... Special Guest
Life Apart: Hasidism in America, A (1997) (voice) .... Narrator
'Til There Was You (1997) .... Francesca Lanfield
Mars Attacks! (1996) .... Nathalie Lake
Extreme Measures (1996) .... Jodie Trammel
Substance of Fire, The (1996) .... Sarah Geldhart
If Lucy Fell (1996) .... Lucy Ackerman
First Wives Club, The (1996) .... Shelly 'Shell' Stewart
Sunshine Boys, The (1995) (TV) .... Nancy Clark
67th Annual Academy Awards, The (1995) (TV) (uncredited) .... Presenter - Best Sound Effects Editing
Miami Rhapsody (1995) .... Gwyn Marcus
Ed Wood (1994) .... Dolores Fuller
1993 MTV Movie Awards (1993) (TV) .... Presenter
Striking Distance (1993) .... Jo Christman/Det. Emily Harper, Internal Affairs
Hocus Pocus (1993) .... Sarah Sanderson
65th Annual Academy Awards, The (1993) (TV) (uncredited) .... Presenter - Best Live Action Short Film
Honeymoon in Vegas (1992) .... Betsy/Donna
In the Best Interest of the Children (1992) (TV) .... Callie Cain
L.A. Story (1991) .... SanDeE*
"Equal Justice" (1990) TV Series .... Jo Ann Harris
Equal Justice (1990) (TV) .... Jo Ann Harris

Life Under Water (1989) (TV) .... Amy-Beth
Ryan White Story, The (1989) (TV) .... Laura
Twist of Fate (1989) (TV) .... Miriam
Dadah Is Death (1988) (TV) .... Rachel Goldman
... aka Barlow and Chambers: A Long Way From Home (1988) (TV)
... aka Deadly Decision (1988) (TV)
"Year in the Life, A" (1987) TV Series .... Kay Ericson Gardner
Room Upstairs, The (1987) (TV) .... Mandy Janovic
"Year in the Life, A" (1986) (mini) TV Series .... Kay Erickson
Flight of the Navigator (1986) .... Carolyn McAdams
Going for the Gold: The Bill Johnson Story (1985) (TV)
Girls Just Want to Have Fun (1985) .... Janey Glenn
Almost Royal Family, The (1984) (TV) .... Suzanne
Firstborn (1984) .... Lisa
... aka First Born (1984)
... aka Moving In (1984) (Europe: English title: video title)
Footloose (1984) .... Rusty
Somewhere Tomorrow (1983) .... Lori Anderson
"Square Pegs" (1982) TV Series .... Patty Greene
My Body, My Child (1982) (TV) (as Sarah J. Parker) .... Katy

Rich Kids (1979) (uncredited)

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Los Angeles, CA 90069
USA