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Southern-bred Mary-Louise Parker, from Fort Jackson, South Carolina,
was born on August 2, 1964, the youngest of the family's brood. She
showed potential in her teens and majored in acting in her college
years, graduating from the North Carolina School of ...(read more)
Southern-bred Mary-Louise Parker, from Fort Jackson, South Carolina,
was born on August 2, 1964, the youngest of the family's brood. She
showed potential in her teens and majored in acting in her college
years, graduating from the North Carolina School of the Arts. She
decided to test the waters in New York, and after work on the
off-Broadway stage in the late 1980s, made her Broadway debut with
"Prelude to a Kiss" in 1990, where she won the Theatre World Award, the
Clarence Derwent Award and a Tony nomination. Films and TV quickly
followed. She provided both poignant and amusing moments as the token
femme friend to a group of gay men in the AIDS drama Longtime Companion (1990) , but
really caught fire with her feisty, standout performance in Fried Green Tomatoes (1991) ,
holding her own against such female powerhouses as 'Jessica Tandy' , 'Kathy Bates (I)' and
'Mary Stuart Masterson' . Dubbed by some as the "long-suffering girl next door", she
played such noble miserables and cast-asides in Grand Canyon (1991) , Naked in New York (1993) ,
Bullets Over Broadway (1994) , Boys on the Side (1995) , in which she was the AIDS victim this time, and
Let the Devil Wear Black (1999) . Preferring quality over quantity, she perfected her craft with
offbeat roles in independent features and did not abandon her theater
roots. She copped a slew of acting prizes for her stage work in "How I
Learned to Drive" (1996) and, most notably, "Proof" in 2000, wherein
she won nearly every award there is to attain, including the
prestigious Tony. Her marquee name still does not command what it
should, but a picture or production with Mary-Louise Parker in it
usually guarantees a strong critical reception. Unmarried, she did
enter into a longtime companionship with actor 'Billy Crudup' after the
twosome appeared opposite each other in the 1996 play "Bus Stop". They
went their separate ways in 2003.
Gary Brumburgh / gr-home@pacbell.net
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Posted on 09/05/07 09:01 PM.
she is great
Posted on 08/07/07 01:09 AM.
Will you be my friend?? barun_pintoo@yahoo.co.in
Posted on 05/20/07 05:44 PM.
She's cool
Posted on 05/16/07 12:27 AM.
love her!