Mary Louise Parker Uncensored
Mary Louise Parker has appeared in over three dozen big-screen movies, made-for-TV films and stage plays since she began working professionally in the late 1980s. She was cited as one of 12 “Promising New Actors of 1990″ in John Willis’ Screen World, and won the Clarence Derwent Award and Theatre World Award for her stage work in Prelude to a Kiss that same year. She also picked up her first Tony nomination for the role.
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Parker has since earned several major acting nominations and a handful of awards. In 1997, she won the OBIE for her exhilarating performance as a victim of child abuse in the play, How I Learned to Drive, and received the prestigious Best Actress Tony Award for Proof in 2001. She earned an Emmy nod in 2002 for her appearances on NBC’s The West Wing, and was nominated for a SAG and Golden Globe Award for her part in the HBO miniseries Angels in America (she took home the Golden Globe in 2004).
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Also in 2004, Parker’s body of work was honored by the Philadelphia Film Festival, where she was presented with a prize for Artistic Achievement. Few (living) actors can claim to have been the inspiration for a song, but you can count Mary-Louise among the tiny group that do. The Counting Crows’ song “Butterfly in Reverse” from their Hard Candy album (2002) was written for the actress.
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