Mary-Louise Parker
Birthday: 2 August 1964, Fort Jackson, South Carolina, USA
Height: 171 cm
Southern-bred Mary-Louise Parker, from Fort Jackson, South Carolina, was born on August 2, 1964, the youngest of four born to Judge John Morgan Parker and the former Caroline Louise Morell. She comes from Swedish, English, Scottish, Scotch-Irish, German, and Dutch ancestry. Her father's occupation took the family both around the country and ab...
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Southern-bred Mary-Louise Parker, from Fort Jackson, South Carolina, was born on August 2, 1964, the youngest of four born to Judge John Morgan Parker and the former Caroline Louise Morell. She comes from Swedish, English, Scottish, Scotch-Irish, German, and Dutch ancestry. Her father's occupation took the family both around the country and abroad while growing up.Parker showed potential in her teens and majored in acting in her college years, graduating from the North Carolina School of the Arts. Beginning her acting career with a part on the daytime soap Ryan's Hope (1975), Mary decided to test the waters in New York, and after work on the off-Broadway stage in the late 1980s, made her Broadway debut with "Prelude to a Kiss" in 1990, where she won the Theatre World Award, the Clarence Derwent Award and a Tony nomination. Films and TV quickly followed and she quickly gained attention. She provided both poignant and amusing as the token femme friend to a group of gay men in the AIDS drama Longtime Companion (1989), but really caught fire with her feisty, standout performance in Fried Green Tomatoes (1991), holding her own against such female powerhouses as Jessica Tandy, Kathy Bates and Mary Stuart Masterson. Dubbed by some as the "long-suffering girl next door", she played such noble offbeat miserables and cast-asides in Grand Canyon (1991), Naked in New York (1993), Bullets Over Broadway (1994), The Client (1994) Boys on the Side (1995), in which she was the AIDS victim this time, The Portrait of a Lady (1996), The Maker (1997), Let the Devil Wear Black (1999), Red Dragon (2002) and Pipe Dream (2002). Preferring quality over quantity, she perfected her craft with offbeat roles in independent features and did not abandon her theater roots. She copped a slew of acting prizes for her stage work in "How I Learned to Drive" (1996) and, most notably, "Proof" in 2000, wherein she won nearly every award there is to attain, including the prestigious Tony. Her marquee name still does not command what it should, but a picture or production with Mary-Louise Parker in it usually guarantees a strong critical reception. Unmarried, she did enter into a longtime companionship with actor Billy Crudup after the twosome appeared opposite each other in the 1996 play, "Bus Stop". They went their separate ways in 2003, amid major controversy (she was pregnant at the time).Mary Louise continues to divide her time equally and skillfully on TV, film and the stage. The powerful TV miniseries adaptation of Tony Kushner heralded award-winning Broadway play Angels in America (2003), directed by Mike Nichols, earned the actress supporting performance Golden Globe and Emmy awards. She also earned a Tony nomination for the Broadway show, "Reckless", a year later but truly turned heads and wowed audiences the year after that in the highly acclaimed 7-season HBO series Weeds (2005), earning another Golden Globe and several Emmy nominations for her amazing performance as Nancy Botwin, a relatively naïve suburban housewife and mother who courts serious trouble with the law and drug cartels when she turns into a neighborhood drug dealer for sustenance after her husband dies suddenly. Since then she has appeared in RED 2 (2013), R.I.P.D. (2013), Jamesy Boy (2014), Behaving Badly (2014), Chronically Metropolitan (2016)Adopting a second child from Ethiopia, Mary Louise was acknowledged in 2013 for her significant contributions to Hope North, an organization that works in the educating and healing of young victims caught in Uganda's civil war. Her memoir-in-letters, Dear Mr. You, came out in 2015. Show less «
I like to pretend that I'm a tough guy. It's kind of an admission of defeat if I have to ask for hel...Show more »
I like to pretend that I'm a tough guy. It's kind of an admission of defeat if I have to ask for help - or even kindness. But if it doesn't come, at some point I snap and demand it. Show less «
People have a problem with me being different, but that propels me forward in life.
People have a problem with me being different, but that propels me forward in life.
My mother is a beauty.
My mother is a beauty.
Words are really powerful. I don't believe that axiom at all - words can absolutely hurt you. Words ...Show more »
Words are really powerful. I don't believe that axiom at all - words can absolutely hurt you. Words can wound. They can do a lot of damage. I think they can do way more damage than sticks and stones. I'll take sticks and stones. Show less «
I don't really ever think about whether or not I like the characters I'm playing. I'm more into the ...Show more »
I don't really ever think about whether or not I like the characters I'm playing. I'm more into the minutiae of their behaviour or what they're doing in a certain scene. Show less «
I just want to make lunches and organize my kids' playroom.
I just want to make lunches and organize my kids' playroom.
I don't live in Los Angeles and I don't do a lot of superfluous press.
I don't live in Los Angeles and I don't do a lot of superfluous press.
My favorite scene in all of movies is Gregory Peck in 'To Kill A Mockingbird': You see him where he'...Show more »
My favorite scene in all of movies is Gregory Peck in 'To Kill A Mockingbird': You see him where he's on the porch, and his face is almost completely obscured. I don't want to see his face. Show less «
I never know why people come up to me. I think a lot of them just get super-excited because they rec...Show more »
I never know why people come up to me. I think a lot of them just get super-excited because they recognize me from TV but they don't remember where. Show less «
My sister's fish tacos are out of control. I'd give her a restaurant if I were a gazillionaire.
My sister's fish tacos are out of control. I'd give her a restaurant if I were a gazillionaire.
It's good to feel stupid sometimes and do things that are out of your comfort zone.
It's good to feel stupid sometimes and do things that are out of your comfort zone.
I have a child and I don't want to be at work all the time when he's small. I want to spend time wit...Show more »
I have a child and I don't want to be at work all the time when he's small. I want to spend time with him. Show less «
I feel like movies, if there's any kind of budget whatsoever, there's so much sitting, and I really ...Show more »
I feel like movies, if there's any kind of budget whatsoever, there's so much sitting, and I really like to work. Otherwise my blood sugar just drops, you know, six hours sitting in a camper. Show less «
I have to say, I haven't really worked with that many people in my career that I haven't liked, whic...Show more »
I have to say, I haven't really worked with that many people in my career that I haven't liked, which I think is really rare. Show less «
I enjoy cooking and baking. Alicia Silverstone's vegan cookbook is awesome.
I enjoy cooking and baking. Alicia Silverstone's vegan cookbook is awesome.
I'm not comfortable with getting a job by being at the right Hollywood party; I'm not a terribly soc...Show more »
I'm not comfortable with getting a job by being at the right Hollywood party; I'm not a terribly sociable creature. Show less «
My parents have been together for 65 years. They're both really stubborn. They're not quitters.
My parents have been together for 65 years. They're both really stubborn. They're not quitters.
The theater is who I am - it's where I feel the most inspired, the most at home, the most useful.
The theater is who I am - it's where I feel the most inspired, the most at home, the most useful.
[on Demián Bichir in Weeds (2005)] I might use a word that sounds pretentious, but his performance ...Show more »
[on Demián Bichir in Weeds (2005)] I might use a word that sounds pretentious, but his performance was almost holy. It was beyond being just about depth. He made the film into a Greek tragedy. And he is one of the few actors I know who could make that part humane. He is pretty delicious. Show less «
I don't put myself out there, so people aren't necessarily familiar with me or my face.
I don't put myself out there, so people aren't necessarily familiar with me or my face.
I don't get tired of hearing that somebody liked my work.
I don't get tired of hearing that somebody liked my work.
I don't think you necessarily have to be part of a traditional nuclear family to be a good mother.
I don't think you necessarily have to be part of a traditional nuclear family to be a good mother.
I do love my avocados, which are great for the skin. I eat pretty healthfully.
I do love my avocados, which are great for the skin. I eat pretty healthfully.
In college, my teachers were usually after me for going after comedy too much, leaning too much in t...Show more »
In college, my teachers were usually after me for going after comedy too much, leaning too much in that direction. Show less «
My way to combat anything is just to walk straight into it with my fists up.
My way to combat anything is just to walk straight into it with my fists up.
Mediocrity is underrated.
Mediocrity is underrated.
I never feel more useful than when I'm making my kids a bowl of soup.
I never feel more useful than when I'm making my kids a bowl of soup.
Look, I don't care if anyone likes me when it comes to my work. But I can be massively insecure in o...Show more »
Look, I don't care if anyone likes me when it comes to my work. But I can be massively insecure in other parts of my life. Show less «
I certainly was never the pretty girl at school, but I can go to a lot of different places with this...Show more »
I certainly was never the pretty girl at school, but I can go to a lot of different places with this face. Show less «
I don't often see the movies I'm in; I'm usually disappointed in myself and it only serves to make m...Show more »
I don't often see the movies I'm in; I'm usually disappointed in myself and it only serves to make me self-conscious. Show less «
I like A&E. I like those corny intimate-portrait things. They're so kind of ingenious and artificial...Show more »
I like A&E. I like those corny intimate-portrait things. They're so kind of ingenious and artificial and soothing. Show less «
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Annabelle: Creation
IMDb: 7
2017
109 min
Country: United States
Genre: Thriller, Horror, Mystery
Twelve years after the tragic death of their little girl, a dollmaker and his wife welcome a nun and several girls from a shuttered orphanage into ...