Real Name : Sarah Jessica Parker
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Sarah Jessica Parker was born March 25, 1965, in Nelsonville, Ohio to parents Stephen Parker and Barbra Forste (who remarried Paul Forste after divorcing Sarah's father). After her mother wed Forste, she had four more children, bringing the total to eight. Sarah Jessica now had 3 full siblings and 4 half siblings. Trained in singing and ballet, Sarah was cast in the Broadway production of "The Innocents", which prompted her family to relocate to New Jersey. Already a professional performer (she studied at the American Ballet School and the Professional Children's School), Sarah was cast in "The Sound of Music" (along with four of her siblings), and landed the lead in the Broadway run of "Annie". After a year as the free-spirited orphan, Sarah attended Dwight Morrow High School, while continuing to add more credits to her acting resume. She landed a role in the made-for-TV movie _My Body, My Child (1982) (TV)_ (qv), before being cast as one of the lead roles in the 1982 sitcom _"Square Pegs" (1982)_ (qv), as high-schooler Patty Green. Once a graduate, Sarah decided to pursue a full-time acting career rather than further her education. Since _"Square Pegs" (1982)_ (qv) did not last more than a year, Sarah moved on to supporting film roles in movies such as _Footloose (1984)_ (qv), _Firstborn (1984)_ (qv), and the lead role in the teenage film _Girls Just Want to Have Fun (1985)_ (qv). Sarah was having lots of fun, although she had yet to land a star-turning role. After more television appearances in series and made-for-TV movies including _"A Year in the Life" (1986)_ (qv), _The Room Upstairs (1987) (TV)_ (qv) and _Dadah Is Death (1988) (TV)_ (qv), Sarah finally landed the role of 'Steve Martin (I)' (qv)'s bubbly lover in the 1991 comedy _L.A. Story (1991)_ (qv). More substantial film roles soon followed, starting with a role opposite 'Nicolas Cage' (qv) in _Honeymoon in Vegas (1992)_ (qv) (which foreshadowed her comedic talent), _Hocus Pocus (1993)_ (qv) and _Ed Wood (1994)_ (qv). A big 'Woody Allen' (qv) fan, she starred opposite the renowned filmmaker in the television movie _The Sunshine Boys (1996) (TV)_ (qv), and that same year, she landed a starring role in _Miami Rhapsody (1995)_ (qv). 1996 was a film intensive year with roles in _The First Wives Club (1996)_ (qv), _If Lucy Fell (1996)_ (qv), and _Mars Attacks! (1996)_ (qv). All the while making a name for herself in film, Sarah was gaining respect as a theater actress, with her lead role as a dog (hard to imagine, but true) in the off-Broadway "Sylvia", and her Broadway roles in "How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying" (starring her present husband, 'Matthew Broderick (I)' (qv)), and the Tony-Award nominated "Once Upon a Mattress". But Sarah's star has shot up since her portrayal of Manhattan sex-columnist Carrie Bradshaw in the HBO series _"Sex and the City" (1998)_ (qv). Sarah's Golden Globe Best Actress victory in 2000 only underscores the fact that she plays the role of Carrie as though it were literally written for her. Sarah has been happily married to fellow actor 'Matthew Broderick (I)' (qv) for quite a while now. Before the marriage, she dated 'Robert Downey Jr.' (qv) (who she also lived with), and the late 'John Kennedy Jr.' (qv) When not serving as lead actress and producer of _"Sex and the City" (1998)_ (qv), Sarah is a member of Hollywood's Women's Political Committee, and is UNICEF's representative for the Performing Arts.
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Sarah Jessica Parker
- Escape from Planet Earth
- The Ivy Chronicles
- Married and Cheating
- $ellebrity
- Disconnect: Cell Phones & Cancer
- Lovelace
- Hamish & Andy's Gap Year
- Love Walked In
- I Don't Know How She Does It
- Crown Oaks Day
- From Bomont to the Big Apple: An Interview with Sarah Jessica Parker
- The Jonathan Ross Show
- New Year's Eve
- The Late Bloomer's Revolution
- America in Primetime
- Anderson
- Remembering Willard
- Sex and the City Movie Special
- Sex and the City 2
- Janela Indiscreta
- Work of Art: The Next Great Artist
- Daybreak
- The 82nd Annual Academy Awards
- Sex and the City 2: Premiere Special
- Who Do You Think You Are?
- Bambi Verleihung 2010
- Live from Studio Five
- Watch What Happens: Live
- Mark at the Movies
- Glee
- The 81st Annual Academy Awards
- Streisand: Live in Concert
- Late Night with Jimmy Fallon
- The 7PM Project
- Did You Hear About the Morgans?
- 2008 MLB All-Star Game
- Sex and the City
- Reinventando Hollywood
- Every Little Step
- The Making of 'Sex and the City'
- Valentino: The Last Emperor
- 2008 MTV Movie Awards
- Sex and the City: A Conversation with Sarah Jessica Parker and Michael Patrick King
- Sex and the City: The Party That Never Was
- Sex and the City: The Wedding Dress Photo Shoot
- Smart People
- Sexo en serie
- The Fabulous Fashion of 'Sex and the City'
- Spinning Into Butter
- Stand Up to Cancer
- Italoamericano
- The 60th Primetime Emmy Awards
- Live from the Red Carpet: Sex and the City
- Tellement People
- El último golpe de Tony Soprano
- Slammer
- Memoirs of a Cigarette
- The 64th Annual Golden Globe Awards
- The Graham Norton Show
- Sesame Beginnings: Moving Together
- ShowBusiness: The Road to Broadway
- The Film Society of Lincoln Center Annual Gala Tribute to Diane Keaton
- The Family Stone: Behind the Scenes
- Cosmetic Surgery Nightmares
- Life After Tomorrow
- Failure to Launch
- ¿De qué te ríes?
- The 63rd Annual Golden Globe Awards
- The Family Stone: Q&A Session with the Cast
- Strangers with Candy
- The Family Stone
- 11th Annual Screen Actors Guild Awards
- Favouritism
- New York 360º
- Made in Hollywood
- Loops!
- ¿Existe Sexo en Nueva York?
- The 46th Annual Grammy Awards
- The 56th Annual Primetime Emmy Awards
- TV Land's Top Ten
- The 61st Annual Golden Globe Awards
- CMT Insider
- Broadway: The American Musical
- The 58th Annual Tony Awards
- Project Runway
- Sex and the City: A Farewell
- TV Land Moguls
- The 60th Annual Golden Globe Awards
- The 57th Annual Tony Awards
- The 55th Annual Primetime Emmy Awards
- Elvis Lives
- Sex at 24 Frames Per Second
- Heroes of Comedy: Women on Top
- Sunday Morning Shootout
- Great Women of Television Comedy
- Ellen: The Ellen DeGeneres Show
- Life Without Dick
- Pie Plates Over Hollywood
- The 59th Annual Golden Globe Awards
- Playboy: Inside the Playboy Mansion
- Friday Night with Jonathan Ross
- The Big Show
- The 73rd Annual Academy Awards
- 5th Annual Prism Awards
- America: A Tribute to Heroes
- 7th Annual Screen Actors Guild Awards ]
- The 58th Annual Golden Globe Awards
- The 55th Annual Tony Awards
- 6th Annual Screen Actors Guild Awards
- State and Main
- Sex and the Matrix
- The 57th Annual Golden Globe Awards
- 2000 MTV Movie Awards
- The 5th Annual GQ Men of the Year Awards
- Breakfast
- New York Magazine Awards Show
- Loose Women
- The Directors
- Dudley Do-Right
- The 56th Annual Golden Globe Awards
- The 53rd Annual Tony Awards
- The 51st Annual Primetime Emmy Awards
- The Late Late Show with Craig Kilborn
- Stories from My Childhood
- Bravo Profiles: The Entertainment Business
- Divas Live: An Honors Concert for VH1 Save the Music
- Saturday Night Live: The Best of Chris Farley
- Comic Relief VIII
- The View
- MTV Video Music Awards 1997
- 'Til There Was You
- Corazón de...
- 1997 VH1 Fashion Awards
- A Life Apart: Hasidism in America
- The GQ Men of the Year Awards
- The 51st Annual Tony Awards
- The Gift of Song
- Caiga quien caiga
- The Rosie O'Donnell Show
- The Daily Show
- E! True Hollywood Story
- This Week
- Extreme Measures
- If Lucy Fell
- The First Wives Club
- The 50th Annual Tony Awards
- The Substance of Fire
- The Sunshine Boys
- Mars Attacks!
- Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade
- Access Hollywood
- The 49th Annual Tony Awards
- R.E.M.: Rough Cut
- Miami Rhapsody
- The 67th Annual Academy Awards
- Owen
- Dennis Miller Live
- Inside the Actors Studio
- Ed Wood
- Space Ghost Coast to Coast
- Extra
- Exclusiv - Das Star-Magazin
- Hocus Pocus: Begin the Magic
- Striking Distance
- Late Show with David Letterman
- The 50th Annual Golden Globe Awards
- The 65th Annual Academy Awards
- Hocus Pocus
- Late Night with Conan O'Brien
- GMTV
- 1993 MTV Movie Awards
- Intimate Portrait
- The Tonight Show with Jay Leno
- HBO First Look
- Gomorron
- The Ben Stiller Show
- Getaway
- The Larry Sanders Show
- In the Best Interest of the Children
- Honeymoon in Vegas
- L.A. Story
- The Charlie Rose Show
- Equal Justice
- Pursuit
- The Ryan White Story
- The Arsenio Hall Show
- Live with Regis and Kathie Lee
- Get Out the Vote
- Dadah Is Death
- The Starlight Annual Foundation Benefit
- A Year in the Life
- The Room Upstairs
- Biography
- Flight of the Navigator
- The Oprah Winfrey Show
- The 1986 Jewish National Funds Annual Tree of Life Awards
- The Alan King Show
- Larry King Live
- Going for the Gold: The Bill Johnson Story
- Girls Just Want to Have Fun
- Showbiz Today
- Firstborn
- Cinema 3
- Footloose
- Somewhere, Tomorrow
- Hotel
- Square Pegs
- Broadway Plays Washington on Kennedy Center Tonight
- My Body, My Child
- Late Night with David Letterman
- Entertainment Tonight
- American Playhouse
- 3-2-1 Contact
- Drawing Power
- All-Star Birthday Party for Bob Hope... at Sea
- Good Morning America
- Saturday Night Live
- The Robert MacNeil Report
- The Little Match Girl
- ABC Afterschool Specials
- Film '72
- Evening at Pops
- Sesame Street
- The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson
- Today
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- * Appeared in "How to Succeed in Business without Really Trying" on
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- A mole on her chin
- Frequently plays rich modern women from New York
- Designer high heels
- Sparkling blue eyes
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- Thank you. I've never won anything in my life. - on winning her 2000 Golden Globe Award for _"Sex and the City" (1998)_ (qv).
- I tell my friends married life is boring, but that's just a fun thing to say to make single people feel better.
- Sarah Jessica is fine, Sarah, SJP, SJ, hey you, anything. [on how to address her]
- The hardest part of leaving the show [_"Sex and the City" (1998)_ (qv)] was this endless gypsy-like life that I'm back into, where it's like being the new kid in school all the time, which for some people is very easy but for me is not. I don't really like change, and I would like everything to be the same constantly, except that I love being terrified.
- Celebrity and the media are reliant on each other - always have been - but we have lost the elegance in that relationship, somehow.
- Fashion is a part of my work. I feel a responsibility to be presentable, to dress up if the occasion calls for it. But, really, fashion does not play that big a role in my life these days.
- One of the things that's great about New York is that it is not a one-industry town. It has education, academia, the service industry, arts, publishing, theater, politics, fashion, finance, as well as movie-making. There are so many people who are cogs in the great wheel of the city that a less bright light is shone on our lives. It still exists - there are always paparazzi at our house - but being a public person feels less like a business than it does in LA. And you have to approach it differently. I can't hide behind gates, or in a car, but if I can get a few yards from my front door, I can still get lost in a crowd. I am always moments, just moments, from obscurity on a crowded street in New York.
- "I get the feeling people are disappointed with me because I don't have the answers for them. I have to remind them that I don't have a Ph.D. in sex or counseling.
- Regarding her new Steve & Barry line of affordable conservative womenswear: "There's not going to be any inappropriate midriff showing, regardless of your age. I really don't care for it. I feel like, as a culture, we have seen enough damage done by it. It's provocative in a way that I just don't feel comfortable with."
- As a woman, I have an inherent need to be all things to all people, to make certain everybody's taken care of. I know I can't sustain that level all the time, so I'm finding the proper balance and it's made me infinitely happier.
- Pat knows the historical context of clothes, the periods of costumes and what century is what. But there are no rules with Pat when it comes to fashion. It's liberating. [on working with fashion designer and costumer 'Pat Field (I)' (qv) on _"Sex and the City" (1998)_ (qv).] (Harper's Bazaar - 2004 - "Sarah Jessica's Next Step" by 'Wendy Wasserstein' (qv))
- [on the fact that she adored every costume of Carrie Bradshaw's on _"Sex and the City" (1998)_ (qv).] The hits and misses. It was great fun to make mistakes and also be victorious. If I have a daughter, perhaps I'll give the clothes to her and tell her the extraordinary circumstances under which I received them. (Harper's Bazaar - 2004 - "Sarah Jessica's Next Step" by 'Wendy Wasserstein' (qv))
- I still want to be an actor for hire, but I can also see myself as a hard-driving producer. A person can have both, and I don't think you have to be male to do that. I understand why a lot of actresses are producing now; I understand how seductive it is and how hard it is not to have control. It's like if you were keeping kosher and then one day you had... bacon! You'd just be like: This is nuts! I can't never have suckling pig! I have to have it! Or if you flew coach all the time and then one day you got on, like, Cathay Pacific First Class, where there's a whole apartment on the plane that's yours? You couldn't possibly go back to coach! You're ruined! [on becoming a producer of _"Sex and the City" (1998)_ (qv), in which she stars.] (Vogue - August 2003 - "The Busiest Girl In Town" by 'Steven Meisel' (qv))
- I kind of enjoy the idea that you can be a lady and be slightly titillating and you don't have to take all your clothes off. (Vogue - August 2003 - "The Busiest Girl In Town" by 'Steven Meisel' (qv))
- I have a team of style experts for being Carrie, but I am not Carrie. I'm not even much of a shopper. I don't feel I need a lot of clothes. But I work in an industry where appearance is everything and sometimes I have to work hard at looking good.
- When I go to a premiere I like to borrow lovely clothes and shoes from designers. It's like the library: if you return them in good condition, you get to borrow more. I'm very lucky.
- I dress like most mothers - quickly!
- You don't want to see me topless.
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