Molly Parker

Molly Parker
Parker in Vancouver, March 2009
Born	June 14, 1972 (1972-06-14) (age 39) Maple Ridge, British Columbia, Canada

Molly Parker (born 14 June 1972)^[1] is a Canadian actress, notable for her roles in Canadian and American independent films and the HBO television series Deadwood.

Parker won a Genie Award in 1997 as Best Actress in a Leading Role for Kissed. She was nominated for an Independent Spirit Award as best female lead in 2001 for her role in The Center of the World and has twice been nominated for a Genie Award as best supporting actress, winning in 2002 for Bruce Sweeney's Last Wedding.

Life and career

Parker was born in Maple Ridge, British Columbia, to parents who owned a retail seafood store. Parker and her younger brother Henry were raised on a commune in Pitt Meadows, B.C., which she described as "a hippie farm", and she began acting after 13 years at ballet school. After her uncle's agent took her on, she had parts in various Canadian television roles before studying with Vancouver's Gastown Actors' Studio after she graduated from high school.

Her breakthrough role was as the daughter of a lesbian military officer in the TV-movie Serving in Silence; she then won a Gemini nomination for her performance in the TV-movie Paris or Somewhere. She later won the Genie Award for best actress for playing a necrophiliac in Lynne Stopkewich's 1996 film Kissed; the controversial film served as her breakthrough to more mainstream films.

Parker has received much critical praise for her bravery in tackling difficult roles^{[citation needed]} - the aforementioned role in Kissed; as a sympathetic lap dancer and paid escort in The Center of the World; and a female rabbi, Ari Hoffman, in Six Feet Under. In 2008, she starred in the CBS show Swingtown. She filmed a pilot for a series called The Wonderful Maladys, in which she was set to star as Sarah Michelle Gellar's older sister, but the series was not picked up.

She starred in the video for "Cold Love", a song by Cursive and The Good Life frontman Tim Kasher.

Parker will join the cast of the NBC mid-season show, The Firm, based on the 1991 novel by John Grisham and the 1993 film starring Tom Cruise. She will portray Abby McDeere, wife of Mitch McDeere.^[2] She will also make several appearances on the sixth season of the Showtime series Dexter.

Family

Parker is married to director, writer, and producer Matt Bissonnette. The couple have a son, William Strummer Bissonnette (born 13 October 2006, Los Angeles, California).

Filmography

• My Son Johnny (1991) (TV)
• Hate Mail (1992)
• Anything for Love (1993)
• The Substitute (1993) (TV)
• Paris or Somewhere (1994) (TV)
• One More Mountain (1994) (TV)
• Little Criminals (1995)
• Serving in Silence: The Margarethe Cammermeyer Story (1995) (TV)
• Falling from the Sky: Flight 174 (1995) (TV)
• Wings of Courage (1995)
• The Ranger, the Cook and a Hole in the Sky (1995) (TV)
• Last of the Dogmen (1995)
• Deceived by Trust: A Moment of Truth Movie (1995) (TV)
• Ebbie (1995) (TV)
• Good Things Too (1996)
• The Chain (1996)
• Kissed (1996)
• Hard Core Logo (1996)
• Titanic (1996) (TV)
• Contagious (1997) (TV)
• Bliss (1997)
• Intensity (1997) (TV)
• Under Heaven (1998)
• Twitch City (1998) (TV series)
• From Morning On I Waited Yesterday (1998)
• Ladies Room (1997)
• Wonderland (1999)
• The Five Senses (1999)
• Looking for Leonard (1999)
• Sunshine (1999)
• The Intruder (1999)
• Waking the Dead (2000)
• Suspicious River (2000)
• The War Bride (2001)
• The Center of the World (2001)
• Last Wedding (2001)
• Rare Birds (2001)
• Men with Brooms (2002)
• Marion Bridge (2002)
• Max (2002)
• Pure (2002)
• Break a Leg (2003)
• Iron Jawed Angels (2004) (TV)
• Deadwood (2004–06) (TV series)
• The Good Shepherd (2006)
• Nine Lives (2005)
• Hollywoodland (2006)
• Who Loves the Sun (2006)
• The Wicker Man (2006)
• The Confessor (2006)
• Swingtown (2008) (TV series)
• The Road (2009 film)
• Party Down (2009) (TV series)
• Human Target (2010) (TV series)
• Shattered (2010) (TV series)
• Trigger (2010)
• Gone (2011) (Lifetime movie)
• That's What I Am (2011)
• Dexter (2011) (TV series)
• Hemingway & Gellhorn (2012) (TV)
• The Firm (2012) (TV series)

References

1. ^ In an interview for the October 2006 ELLE Canada, Parker stated that her birthday is in the middle of June, without specifying a date. She explained that the July date stems from an IMDb mistake that she had been trying to correct.
2. ^ Seidman, Robert. "Molly Parker ('Deadwood,' 'Swingtown') Joins Cast of NBC's New Legal Drama 'The Firm'". TV by the Numbers. http://tvbythenumbers.zap2it.com/2011/07/29/molly-parker-deadwood-swingtown-joins-cast-of-nbcs-new-legal-drama-the-firm/99220/. Retrieved July 29, 2011. 

External links

• Molly Parker at the Internet Movie Database

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Name	Parker, Molly
Alternative names
Short description	Actress
Date of birth	14 June 1972
Place of birth	Maple Ridge, British Columbia, Canada
Date of death
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