Sarah Jessica Parker

Actor

Sarah Jessica Parker is an American actress who starred in the cable TV show Sex and the City. Parker began acting professionally when she was eight years old, and by 1976 she was appearing in Broadway plays. In 1982 she landed a role in the television sitcom Square Pegs. Parker's breakthrough role in the movies came in 1991 when she co-starred with Steve Martin in the comedy L.A. Story; she followed that film with Honeymoon in Vegas (1992, with Nicolas Cage) and the dramady Ed Wood (2004, with Johnny Depp) among many other films. In 1998 she was given the lead role in the frankly sexual cable television series Sex and the City. The show gave Parker her signature role as Carrie, the romance-happy diarist and leader of a group of four libidinous single women in Manhattan. The show ran for six seasons on HBO, from 1998-2004, and co-starred Cynthia Nixon, Kim Cattrall and Kristin Davis. After the show ended Parker returned to feature film roles, including the ensemble comedy The Family Stone (2005, with Rachel McAdams and Diane Keaton) and the romantic comedy Failure to Launch (2006, with Matthew McConaughey).

Extra credit: Parker married actor Matthew Broderick, in 1997. Their son James was born on 28 October 2002... Parker twice won Emmy Awards as outstanding lead actress in a comedy series for Sex In The City: in 2001 and 2004.