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Mary-Louise Parker (born August 2, 1964) is a Tony-, Emmy - and Golden Globe-winning American actress. Some of her better known works include Fried Green Tomatoes, Boys on the Side, Proof, The West Wing, Angels in America, and her current role on Showtime's Weeds.
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Mary-Louise Parker ... managed to log a fair amount of television time over the course of her distinguished career. After a brief turn in the ABC soap opera Ryan’s Hope, she performed in the WWII television drama Too Young the Hero (1988). She played opposite Sissy Spacek in yet another AIDS drama, A Place for Annie (1994), and starred in the 1995 HBO biopic Sugartime. In 2001, she landed a recurring role on the highly successful ABC drama The West Wing, featuring film veterans Martin Sheen and Rob Lowe. Her turn as Amy Gardner earned her an Emmy Award nomination for Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Drama Series in 2002.
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Mary-Louise Parker (Harper Pitt) won every possible theatre award, including the Tony, for her performance in "Proof." Her film credits include "Red Dragon," "Fried Green Tomatoes," "Grand Canyon," "Reckless," "Boys on the Side," "The Client," "Mr. Wonderful," "Bullets Over Broadway," "Longtime Companion" and "The Five Senses." Parker's TV credits include "Master Spy: The Robert Hanssen Story," "The West Wing" (for which she received Emmy® and Screen Actors Guild nominations), HBO's "Sugartime," and "Saint Maybe."
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On the small screen, Parker's portrayal in Mike Nichols's highly acclaimed Angels In America garnered her Emmy® and Golden Globe® wins and a SAG® nomination. She received yet another Emmy® nomination for her performance on The West Wing. Parker ... starred in Sugartime, opposite John Turturro, A Place For Annie, Saint Maybe, Cupid & Cate, The Simple Truth Of Noah Dearborne, Miracle Run and Vinegar Hill. Parker was also recently in the Oxygen Channel original film Robber Bride, based on Margaret Atwood's book of the same name.
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In 2001, Parker appeared alongside Larry Bryggman in David Auburn's Proof on Broadway, and among the praise showered on her was the much-coveted Tony award. However, Parker again lost out when the play was made into a film and the role was given to Gwyneth Paltrow. But whatever her theatrical aspirations, she would leave the stage for three years as her profile soared and she found roles wherever she looked: among them, the Silence of the Lambs prequel Red Dragon and Pipe Dream (2002). Next up was a guest role on the NBC drama, The West Wing, as women's rights activist Amelia "Amy" Gardner, which soon became a recurring role. Beginning in 2001, her character became Chief of Staff to the First Lady, became a love interest for neurotic Deputy Chief of Staff Joshua Lyman, and provided another female voice in a show publicly criticised for its lack of high-level political women. For this role, Parker was nominated for an Emmy, and a Screen Actors Guild award.
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In 2005, Mary-Louise Parker reprised her West Wing role for one episode. She ... starred with Tom Skerritt in the CBS television film Vinegar Hill as a down-on-her-luck schoolteacher who, with her family, moves in with her in-laws only to discover their bitter, loveless relationship.
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