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Who is Mary Louise Parker?

Mary-Louise Parker was born on August 2nd, 1964 in Fort Jackson, South Carolina. To date she has won a Tony, an Emmy, and a Golden Globe. An Academy Award is less likely for the actress is highly admired by critics and New York audiences, but twice she has been Tony nominated for Broadway roles that were turned into movies and then re-cast with better known movie leading ladies. In 1990 she received the starring role in the Craig Lucas play Prelude to a Kiss, and although it was her first outing she got a Tony Award nomination and a Clarence Derwent Award as Rita. But in 1992 when the movie version came out audiences saw Meg Ryan in her place opposite Alec Baldwin. When Parker did appear in a film adaptation of a different Craig Lucas play, Longtime Companion (released 1990) which was among the first to deal with the subject of AIDS it went largely ignored by the public. Later Parkers on stage leading lady status was cemented by her Tony Award for David Auburns Proof, but once more the movie role went to an established movie actress Gwynyth Paltrow across co-star Anthony Hopkins (2005). Nonetheless, audiences who have to see their actresses via some sort of medium instead of in person have enjoyed Parker in movies like Fried Green Tomatoes and on television in her roles on the West Wing and her Showtime hit Weeds. Parker has 3 children, 1 adopted in 2007.