Sarah Jessica Parker
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Sarah Jessica Parker

Born 25 March 1965 · Nelsonville, Ohio, USA
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Sarah Jessica Parker (born March 25, 1965) is an American actress and television producer. She is the recipient of numerous accolades, including six Golden Globe Awards and two Primetime Emmy Awards. Time magazine named her one of the 100 most influential people in the world in 2022. She is known for her role as Carrie Bradshaw on the HBO television series Sex and the City (1998–2004), for which she won two Emmy Awards, four Golden Globe Awards for Best Actress in a Comedy Series and three Screen Actors Guild Awards. The character was widely popular during the airing of the series and was later recognized as one of the greatest female characters in American television. She later reprised the role in films Sex and the City (2008) and Sex and the City 2 (2010), as well as the television show And Just Like That... (2021–present). Parker made her Broadway debut at the age of 11 in the 1976 revival of The Innocents, before going on to star in the title role of the Broadway musical Annie in 1979. She made her first major film appearances in the 1984 dramas Footloose and Firstborn. Her other film roles include L.A. Story (1991), Honeymoon in Vegas (1992), Hocus Pocus (1993), Ed Wood (1994), The First Wives Club (1996), The Family Stone (2005), Failure to Launch (2006), Did You Hear About the Morgans? (2009), and New Year's Eve (2011).

Known for

Mars Attacks!
Hocus Pocus
Ed Wood
Sex and the City
Footloose
New Year's Eve
Sex and the City
Hocus Pocus 2
Failure to Launch
Sex and the City 2
The Family Stone
Did You Hear About the Morgans?
Hocus Pocus 2
In Search of the Sanderson Sisters: A Hocus Pocus Hulaween Takeover
What She Said: The Art of Pauline Kael
Here and Now
The Times of Bill Cunningham
All Roads Lead to Rome
Escape from Planet Earth
New Year's Eve
I Don't Know How She Does It
Sex and the City 2
One Night Only: Barbra Streisand and Quartet at the Village Vanguard
Did You Hear About the Morgans?
Spinning Into Butter
Sex and the City
Smart People
Failure to Launch
Strangers with Candy
The Family Stone
Life Without Dick
State and Main
Sex and the Matrix
Dudley Do-Right
A Life Apart: Hasidism in America
'Til There Was You
Mars Attacks!
If Lucy Fell
The First Wives Club
Extreme Measures
The Sunshine Boys
The Substance of Fire
Miami Rhapsody
Owen
Ed Wood
Hocus Pocus
Striking Distance
Honeymoon in Vegas
In the Best Interest of the Children
L.A. Story
The Ryan White Story
Life Under Water
Dadah Is Death
The Room Upstairs
Flight of the Navigator
Girls Just Want to Have Fun
Going for the Gold: The Bill Johnson Story
Footloose
Firstborn
The Almost Royal Family
Somewhere, Tomorrow
My Body, My Child
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