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Mary-Louise Parker
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Biography

This Southern-bred actress from Fort Jackson, South Carolina was born on August 2, 1964, the youngest of the family's brood. She showed potential in her teens and majored in acting in her college years, graduating from the North Carolina School of the Arts. She decided to test the waters in New York, and after work on the off-Broadway stage in the late 80s, 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 took over. She provided both poignant and amusing moments as the token femme friend to a group of gay men in the AIDS drama Longtime Companion (1990), 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 miserables and cast-asides in Naked in New York (1993), Bullets Over Broadway (1994), Boys on the Side (1995), in which she was the AIDS victim this time, and Let the Devil Wear Black (1999). Preferring quality over quantity, she perfected her craft with offbeat roles in independent features and did not abandon her theatre 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 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.

Mary-Louise Parker stared in:

Title Year Saw with/at: Scene On Rating
Fried Green Tomatoes 1992 Don't Remember 0000-00-00 **** 1/2
Mr. Wonderful 1993 w/ Suzy on HBO 2003-10-11 ** 1/2
The Client 1994 Don't Remember 0000-00-00 *** 1/2
Bullets Over Broadway 1994 Showcase Orange 0000-00-00 ****
Saved! 2004 w/ Suzy on DVD 2004-11-06 *** 1/2
Romance & Cigarettes 2005 Suzy 2021-03-25 ** 1/2
The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford 2007 2008-02-09 **
Red 2010 Suzy 2011-01-23 **
Red 2 2013 Suzy and Krendra 2013-11-19 ** 1/2
Red Sparrow 2018 Suzy 2018-05-09 ***