Sarah Jessica Parker
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Sarah Jessica Parker

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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).

In 2012, Parker returned to television for the first time since Sex and the City, portraying Isabelle Wright in three episodes of the FOX series Glee. She starred as Frances Dufresne in the HBO series Divorce (2016–2019), for which she was nominated for a Golden Globe Award. Since 2005, she has run her own production company, Pretty Matches, which has been creating content for HBO and other channels.

Films Featuring Sarah Jessica Parker

Mars Attacks!

19966.4

Ed Wood

19947.5

L.A. Story

19916.5

Footloose

19846.7

If Lucy Fell

19965.4

Flight of the Navigator

19867.0

Hocus Pocus

19937.0

The First Wives Club

19966.7

Sex and the City

20086.5

A Life Apart: Hasidism in America

19985.9

Striking Distance

19935.9

State and Main

20006.3

Extreme Measures

19966.0

Sex and the Matrix

20006.7

Life Without Dick

20023.7

Failure to Launch

20065.8

Did You Hear About the Morgans?

20095.4

The Family Stone

20056.3

Spinning Into Butter

20096.3

Smart People

20085.9

'Til There Was You

19974.0

Honeymoon in Vegas

19925.7

Strangers with Candy

20065.7

New Year's Eve

20115.9

Sex and the City 2

20106.0

Girls Just Want to Have Fun

19856.1

Miami Rhapsody

19955.3

Dudley Do-Right

19994.1

Escape from Planet Earth

20135.8

Somewhere, Tomorrow

19835.1

I Don't Know How She Does It

20115.2

And Just Like That... The Documentary

20226.7

Firstborn

19846.2

The Ryan White Story

19896.5

Off the Record: The 9/11 Election

Off the Record: The 9/11 Election

2003

The Sunshine Boys

19965.0

The Substance of Fire

19966.4

The Room Upstairs

19874.8

Going for the Gold: The Bill Johnson Story

19856.0

Waking Sleeping Beauty

20097.2

The Almost Royal Family

1984

Hocus Pocus 3

All Roads Lead to Rome

20165.0

Hot Potato: The Story of The Wiggles

20238.1

In the Best Interest of the Children

19925.3

Broadway: The Next Generation

Grit & Grace: The Fight for the American Dream

Grit & Grace: The Fight for the American Dream

20221.0

Dadah Is Death

19885.0

My Body, My Child

19829.0

ShowBusiness: The Road to Broadway

20077.2

Life Under Water

19895.6

$ellebrity

20135.8

Honorable but Broken: EMS in Crisis

Owen

19959.0

Happy Clothes: A Film About Patricia Field

2024

Here and Now

20185.3

Sesame Beginnings: Moving Together

2007

One Night Only: Barbra Streisand and Quartet at the Village Vanguard

20107.1

Hocus Pocus 25th Anniversary Halloween Bash

20187.0

What She Said: The Art of Pauline Kael

20196.7

R.E.M.: Rough Cut

19956.5

The Times of Bill Cunningham

2018

Ed Wood: Pie Plates Over Hollywood

20047.9

Ed Wood: Let's Shoot This @#!%

2004

America | A Tribute to Heroes

20016.5

Bridget Everett: Gynecological Wonder

20152.5

In Search of the Sanderson Sisters: A Hocus Pocus Hulaween Takeover

20207.1

Life After Tomorrow

20066.5

Mademoiselle C

20135.6

Hocus Pocus 2

20227.1

One World: Together at Home

20207.1

Sex and the City: A Farewell

8.5

VH1: Divas Live

19987.9

The New Yorker at 100

20257.0

From Bomont to the Big Apple: An Interivew with Sarah Jessica Parker

2011

"Footloose": Remembering Willard

2011

Sex and the City: A Conversation with Sarah Jessica Parker and Michael Patrick King

2008

Sex and the City: The Party That Never Was

2008

Sex and the City: The Wedding Dress Photo Shoot

2008

The Fabulous Fashion of 'Sex and the City'

2008

The Making of 'Sex and the City'

Live from the Red Carpet: Sex and the City

2008