Mary-Louise Parker: great in Red 2
Mary-Louise Parker (born August 2, 1964) is an American actress, best known for her lead role on Showtime’s television series Weeds portraying Nancy Botwin, for which she has received several nominations and the Golden Globe Award for Best Actress in 2006. Parker has appeared in films and series such as 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 the Broadway play Proof.
While not your typical hot Hollywood babe, Mary-Louise’s sex appeal stems from her intelligence and feminine poise. She’s quite sexy for a woman hovering around the 40 mark, and we wonder if the fact that she’s part Swedish means that she’s less inhibited than the stereotypical American middle-aged woman. 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 also picked up her first Tony nomination for the role.
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Parker has since earned several major acting nominations and a handful of awards. In 1997, she won the OBIE for her exhilarating performance as a victim of child abuse in the play, How I Learned to Drive, and received the prestigious Best Actress Tony Award for Proof in 2001. She earned an Emmy nod in 2002 for her appearances on NBC’s The West Wing, and was nominated for a SAG and Golden Globe Award for her part in the HBO miniseries Angels in America (she took home the Golden Globe in 2004).Also in 2004, Parker’s body of work was honored by the Philadelphia Film Festival, where she was presented with a prize for Artistic Achievement. Few (living) actors can claim to have been the inspiration for a song, but you can count Mary-Louise among the tiny group that do. The Counting Crows’ song “Butterfly in Reverse” from their Hard Candy album (2002) was written for the actress. In March 2007, Parker played the lead role in the television film The Robber Bride. She then portrayed Zerelda Mimms in the Andrew Dominik film The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford, which opened in cinemas in September 2007. Parker appeared alongside Brad Pitt, Casey Affleck, Sam Rockwell and Garret Dillahunt. In August 2007, Parker continued her role in the third season of Weeds.In August 2007, she posed nude for an ad for the third season of Weeds.
In the ad, she appears as Eve in the Garden of Eden, with a snake draped around her body and a cannabis leaf behind her ear.Parker appeared in 2008’s The Spiderwick Chronicles and in off-Broadway’s Playwrights Horizons in the New York premiere of Dead Man’s Cell Phone, a new play by Sarah Ruhl, alongside Drama Desk Award Winner Kathleen Chalfant.She filmed the Donna Vermeer film Les Passages alongside Julie Delpy. Following this, she returned to work on the fifth season of Weeds. In the spring of 2009, Parker took the lead role in the revival of the play Hedda Gabler, which opened to garner a series of negative reviews.Parker starred opposite Bruce Willis in the film RED, an adaptation of the comic book mini-series of the same name. The film was released on October 15, 2010.In 2011, Parker became the host for the tenth season of the PBS documentary series Independent Lens.In 2013 she is in both RED 2 and R.I.P.D..From 1996 to November 2003, Parker dated actor Billy Crudup, with whom she had a son, William Atticus Parker, born on January 7, 2004 (Crudup had left her two months earlier).In December 2006, Parker began dating actor Jeffrey Dean Morgan, whom she met on the set of Weeds. In March 2007, Parker stated that the relationship was “going great.” The two briefly split in June 2007, but later reconciled. On February 12, 2008, Parker and Morgan announced their engagement, only to break up again in April 2008.In September 2007, Parker adopted a baby girl from Ethiopia, Caroline ‘Ash’ Aberash Parker.
