![]() Avg.User Rating: Rate this person: Actor Born: August 2, 1964 in Jackson, SC Biography:Once called the "long-suffering girl next door," "Mary-Louise Parker" is one of the stage and screen's more trod-upon -- to say nothing of talented -- actresses. Too often confused with such actresses as "Mary Stuart Masterson", "Penelope Ann Miller", and "Sarah Jessica Parker" by virtue of her triple-barreled name, Parker is in a class of her own, capable of communicating an underlying strength and grit that saves her characters from being too easily classified as outright victims.
Born in Fort Jackson, South Carolina, on August 2, 1964, Parker is the youngest of several children. After graduating from the North Carolina School of the Arts, where she studied acting, she headed north, going to New York to pursue a stage career. Her work on the stage was fairly distinguished, and in 1990, Parker won a Theatre World Award and a Tony nomination for her performance in "Prelude to a Kiss". That same... Full Biography
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