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.