Mary-Louise Parker

Mary-Louise Parker

Known for
Acting
Born
August 2, 1964 (age 62)
Birthplace
Fort Jackson, South Carolina, USA

Biography

Mary-Louise Parker (born August 2, 1964) is an American actress and writer. She is the recipient of two Tony Awards, two Golden Globe Awards, and a Primetime Emmy Award. THEATRE includes The Sound Inside at Studio 54 (Tony Award); How I Learned to Drive (Obie and Lucille Lortel Awards and an Outer Critics Circle nomination), Heisenberg and The Snow Geese at the Samuel J. Friedman Theatre; Proof at the Booth Theatre (Tony, Drama Desk, Outer Critics Circle, Drama League, Lucille Lortel, Obie, and New York Magazine Awards), Prelude to a Kiss at the Helen Hayes Theatre (Tony and Drama Desk nominations, Theatre World and The Clarence Derwent Award); Four Dogs and a Bone at the New York City Centre; Babylon Gardens at the Circle Repertory Theatre; The Art of Success at the Manhattan Theatre Club; Communicating Doors at the Variety Arts Theatre, Reckless at the Biltmore Theatre (Tony nomination); Hedda Gabler at the American Airlines Theatre; Bus Stop at the Circle in the Square theatre; The Importance of Being Earnest at Hartford Stage; Up in Saratoga at the Old Globe Theatre; and Hay Fever at the Studio Arena Theatre. TELEVISION includes The Institute, Weeds (Golden Globe award, four additional nominations, three Emmy nominations, six SAG nominations), Angels in America (Emmy, Golden Globe, and Satellite Awards), The West Wing (Emmy nomination), The Robber Bride (Emmy nomination), Mr. Mercedes, When We Rise, Billions, Sugar Time, Saint Maybe, and A Place for Annie. FILM includes Omni Loop, Red Sparrow, Golden Exits, R.I.P.D, Red and Red 2, Behaving Badly, Pipe Dream, Chronically Metropolitan, Longtime Companion, Grand Canyon, Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Café, Naked in New York, The Client, Bullets over Broadway, Boys on the Side, Reckless, The Five Senses, Saved!, Romance & Cigarettes, Red Dragon, Solitary Man, and Howl.

Known For

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Filmography

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Face

Face

Movie · as Tanya

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Kissinger Takes Paris

Kissinger Takes Paris

Movie

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The Best Is Yet to Come

The Best Is Yet to Come

Movie

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Guilty Creatures

Guilty Creatures

TV · 1 ep

2027
The Auction

The Auction

Movie · as Paula Kletter

2026
Happy Hours poster

Happy Hours

Movie

2026
Young Washington poster

Young Washington

Movie · as Mary Washington

2026
The Oresteia poster

The Oresteia

Movie · as Montie Middleton

2026
The Gray House poster

The Gray House

TV · as Eliza Van Lew · 8 eps

2025
Music Box: Counting Crows: Have You Seen Me Lately? poster

Music Box: Counting Crows: Have You Seen Me Lately?

Movie · as Self

2025
El Dorado poster

El Dorado

Movie · as Phillipa Rios

2025
The Institute poster

The Institute

TV · as Ms. Sigsby · 16 eps

2024
Omni Loop poster

Omni Loop

Movie · as Zoya Lowe

2024
Woody Woodpecker Goes to Camp poster

Woody Woodpecker Goes to Camp

Movie · as Angie

2024
Elsbeth poster

Elsbeth

TV · as Freya Frostad · 2 eps

2023
Seneca poster

Seneca

Movie · as Agrippina

2022
Bonnie poster

Bonnie

Movie · as Self

2022
Adieu Aurora poster

Adieu Aurora

Movie · as Wilma Munro

2022
The Same Storm poster

The Same Storm

Movie · as Roxy

2021
The Baltimore Waltz poster

The Baltimore Waltz

Movie · as Anna

2021
Colin in Black and White poster

Colin in Black and White

TV · as Teresa Kaepernick · 6 eps

2021
Hemingway poster

Hemingway

TV · as Marcelline Hemingway (voice), Mary Hemingway (voice) · 1 ep

2019
This Changes Everything poster

This Changes Everything

Movie · as Self

2018
Golden Exits poster

Golden Exits

Movie · as Gwendolyn

2018
Red Sparrow poster

Red Sparrow

Movie · as Stephanie Boucher

2017
Rachel Carson poster

Rachel Carson

Movie · as Rachel Carson (voice)

2017
When We Rise poster

When We Rise

TV · as Roma Guy · 4 eps

2017
Mr. Mercedes poster

Mr. Mercedes

TV · as Janey Patterson · 10 eps

2016
Chronically Metropolitan poster

Chronically Metropolitan

Movie · as Annabel

2016
Billions poster

Billions

TV · as George Minchak · 2 eps

2014
Jamesy Boy poster

Jamesy Boy

Movie · as Tracy

2014
Behaving Badly poster

Behaving Badly

Movie · as Lucy Stevens / Saint Lola

2014
Late Night with Seth Meyers poster

Late Night with Seth Meyers

TV · as Self · 1 ep

2013
R.I.P.D. poster

R.I.P.D.

Movie · as Proctor

2013
RED 2 poster

RED 2

Movie · as Sarah Ross

2013
Christmas in Conway poster

Christmas in Conway

Movie · as Suzy

2013
The Blacklist poster

The Blacklist

TV · as Naomi Hyland · 4 eps

2011
Warren Ellis: Captured Ghosts poster

Warren Ellis: Captured Ghosts

Movie · as Self

2010
Howl poster

Howl

Movie · as Gail Potter

2010
RED poster

RED

Movie · as Sarah Ross

2009
Solitary Man poster

Solitary Man

Movie · as Jordon Karsch

2008
The Spiderwick Chronicles poster

The Spiderwick Chronicles

Movie · as Helen Grace

2008
The Assassination of Jesse James: Death of an Outlaw poster

The Assassination of Jesse James: Death of an Outlaw

Movie · as Self

2007
The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford poster

The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford

Movie · as Zee James

2007
The Robber Bride poster

The Robber Bride

Movie · as Zenia Arden

2006
Romance & Cigarettes poster

Romance & Cigarettes

Movie · as Constance

2005
Vinegar Hill poster

Vinegar Hill

Movie · as Ellen Grier

2005
Weeds poster

Weeds

TV · as Nancy Botwin · 102 eps

2005
The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson poster

The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson

TV · as Self · 1 ep

2005
The Reichen Show poster

The Reichen Show

TV · as Self · 1 ep

2004
Saved! poster

Saved!

Movie · as Lillian

2004
The Best Thief in the World poster

The Best Thief in the World

Movie · as Sue Zaidman

2004
Miracle Run poster

Miracle Run

Movie · as Corrine Morgan-Thomas

2003
Angels in America poster

Angels in America

TV · as Harper Pitt · 6 eps

2002
Red Dragon poster

Red Dragon

Movie · as Molly Graham

2002
Pipe Dream poster

Pipe Dream

Movie · as Toni Edelman

2002
Master Spy: The Robert Hanssen Story poster

Master Spy: The Robert Hanssen Story

Movie · as Bonnie Hanssen

2002
The Quality Of Mercy

The Quality Of Mercy

Movie · as Sarah Richardson

2002
Master Spy: The Robert Hanssen Story poster

Master Spy: The Robert Hanssen Story

TV · as Bonnie Hanssen · 2 eps

2000
Cupid & Cate poster

Cupid & Cate

Movie · as Cate DeAngelo

1999
The Five Senses poster

The Five Senses

Movie · as Rona

1999
Goodbye Lover poster

Goodbye Lover

Movie · as Peggy Blane

1999
Let the Devil Wear Black poster

Let the Devil Wear Black

Movie · as Julia Hirsch

1999
The Simple Life of Noah Dearborn poster

The Simple Life of Noah Dearborn

Movie · as Dr. Valerie Crane

1999
The West Wing poster

The West Wing

TV · as Amy Gardner · 23 eps

1998
Saint Maybe poster

Saint Maybe

Movie · as Lucy Dean Bedloe

1998
Legalese poster

Legalese

Movie · as Rica Martin

1998
Moments of Discovery: The Making of Fried Green Tomatoes poster

Moments of Discovery: The Making of Fried Green Tomatoes

Movie · as Self

1997
Murder in Mind poster

Murder in Mind

Movie · as Caroline Walker

1997
The Maker poster

The Maker

Movie · as Officer Emily Peck

1996
The Portrait of a Lady poster

The Portrait of a Lady

Movie · as Henrietta Stackpole

1995
Boys on the Side poster

Boys on the Side

Movie · as Robin

1995
Sugartime poster

Sugartime

Movie · as Phyllis McGuire

1995
Reckless poster

Reckless

Movie · as Pooty

1994
The Client poster

The Client

Movie · as Dianne Sway

1994
Bullets Over Broadway poster

Bullets Over Broadway

Movie · as Ellen

1994
A Place for Annie poster

A Place for Annie

Movie · as Linda

1993
Naked in New York poster

Naked in New York

Movie · as Joanne White

1993
Mr. Wonderful poster

Mr. Wonderful

Movie · as Rita

1991
Fried Green Tomatoes poster

Fried Green Tomatoes

Movie · as Ruth Jamison

1991
Grand Canyon poster

Grand Canyon

Movie · as Dee

1989
Longtime Companion poster

Longtime Companion

Movie · as Lisa

1989
Signs of Life poster

Signs of Life

Movie · as Charlotte

1988
Too Young The Hero poster

Too Young The Hero

Movie · as Pearl Spencer

1982
American Playhouse poster

American Playhouse

TV · as Charlotte, Lisa · 1 ep

1956
Tony Awards poster

Tony Awards

TV · as Self - Presenter · 2 eps

1951
Hallmark Hall of Fame poster

Hallmark Hall of Fame

TV · as Linda, Lucy Dean Bedloe, Cate · 1 ep