Mary Louise Parker Biography
Mary-Louise Parker is an American actress. Some of her better known works include Fried Green Tomatoes, Boys on the Side, Proof, The West Wing, Angels in America, and her current lead role on Showtime's television series Weeds portraying Nancy Botwin. For the past 9 years she has contributed columns to Esquire Magazine.In 2001,She appeared alongside Larry Bryggman in David Auburn's Proof on Broadway, for which she won a Tony Award.
She was born on 2 nd august 1964 in Fort Jackson, South Carolina, USA .Graduating from the North Carolina School of the Arts. She decided to test the waters in New York, and after work on the off-Broadway stage in the late 1980s, made her Broadway debut with "Prelude to a Kiss" in 1990 .Won Broadway's 2001 Tony Award as Best Actress (Play) for "Proof." She had previously received a Tony nomination in the same category in 1990 for "Prelude to a Kiss." Nominated for the 2005 Tony Award for "Reckless" (Best Performance by a Leading Actress in a Play).
Parker appeared in 2008's The Spiderwick Chronicles and in off-Broadway's Playwrights Horizons in the New York premiere of Dead Man's Cell Phone, a new play by Sarah Ruhl, alongside Drama Desk Award Winner Kathleen Chalfant.She is currently filming the Donna Vermeer film Les Passages alongside Julie Delpy. Following this, she will return to work on the fifth season of Weeds. In the beginning of 2009, Parker will take the lead role in the upcoming revival of the play Hedda Gabler.
At age 43, she adopted her second child, a baby girl from Africa, named Ash. This is apparently a shortened version of her birth name, Aberash. The girl's full name is Caroline Aberash Parker.Son, William Atticus, born 7 January 2004. Now also she is quite interested in acting and as fans of her we also hope that she does her roles well . She now quite a housewife