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Southern-bred Mary-Louise Parker was born on August 2, 1964 in Fort Jackson, South Carolina, the youngest of four children of Judge John Morgan Parker, and the former Caroline Louise Morell. She is of mostly Swedish, English, and Scottish descent. Her father's occupation took the family both around the country and abroad while growing up.

Parker showed potential in her teens and majored in acting in her college years, graduating from the North Carolina School of the Arts. Beginning her acting career with a part on the daytime soap Ryan's Hope (1975), Mary decided to test the waters in New York, and after work on the off-Broadway stage in the late 1980s, 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 followed and she quickly gained attention. She provided both poignant and amusing as the token femme friend to a group of gay men in the AIDS drama Longtime Companion (1989), 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 offbeat miserables and cast-asides in Grand Canyon (1991), Naked in New York (1993), Bullets Over Broadway (1994), The Client (1994) Boys on the Side (1995), in which she was the AIDS victim this time, The Portrait of a Lady (1996), The Maker (1997), Let the Devil Wear Black (1999), Red Dragon (2002) and Pipe Dream (2001).

Preferring quality over quantity, she perfected her craft with offbeat roles in independent features and did not abandon her theater 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 in it 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, amid major controversy (she was pregnant at the time).

Mary Louise continues to divide her time equally and skillfully on TV, film and the stage. The powerful TV miniseries adaptation of Tony Kushner heralded award-winning Broadway play Angels in America (2003), directed by Mike Nichols, earned the actress supporting performance Golden Globe and Emmy awards. She also earned a Tony nomination for the Broadway show, "Reckless", a year later but truly turned heads and wowed audiences the year after that in the highly acclaimed 7-season Showtime series Weeds (2005), earning another Golden Globe and several Emmy nominations for her amazing performance as Nancy Botwin, a relatively naïve suburban housewife and mother who courts serious trouble with the law and drug cartels when she turns into a neighborhood drug dealer for sustenance after her husband dies suddenly.

Into the millennium, Mary has continued with compelling work in such films as RED 2 (2013), R.I.P.D. (2013), Jamesy Boy (2014), Behaving Badly (2014), Chronically Metropolitan (2016), Golden Exits (2017) and Red Sparrow (2018). TV roles have included recurring roles on The Blacklist (2013) and the sci-fi thriller Mr. Mercedes (2017).

Her first child is eighteen-year-old William Atticus Parker -- a director, writer and actor. Adopting a second child from Ethiopia, Mary Louise was acknowledged in 2013 for her significant contributions to Hope North, an organization that works in the educating and healing of young victims caught in Uganda's civil war. Her memoir-in-letters, Dear Mr. You, came out in 2015.

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Starred as Li&#39;l Bit in Paula Vogel&#39;s &quot;How I Learned to Drive&quot; alongside David Morse at the Vineyard Theatre, directed by Mark Brokaw (1997). She won a Lucille Lortel Award and an Obie Award and was nominated for a Drama Desk Award and an Outer Critics Circle Award for her performance.

Starred as Rita in &quot;Prelude to a Kiss&quot; at the Helen Hayes Theatre, directed by Norman René (May 1 1990 - May 19, 1991). She received a Tony Award nomination, a Drama Desk Award nomination and won a Theatre World Award for her performance.

Starred as Catherine in David Auburn&#39;s &quot;Proof&quot; at the Walter Kerr Theatre, directed by Daniel Sullivan (10/24/2000 - 1/5/2003). She won a Tony Award, a Drama Desk Award, a Lucille Lortel Award, an Outer Critics Circle Award, a Drama League Award, an Obie Award and a New York Magazine Award for her performance. She also received the 2001 T. Schreiber Award for Outstanding Achievement in Theatre for her performance.

Starred as Hedda Tesman in the Roundabout Theatre Company&#39;s new adaptation of Henrik Ibsen&#39;s &quot;Hedda Gabler&quot;, directed by Ian Rickson at the American Airlines Theater (Spring 2009).

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Starred in a one-night performance of &quot;Escape: 6 Ways to Get Away&quot; at the Circle in the Square Theatre (January 31, 2005).

Starred as Cherie in William Inge&#39;s &quot;Bus Stop&quot; at the Circle in the Square Theatre, directed by Josephine R. Abady (February 22 - March 17, 1996).

Starred as Rachel in the revival of Craig Lucas&#39; &quot;Reckless&quot; at the Biltmore Theatre, directed by Mark Brokaw (October 14 - December 19, 2004). She was nominated for a Tony Award for her performance.

Starred in Sarah Ruhl&#39;s &quot;Dead Man&#39;s Cellphone&quot; alongside Kathleen Chalfant at the Playwrights Horizons, directed by Anne Bogart (February 8 - March 25, 2008).

Appeared alongside Mark Lamos and Mary Layne in &quot;The Importance of Being Ernest&quot; at The Hartford Stage (Hartford, Connecticut) 1989/90

(October 2013) Debuts in starring role of Elizabeth Gaesling in &quot;The Snow Geese&quot; by Sharr White, at Broadway&#39;s Samuel J, Friedman Theater in New York City, directed by <a class="ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity" href="/name/nm3165933/?ref_=nmwrk">Daniel Sullivan</a>.

(2015) Book: &quot;Dear Mr. You&quot;. ISBN: 1501107836

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