Mary-Louise Parker

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Latest News..

- Mary-Kate Olsen has joined Weeds (Season 3, 2007).
- Weeds (Season 3, 2007) is to be released in August 13, 2007 with 15 episodes.
- MLP has joined Point of Passion Ad Campaign.
- The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford (2007) is to be released on September 21, 2007.
- Matthew Modine has joined Weeds (Season 3, 2007), Both Nancy (MLP) and Celia (Elizabeth Perkins) fall for him.
- Romance & Cigarettes (2005) is to be directly released on DVD in USA soon.
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Upcoming Projects!..

WEEDS (SEASON 3, 2007)
TV series / leading / comedy, drama
Jenji Kohan / Elizabeth Perkins, Justin Kirk, Romany Malco, Tonye Patano, Hunter Parrish, Alexander Gould, Martin Donovan
August 13 2007 (Showtime, USA)
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THE ASSASSINATION OF JESSE JAMES BY THE COWARD ROBERT FORD (2007)
theatrical film / supporting / drama
Andrew Dominik / Brad Pitt, Casey Affleck, Sam Rockwell, Sam Shepard
September 21, 2007 (limited, USA)
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LES PASSAGES (2007)
theatrical film / leading / comedy, drama, romance / pre-production
Donna Vermeer / Julie Delpy
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THE SPIDERWICK CHRONICLES (2008)
theatrical film / supporting / fantasy / pre-production
Mark Waters / Nick Nolte, Martin Short, Joan Plowright, David Strathairn, Andrew McCarthy
/ February 15, 2008 (USA)
SMALL TRAGEDY (2008?)
theatrical film / supporting / drama /
Craig Lucas / Patricia Clarkson, Peter Sarsgaard, Maggie Gyllenhaal
Biography
Mary-Louise Parker (born August 2, 1964 in Fort Jackson, South Carolina) is an American actress whose work in theatre and film has won her international acclaim. She has been the recipient of prestigious awards such as the Tony, Emmy and Golden Globe awards. Her best-known works include Fried Green Tomatoes, Boys on the Side, Proof, The West Wing, Angels in America, and her current role on Showtime's Weeds.

Where it all began...

Acting was always her passion and she graduated from the North Carolina School of the Arts with acting as her major. She then got her start in a bit part on the soap opera Ryan's Hope.
In the late '80s, Parker moved to New York where she got a job measuring feet at ECCO. After a few minor roles, she made her Broadway debut in a 1990 production of Craig Lucas's Prelude to a Kiss, playing the lead role of Rita. For her performance she won the Clarence Derwent Award and was nominated for a Tony award. Parker also briefly dated her co-star Timothy Hutton. However, when the play was made into a film, Meg Ryan took over Parker's role.
That same year, Parker was noticed by critics worldwide when she appeared in the movie adaptation of another Craig Lucas play, the poignant Longtime Companion, one of the first movies to truly deal with AIDS.
This role was followed by her appearance in Fried Green Tomatoes (1991), alongside Jessica Tandy, Mary Stuart Masterson, Kathy Bates and Cicely Tyson; and - that same year - in Grand Canyon alongside Mary McDonnell, Alfre Woodard and Kevin Kline.

The 1990s

Parker maintained a strong theater presence in the early 1990s, but also maintained her reputation on the big screen, starring with Susan Sarandon and Tommy Lee Jones in The Client (1994); with John Cusack in Bullets Over Broadway (1994); and then playing an AIDS sufferer in Boys on the Side (1995), with Drew Barrymore and Whoopi Goldberg. She followed this up with a movie adaptation of yet another Craig Lucas play, Reckless (1995), alongside Mia Farrow and then in Jane Campion's The Portrait of a Lady (1996) which also starred Nicole Kidman, Viggo Mortensen, Christian Bale, John Malkovich and Barbara Hershey. She appeared alongside Matthew Modine in Tim Hunter's The Maker (1997).
Parker did not become an instant household name, but rather a darling of the critics. Her theater career continued to flourish when she appeared in Paula Vogel's 1997 critical smash How I Learned To Drive, with David Morse. After several independent film releases, she appeared in Let The Devil Wear Black and then a much-lauded role in The Five Senses (1999).

2001–2003

In 2001, Parker appeared alongside Larry Bryggman in David Auburn's Proof on Broadway, and among the praise showered on her was the much-coveted Tony award. However, Parker again lost out when the play was made into a film and the role was given to Gwyneth Paltrow. But whatever her theatrical aspirations, she would leave the stage for three years as her profile soared and she found roles wherever she looked: among them, the Silence of the Lambs prequel Red Dragon and Pipe Dream (2002). Next up was a guest role on the NBC drama, The West Wing, as women's rights activist Amelia "Amy" Gardner, which soon became a recurring role. Beginning in 2001, her character became Chief of Staff to the First Lady, became a love interest for neurotic Deputy Chief of Staff Joshua Lyman, and provided another female voice in a show publicly criticised for its lack of high-level political women. For this role, Parker was nominated for an Emmy, and a Screen Actors Guild award. During the fifth season Parker became pregnant and her character was written out of the series after appearing in four episodes of the fifth season. She returned to the role in 2005 and 2006. In November 2003, she split from long-time boyfriend Billy Crudup, after a seven-year relationship, which began when they met in a 1996 theater reprisal of the Marilyn Monroe film Bus Stop.
On December 7, 2003, HBO aired an epic six-and-a-half hour adaptation of Tony Kushner's acclaimed Broadway play Angels in America, directed by Mike Nichols. The miniseries—about a group of lost souls in New York during the AIDS epidemic of the 1980s—was internationally acclaimed by many critics. Parker played Harper Pitt, the valium-addicted wife of an in-the-closet gay lawyer. For her performance, Parker received the Golden Globe and Emmy awards for Best Supporting Actress in a Miniseries.
On January 7, 2004, two months after her split from Billy Crudup (who was rumoured to have become romantically involved with actress Claire Danes), Parker gave birth to their son, William Atticus.

2004–present

In 2004, Parker appeared in the Christian comedy Saved!, and a TV movie called Miracle Run based on the true story of a mother with two autistic sons, as well as appearing in Craig Lucas's Reckless on Broadway. Parker took the lead role that had been Mia Farrow's on screen. The production, directed by Mark Brokaw, was critically acclaimed during its run and earned Parker a nomination for another Tony award for Best Actress at the 2005 ceremony.
In 2005, Parker reprised her West Wing role for one episode. She also starred with Tom Skerritt in the CBS television film Vinegar Hill as a down-on-her-luck schoolteacher who, with her family, moves in with her in-laws only to discover their bitter, loveless relationship.
In 2005, Parker took on the lead role in the television series, Weeds, a comedy-drama which airs on Showtime. Parker plays a suburban mother who, following the death of her husband, decides to sell marijuana to make money, while also attempting to maintain her profile in the community. Her Angels in America co-star Justin Kirk, and Elizabeth Perkins also star. The first season finished in October 2005, with a second due to begin airing August 14th 2006.
In November 2005, Parker was honored with an exhibition of her career at Boston University, where memorabilia from her career were donated to the University's Library. Parker received the 2006 Golden Globe award for Best Actress in a TV Series – Musical or Comedy, given by the Hollywood Foreign Press Association, for her lead role in Weeds. In that category, she defeated all the four leads of Desperate Housewives. She dedicated the award to the late John Spencer, best known for his work as Leo McGarry on The West Wing. After receiving the award, Parker stated: "I'm really in favor of legalizing marijuana. I don't think it's that controversial."
Parker has finished filming The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford, an Andrew Dominik film starring Brad Pitt, Casey Affleck, Robert Duvall and Garret Dillahunt. She plays Zerelda Mimms.
She also returned to the role of Amy Gardner on The West Wing in several episodes during the show's final season. She became the Director of Legislative Affairs under President Santos.
Parker will next be seen in the second season of Weeds, which is due to air beginning August 14th, 2006.
She is also filming Small Tragedy directed by her long-time Broadway director Craig Lucas and starring Patricia Clarkson, Tony Goldwyn, Peter Sarsgaard and Maggie Gyllenhaal.

Selected filmography

Small Tragedy (in production) (2007) - The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford (2006) – Zerelda Mimms Weeds (2005) (TV series) – Nancy Botwin Romance & Cigarettes (2005) – Constance Saved! (2004) – Lillian Angels in America (2003) – Harper Amaty Pitt Red Dragon (2002) – Molly Graham The Portrait of a Lady (1996) – Henrietta Stackpole Boys on the Side (1995) – Robin Bullets Over Broadway (1994) – Ellen The Client (1994) – Dianne Sway Fried Green Tomatoes (1991) – Ruth Jamison Grand Canyon (1991) – Dee Longtime Companion (1990) – Lisa Ryan's Hope (1975) (TV series)
Appeared in a Bonnie Raitt music video entitled You Got It. A song entitled Butterfly in Reverse by the band Counting Crows was written for her. Received 'Special Thanks' credits for Wet Hot American Summer and Pieces of April. At the 2004 Golden Globes, Parker was dared by fellow West Wing cast member Janel Moloney to thank her newborn son for the enhancement of her breasts and profile, if she won the award for Angels in America. Parker did win, and did indeed thank her son, saying on stage, "Janel Moloney just told me she would pay me $1,000 if I thanked my newborn son for making my boobs look so good in this dress." Beat out the four lead actresses of Desperate Housewives for the Best Performance by an Actress in a TV Series-Comedy Golden Globe Award in 2006. Marc Cherry offered her the role of Susan on Desperate Housewives, but she turned him down and the role eventually went to Teri Hatcher.
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