Mini Biography:Mary-Louise Parker (born August 2, 1964) is an American actress, best known for her current 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, Fried Green Tomatoes, Boys on the Side, The West Wing, 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.
Parker was born in Fort Jackson, South Carolina, the daughter of Caroline, who was of Swedish descent, and John Parker, a judge who served in the U.S. Army.Because of her father's career, Parker spent parts of her childhood in Tennessee and Texas, as well as internationally in Thailand, Germany and France.Parker majored in drama at the North Carolina School of the Arts. She then got her start in a bit part on the soap opera Ryan's Hope. In the late 1980s, Parker moved to New York, where she got a job measuring feet at ECCO. After a few minor roles, she made her Broadway debut in a 1990 production of Craig Lucas' Prelude to a Kiss, playing the lead role of Rita. She moved with the production when it transferred from its origin Off-Broadway. She won the Clarence Derwent Award for her performance and was nominated for a Tony Award (although she did not play the role when the film was made). Parker also briefly dated her co-star Timothy Hutton during this time.
Personal life:
From 1996 to November 2003, Parker dated actor Billy Crudup, with whom she had a son, William Atticus Parker, born on January 7, 2004.[10] In December 2006, Parker began dating actor Jeffrey Dean Morgan, whom she met on the set of Weeds.[11] In March 2007, Parker stated that the relationship was "going great."[12] The two briefly split in June 2007, but later reconciled.[11] 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, Caroline "Ash" Aberash Parker, from Ethiopia.
Since June 2009, she has been dating singer-songwriter Charlie Mars.Mary- Louise is reportedly quitting after the sixth season and since there is no reason for the show to continue without her that is the end of “Weeds”. If she doesn’t feel comfortable to work with the directors and producers of the show, I think Mary-Louise is doing the right thing!
Love is blooming in the land of Weeds. Mary-Louise Parker has a new musician to serenade her. Mary-Louise Parker, 45, has been dating musician Charlie Mars, 35, since June 2009.
Sources are saying that there was no tearing the twosome apart during Emmy weekend. Parker was in town to attend the award ceremony.
But don’t think these two just met. Last year Mary-Louise appeared in the music video for Charlie’s single, “Listen to the Darkside” off his album Like a Bird, Like a Plane.
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