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Sarah Jessica Parker

Sarah Jessica Parker

A celebrated icon in film and television as well as fashion, Sarah Jessica Parker continues to expand upon her impressive collection of credits through her remarkable range and effortless style. An actress since the age of eight, Parker continues to come into her own as an artist and as an entrepreneur.

Parker serves as a producer and reprises her Emmy award-winning role as Carrie Bradshaw, for the screen adaptation of the hit HBO series Sex and the City. Parker won over critics and audiences alike in the series for which she was awarded a Golden Globe Award for Best Actress in 2000, 2001, 2002, 2004 as well as a Screen Actors Guild Award in 2001. Parker was also an executive producer on the series, which received the Golden Globe Award for Outstanding Comedy Series three years in a row in 2000, 2001, and 2002, and was honored with an Emmy for Outstanding Comedy Series in 2001.

HBO and Parker have signed a two-year, exclusive-to-television deal for Parker to develop and produce series and long-form programming for HBO through her production company, Pretty Matches Productions.

Parker was most recently seen in the feature film, Smart People. Directed by Noam Murro, she stars opposite Dennis Quaid as a doctor who falls in love with a professor whose wife's death has turned him into a bitter man.

Parker recent film, Paramount's Failure to Launch with Matthew McConaughey grossed more than $128 million worldwide.

Other recent credits include her Golden Globe nominated performance in The Family Stone; David Mamet's satirical comedy, State and Main; Dudley Do-Right, opposite Brendan Fraser; Paramount's Til There Was You opposite Dylan Mc Dermott; Tim Burton ‘s Mars Attacks; If Lucy Fell, opposite Ben Stiller; Tim Burton's Ed Wood, co-starring Johnny Depp; The First Wives Club with Bette Midler, Diane Keaton and Goldie Hawn; Miami Rhapsody, with Antonio Banderas; Disney's Hocus Pocus; Honeymoon in Vegas, opposite Nicholas Cage; and her breakthrough role in LA Story co-starring Steve Martin.

Parker's early motion picture roles include Flight of the Navigator, Girls Just Want To Have Fun, Footloose, with Kevin Bacon; Michael Apted's First Born; Robert Wiemer's Somewhere Tomorrow, and United Artists' Rich Kids, with John Lithgow.


Note: This profile was written in or before 2008.
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Sarah Jessica Parker Facts

OccupationActress
BirthdayMarch 25, 1965 (58)
SignAries
BirthplaceNelsonville, Ohio, USA
Height5' 4" (1m63)  How tall is Sarah Jessica Parker compared to you?
Awards2004 Golden Globe Awards: Best Actress in a Television Series - Musical or Comedy (for Sex and the City)
2004 Emmy Awards: Outstanding Lead Actress in a Comedy Series (for Sex and the City)
2002 Golden Globe Awards: Best Actress in a Television Series - Musical or Comedy (for Sex and the City)
2001 Golden Globe Awards: Best Actress in a Television Series - Musical or Comedy (for Sex and the City)
2001 Screen Actors Guild Awards: Best Female Actor in a Comedy Series (for Sex and the City)
2000 Golden Globe Awards: Best Actress in a Television Series - Musical or Comedy (for Sex and the City)

Selected Filmography

Footloose
The Family Stone
Sex and the City: The Movie
Sex and the City 2
Hocus Pocus
Escape From Planet Earth
Flight of The Navigator
All Roads Lead to Rome
Ryan White Story
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