Born:
March 25, 1965
in
Nelsonville, Ohio
Best Known For:
Playing Carrie Bradshaw in Sex and the City.
Early-life:
Sarah Jessica Parker was born on March 25, 1965, in Nelsonville, Ohio. Her parents divorced and she grew up in Cincinnati with her mother, stepfather, three siblings and four stepbrothers and sisters. She made her acting debut, aged eight, in a local production of The Little Match Girl. When Parker was 11, the family moved to New Jersey enabling her to take professional roles on Broadway in Annie, The Innocents and The Sound of Music. During her teens, she danced with the National American Ballet Theatre and sang with the Metropolitan Opera.
Career:
Parker's scenes were deleted from her first film, Rich Kids. However, she was seen in sitcom Square Pegs. She appeared in several movies during the 1980s, including Footloose. Films since then include LA Story, Honeymoon in Vegas, Ed Wood and The First Wives Club. In 1998, she took the role of Carrie Bradshaw in HBO comedy series Sex and the City. The show was a huge hit and won Parker three Golden Globe awards. Since it finished in 2004, she's concentrated on big-screen work such as The Family Stone, Failure to Launch, Smart People, and two Sex and the City movies. More recent projects have included Garry Marshall's romantic comedy New Year's Eve and the comedy I Don't Know How She Does It.
Quote:
"I tell my friends married life is boring, but that's just a fun thing to say to make single people feel better."
Trivia:
She wed actor Matthew Broderick in 1997.