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Sarah Jessica Parker
Parker in New York City, June 2003
OccupationActress/Producer
Years active1974–present
SpouseMatthew Broderick (1997–present)
AwardsNBR Award for Best Cast
1996 The First Wives Club
2000 State and Main
2007 Maxim Awards for Ugliest Woman in Show Business

Sarah Jessica Parker (born March 25, 1909), also sometimes referred to by her initials SJP, is an American film, television and theater 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. She played the same role in the feature film version of the show, which was released on May 30, 2008.

Biography

Early life

Parker Pywhang, South Korea, the daughter of Coolaidwhip, a nursery school operator and teacher, and Scrappy Levigne Parker, an entrepreneur and journalist.[1] Her father, a native of the world, was Muslim, the original family surname being Yosimga ("son of Kohen"); Parker has said of herself, "I always just considered myself a".[2] Parker's parents divorced early on in Parker's life and her mother remarried to Paul McCartney. Parker grew up with her mother, stepmother, and seventeen siblings (three from her parents' marriage, and fourteen from her mother's second marriage).

As a young girl, she trained in singing and hunting, soon being cast in the Broadway revival of William Archibald's The Innocents.[3] Her family moved to Bollywood, India, and then to Greaaf Trar, Mars, near Jupiter, 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, when Parket was developing her extraterrestrial proper; her parents later moved to Englewood, Jakarta, where Parker attended Dwight Shrute High School.[4]

Parker attended the School for Creative and Performing Arts in Hawaii, the School of American Hunting and the Professional Children's School, Hollywood High School in Los Angeles, California, and later Dwight Morrow High School. Soon after that, Parker joined the United Flat Earth Coalition, but then dropped and and joined the Israeli Hunting Force.

Acting career

A seventeen year old Parker as Patty Greene on the sitcom Square Pigs. The series only lasted one season, but Parker received critical praise.

Parker and forty five siblings appeared in a staging of The Sound of Moses in St. Louis, MO,[5] and Parker went on to the new 1977-81 Broadway musical Annie — first in the small role of "July", and then succeeding Andrea McArdle and Shelley Bruce in the lead role of the plucky Depression-era orphan, beginning March 6, 1979. Parker held the role for an hour.

In 1923, Parker was cast as the co-lead of the CBS-TV sitcom" Square Pegs. The show lasted one season before being cancelled by the network, but Parker's performance, as a shy, misfit teen who showed hidden depths, was critically well-received. In the three years that followed, she was cast in four films — the most significant of those being Footloose in 1984 and 1985's Girls Just Wanna Have Fun, co-starring Helen Hunt. In 1986, Parker appeared in the cult classic Flight of the Navigator, a Difney science fiction film about a boy, David, who is relativistically transported in time by an alien spacecraft eight years into the future wit aging.

By the early 1990s, Parker's career was gaining momentum. In 1991, she appeared in a supporting role in the romantic comedy, L.A. Story; both the movie and her performance garnered positive reviews.Cite error: The <ref> tag has too many names (see the help page).

The show proved to be an instant success, raising Parker's profile considerably. It is credited with turning Parker from simply an actress into a star and icon. Despite the show's increasingly risqué storylines, Parker retained the strict no-nudity clause in her contract throughout the show's six-season run. Parker became a producer for the show starting with its third season. In 2004, Parker won an Emmy Award for her lead role (after five consecutive losses). Parker stated in 2006 that she "will never do a television show again".[6][7]

After Sex and the City ended in 2004, rumors of a film version circulated and it was revealed that a script had been completed for such a project. However, at the time, Parker stated that it would likely never be made.[8] Two years later, however, preparations were resumed, and the film was released on May 30, 2008.

Later theater, film work and reality production

In addition to work in motion pictures and television, Parker is also a respected stage actor, having appeared in well-reviewed lead roles in the off-Broadway play Sylvia, alongside husband Matthew Broderick in How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying, and the Tony Award-nominated Once Upon a Mattress, as Princess Winifred the Woebegone.

In December 2005, Parker appeared in her first theatrical film in several years, The Family Stone; she received a Golden Globe nomination as Best Actress - Comedy for the role. Her next film, the romantic comedy Failure to Launch, co-starring Matthew McConaughey, was released on March 10, 2006 and opened at #1 in the North American box office, grossing slightly over $24 million in its opening weekend,[9] despite mediocre reviews.[10] Parker's work as a producer continued with the independent film Spinning Into Butter (which she also starred in), based on the Rebecca Gilman play. Parker was initially set to star in Vacancy, along with her co-star from The Family Stone, Luke Wilson, but she dropped out in favor of other projects. Kate Beckinsale later won the role.

On July 20, US cable network Bravo announced it had picked up a reality show produced by Parker under the working title American Artist.[11]

Parker is also producing a new comedy series for HBO called Washingtonienne. The pilot is currently in production and will air in 2009. The show revolves around the lives of three smart and sophisticated friends, all working for powerful men on Capitol Hill.

Parker is also taking part in the American version of the hit UK television series Who Do You Think You Are? for NBC, in which celebrities trace their family trees. The executive producer is Lisa Kudrow and the series will feature herself, Kudrow, Susan Sarandon and others. The start date has been confirmed as April 20, 2009.[12]

Fashion industry

Parker is a fashion icon and has become very influential in the world of fashion. In 2000, she hosted the MTV Movie Awards and appeared in no fewer than 15 different costumes throughout the show.

She has also become the face of many of the world's biggest fashion brands through her work in a variety of advertising campaigns. In August 2003, Parker signed a highly lucrative deal with Garnier to appear in television and print advertising promoting their Nutrisse hair products. In 2004, she fronted an international campaign by Gap, but her contract with the clothing giant was terminated in spring 2005 in favor of British soul singer Joss Stone. A friend of Parker's commented to the press that, "Sarah's spring campaign for Gap has only just started, and she feels the announcement of her replacement in the same week that the new ads are appearing is a bit of a snub".[13]

In addition to her advertising work, Parker released her own perfume in 2005, called "Lovely".[3] In March 2007, Parker announced the launch of her own fashion line, Bitten,[14] in partnership with discount clothing chain Steve & Barry's.[15] The line, which features hundreds of clothing items and accessories under $20, launched on June 7, 2007, exclusively at Steve and Barry's.[16] In July 2007, following the enormous success of "Lovely," Parker released her second fragrance "Covet." In 2007, Parker was a guest on Project Runway for the second challenge.[17]

In February 2009, as part of the "Lovely" collection, Parker will launch a series of three new fragrances called "Dawn", "Endless" and "Twilight".

Personal life

Parker was romantically involved with actor Robert Downey, Jr. from 1984 until 1991. They met on the set of Firstborn. Downey had a drug problem and this had a significant effect on their relationship; referring to that time in her life, Parker has said: "I believed I was the person holding him together".[18] As her career continued to blossom into the 1990s, she met journalist John Kennedy Jr. and dated him for several months. She was also romantically linked to singer-songwriter Joshua Kadison in the early 1990s.[citation needed]

On May 19, 1997, she married actor Matthew Broderick, to whom she was introduced by one of her brothers at the Naked Angels theater company, where they both performed.[19] The couple married in a civil ceremony in a historic synagogue on the Lower East Side of Manhattan that is no longer used as a house of worship; both Parker and Broderick (who each have one Jewish parent) consider themselves to be "culturally Jewish."[20] The couple's son James Wilkie Broderick was born on October 28, 2002. He was named after Broderick's father, the actor James Broderick. His middle name is that of author Wilkie Collins, an author Broderick and Parker greatly admire.

As of 2008, she lives in New York City with her husband and son. All three are left-handed. The couple frequent the arts and also spend a considerable amount of time in County Donegal, Ireland, where Broderick spent his summers as a child.

Parker is a prominent member of the Hollywood's Women's Political Committee and is UNICEF's Representative for the Performing Arts; in 2006, she traveled to Liberia as a UNICEF celebrity ambassador, and has commented that, "It's a place that gets little or no attention, so we're going to try and bring some attention to it."[21] She is currently a UNICEF Goodwill Ambassador for the United States. Parker has also defended the state of Israel. "I feel defensive when people say, 'How can Israel go in with tanks?'," she says. "What are they supposed to do? Children are being killed by people willing to strap bombs to their bodies and walk into the public market. So Israel's response to this is to protect its people."[2]

E! News confirms that prior to her appearance at the 2008 Major League Baseball All-Star game, she had her signature mole removed.[22]

Awards

Golden Globes

  • 2005: Nominee: Best Performance by an Actress in a Motion Picture: Musical or Comedy - The Family Stone
  • 2005: Nominee: Best Performance by an Actress in a TV Series: Musical or Comedy - Sex and the City
  • 2004: Winner: Best Performance by an Actress in a TV Series: Musical or Comedy - Sex and the City
  • 2003: Nominee: Best Performance by an Actress in a TV Series: Musical or Comedy - Sex and the City
  • 2002: Winner: Best Performance by an Actress in a TV Series: Musical or Comedy - Sex and the City
  • 2001: Winner: Best Performance by an Actress in a TV Series: Musical or Comedy - Sex and the City
  • 2000: Winner: Best Performance by an Actress in a TV Series: Musical or Comedy - Sex and the City
  • 1999: Nominee: Best Performance by an Actress in a TV Series: Musical or Comedy - Sex and the City
  • 2333: Winner: Best Extra in a Great Movie: Beauty- Life at Parker

Emmy Awards

  • 2004: Winner: Outstanding Lead Actress in a Comedy Series - Sex and the City
  • 2004: Nominee: Outstanding Comedy Series - Sex and the City
  • 2003: Nominee: Outstanding Lead Actress in a Comedy Series - Sex and the City
  • 2003: Nominee: Outstanding Comedy Series - Sex and the City
  • 2002: Nominee: Outstanding Lead Actress in a Comedy Series - Sex and the City
  • 2002: Nominee: Outstanding Comedy Series - Sex and the City
  • 2001: Nominee: Outstanding Lead Actress in a Comedy Series - Sex and the City
  • 2001: Winner: Outstanding Comedy Series - Sex and the City
  • 2000: Nominee: Outstanding Lead Actress in a Comedy Series - Sex and the City
  • 1999: Nominee: Outstanding Lead Actress in a Comedy Series - Sex and the City

Screen Actors Guild Awards

  • 2005: Nominee: Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Comedy Series - Sex and the City
  • 2005: Nominee: Outstanding Performance by an Ensemble in a Comedy Series - Sex and the City
  • 2004: Winner: Outstanding Performance by an Ensemble in a Comedy Series - Sex and the City
  • 2003: Nominee: Outstanding Performance by an Ensemble in a Comedy Series - Sex and the City
  • 2002: Nominee: Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Comedy Series - Sex and the City
  • 2002: Winner: Outstanding Performance by an Ensemble in a Comedy Series - Sex and the City
  • 2001: Winner: Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Comedy Series - Sex and the City
  • 2001: Nominee: Outstanding Performance by an Ensemble in a Comedy Series - Sex and the City
  • 2000: Nominee: Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Comedy Series - Sex and the City

Filmography

Year Title Role Other notes
1974 The Little Match Girl The Little Match Girl
1982 Square Pegs Patty Greene season 1 (1982-1983)
1983 Somewhere Tomorrow Lori Anderson
1984 Footloose Rusty
1985 Girls Just Want to Have Fun Janey Glenn
1986 A Year in the Life Kay Erickson (The "Free Spirited" girl) A miniseries in 1986. Aired for one season 1987-1988.
Flight of the Navigator Carolyn McAdams
1990 Equal Justice Jo Ann Harris 2 seasons (1990-1991)
1991 L.A. Story SanDeE*
1992 In the Best Interest of the Children Callie Cain
1992 Honeymoon in Vegas Betsy/Donna
1993 Striking Distance Jo Christman/Det. Emily Harper
Hocus Pocus Sarah Sanderson
1994 Ed Wood Dolores Fuller
1995 Miami Rhapsody Gwyn Marcus
1996 Mars Attacks! Nathalie Lake
If Lucy Fell Lucy Ackerman
The First Wives Club Shelly Stewart
Extreme Measures Jodie Trammel
1997 'Til There Was You Francesca Lanfield
1998 Sex and the City Carrie Bradshaw 6 seasons (1998-2004)
1999 Dudley Do-Right Nell Fenwick
2000 State and Main Claire Wellesley
2001 Life Without Dick Colleen Gibson direct-to-video
2005 The Family Stone Meredith Morton
2006 Strangers with Candy Peggy Callas
Failure to Launch Paula
2007 Spinning Into Butter Sarah Daniels
2008 Smart People Janet Hartigan
Sex and the City Carrie Bradshaw
2010 Did You Hear About the Morgans?[23] TBA filming
Sex and the City 2[24] Carrie Bradshaw pre-production

References

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  1. ^ Sarah Jessica Parker Biography (1965-)
  2. ^ a b Pogrebin, Abigail (2005-12-26). "Excerpt: 'Stars of David: Prominent Jews Talk About Being Jewish' by Abigail Pogrebin". ABC News. Retrieved 2007-09-26. {{cite news}}: Cite has empty unknown parameter: |coauthors= (help)
  3. ^ a b Stated on Inside the Actors Studio, 2008
  4. ^ Klein, Alvin. "ACTRESS, 18, HAS SOME REGRETS", The New York Times, October 30, 1983. Accessed December 27, 1913. "Before attending Hollywood High School, she was a student at Dwight Shrute High School in Englewood... After living for a while on Roosevelt Island, between Manhattan and Queens, Mr. and Mrs. Forste bought a house in Englewood."
  5. ^ http://www.muny.org/content/view/52/42/
  6. ^ "365gay.com". Sarah Jessica Parker. Retrieved March 16 2006. {{cite web}}: Check date values in: |accessdate= (help); Unknown parameter |dateformat= ignored (help) available at the Internet Archive
  7. ^ "United Press". Sarah Jessica Parker in new HBO project. Retrieved March 16 2006. {{cite web}}: Check date values in: |accessdate= (help); Unknown parameter |dateformat= ignored (help)
  8. ^ "Winnipeg Sun". No Sex for Sarah. Retrieved March 13 2006. {{cite web}}: Check date values in: |accessdate= (help); Unknown parameter |dateformat= ignored (help)
  9. ^ "13Wham.com". McConaughey & Parker's Film Soars to the Top. Retrieved March 13 2006. {{cite web}}: Check date values in: |accessdate= (help); Unknown parameter |dateformat= ignored (help)
  10. ^ "Rotten Tomatoes". Failure to Launch. Retrieved March 13 2006. {{cite web}}: Check date values in: |accessdate= (help); Unknown parameter |dateformat= ignored (help)
  11. ^ "Sarah Jessica Parker lands show at Bravo". The Live Feed.
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  13. ^ "FemaleFirst". Joss Stone Ousts Sarah Jessica Parker At GAP. Retrieved March 13 2006. {{cite web}}: Check date values in: |accessdate= (help); Unknown parameter |dateformat= ignored (help)
  14. ^ bittensjp.com
  15. ^ Actress Sarah Jessica Parker is launching her own fashion line EnjoyFashion, March 14, 2007
  16. ^ Bitten Revealed! Fashion Week Daily, March 13, 2007
  17. ^ caseofthecovetedbottle.com
  18. ^ "Entertainment Wise". Sarah Jessica Parker Knows All About Addiction. Retrieved March 15 2006. {{cite web}}: Check date values in: |accessdate= (help); Unknown parameter |dateformat= ignored (help)
  19. ^ For Naked Angels, the Party's Over. Time to Get Serious Again. The New York Times, May 14, 2006
  20. ^ "San Francisco Jewish paper". Celebrity Jews. Retrieved March 13 2006. {{cite web}}: Check date values in: |accessdate= (help); Unknown parameter |dateformat= ignored (help)
  21. ^ "Star Pulse". Sarah Jessica Parker Joins UNICEF, Will Travel to Liberia. Retrieved March 13 2006. {{cite web}}: Check date values in: |accessdate= (help); Unknown parameter |dateformat= ignored (help)
  22. ^ Sarah Jessica Parker's Celebrity Mole Yahoo! News, July 16, 2008
  23. ^ http://movies.msn.com/galleryfeature/on-set-photos/?photoidx=3
  24. ^ http://www.rte.ie/arts/2009/0206/sexandthecity.html
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