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Mary-Louise Parker: Tony Award
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Mary-Louise Parker is the award-winning actress who currently stars in the TV series Weeds. Parker won 2006's Emmy and a Golden Globe Award for her role as Nancy Botwin, a suburban mother who turns to selling marijuana in an effort to support her family. Parker ... won 2004's Golden Globe Award for Best Dramatic Actress for her role as Harper Pitt in the television mini-series Angels in America.
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Mary-Louise Parker is a multi-award-winning actress with a diverse career in film, television, and theater. Her work in WEEDS has garnered a Golden Globe Award and a 'Lead Actress' SAG nomination. Parker is ... the winner of a Golden Globe for 'Best Supporting Actress,' a Tony, an Emmy, two Obies, as well as numerous other nominations.
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Mary-Louise Parker has appeared in over three dozen big-screen movies, made-for-TV films and stage plays since she began working professionally in the late 1980s. She was cited as one of 12 "Promising New Actors of 1990" in John Willis' Screen World, and won the Clarence Derwent Award and Theatre World Award for her stage work in Prelude to a Kiss that same year. She ... picked up her first Tony nomination for the role.
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WEEDS, a single-camera comedy starring Mary-Louise Parker, Elizabeth Perkins, Kevin Nealon and Justin Kirk exposes the dirty little secrets that lie behind the pristine lawns and shiny closed doors of homes in the fictional town of Agrestic, California. Parker stars as a suburban mom who resorts to selling weed to support her family after her husband unexpectedly dies. Perkins stars as the uptight head of the PTA and Nealon plays a city councilman and one of Parker's regular customers. Parker's character finds unusual support and solace from an African American family as she begins to pursue her burgeoning business. Produced by Lions Gate Television in association with Tilted Productions, WEEDS is executive produced by Emmy(R) Award winner Jenji Kohan ("Friends"). Brian Dannelly ("Saved!"), who directed the series premiere, is a consulting producer and will direct additional episodes.
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Parker was born in Fort Jackson, South Carolina. Her mother was Swedish and her father was a judge and served in the U.S. Army.[1][2] Parker majored in drama at the North Carolina School of the Arts. She then got her start in a bit part on the soap opera Ryan's Hope. In the late 1980s, Parker moved to New York, where she got a job measuring feet at ECCO. After a few minor roles, she made her Broadway debut in a 1990 production of Craig Lucas' Prelude to a Kiss, playing the lead role of Rita. She won the Clarence Derwent Award for her performance and was nominated for a Tony Award.
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Mary-Louise Parker is a funny woman, whether she's working with a script like she does on Showtime's suburban pot comedy "Weeds," or flying solo. (Remember the awards speech where she thanked her newborn baby for providing her with a chest big enough to fill out her dress?)
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