Mary Louise Parker

MaryLouise Parker is an American actress. Best known for her lead role on Showtimes television series Weeds portraying Nancy Botwin, she received the Golden Globe Award for Best Actress in 2006. Parker has appeared in films and series including RED, RED 2, Fried Green Tomatoes, Boys on the Side, The West Wing, and Angels in America, for which she received a Golden Globe and an Emmy Award for Best Supporting Actress. Parker is also the recipient of the 2001 Tony Award for Best Actress for her performance in the Broadway play Proof.

Parker was born in Fort Jackson, South Carolina. The youngest of four children, she is the daughter of Caroline Louise and John Morgan Parker, a judge who served in the U.S. Army. Her ancestry includes Swedish , English, Scottish, ScotsIrish, German, and Dutch. Because of her fathers career, Parker spent parts of her childhood in Tennessee and Texas, as well as in Thailand, Germany, and France. She described her childhood as profoundly unhappy, further noting that, My parents did everything they could I had books, clothes, a home and a warm bed, but I was never happy. She graduated from Marcos de Niza High School in Tempe, Arizona. Parker majored in drama at the North Carolina School of the Arts and graduated in 1986.

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