Mary-Louise Parker
Mary-Louise Parker, born August 2 1964, is an American actress. After her Broadway debut as Rita in Craig Lucas's Prelude to a Kiss in 1990 (for which she was awarded a Tony Award nomination), Parker gained notoriety for roles in films such as Grand Canyon (1991), Fried Green Tomatoes (1991), The Client (1994), Bullets over Broadway (1994), A Place for Annie (1994), Boys on the Side (1995), The Portrait of a Lady (1996), and The Maker (1997). Parker was nominated for the Tony Award for Best Actress In the same Play in 2001, for her performance as Catherine Llewellyn, in David Auburn's Proof. In the NBC TV series The West Wing she starred in a second time as Amy Gardner, and was nominated for a Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Sustained actress in the Drama Series. Her performance as Harper Pitt in HBO's acclaimed miniseries Angels in America in 2002 was rewarded with a Primetime Emmy Award as well as an award from the Golden Globe. In 2006, Parker won the Golden Globe A...