Sarah Jessica Parker
Born: March 25th 1965
Where: Nelsonville, Ohio, USA
Though they are both residents of New York and addicted to shoes, Sarah Jessica Parker has little in common with her most famous character - Carrie Bradshaw of the TV comedy Sex And The City.
The Ohio-born actress has always steered clear of drink and drugs, which is surprising given that she had a long-term relationship with serial hellraiser Robert Downey Jr and subsequently dated the late John Kennedy Jr.
Whether the liaisons prepared her for the romantic tribulations faced by Carrie or not, Parker has won four Golden Globes and an Emmy as the celebrated sex columnist.
She came to prominence in the 1982 TV show Square Pegs, which was squarely aimed at teens, as were her early big-screen ventures Footloose and Girls Just Want To Have Fun (which also starred a young Helen Hunt).
After a spate of TV movies in the mid-to-late 80s, Parker rebooted her cinema career as Steve Martin’s nutty girlfriend SanDeE* (as she spells it) in L.A. Story.
She cashed in with roles opposite Nicolas Cage in Honeymoon In Vegas, Bette Midler in 1993’s Hocus Pocus (and again in 1996 for The First Wives Club) and Bruce Willis in Striking Distance.
Her gift for lighter fare is evident, with director Tim Burton putting it to good use in both Ed Wood and Mars Attacks! and David Mamet casting her in his atypically jovial 2000 movie State And Main.
Parker regularly mixes theatre work with her movie and TV commitments. She has been directed by Harold Pinter on Broadway (opposite Claire Bloom in The Innocents) and starred alongside husband-since-1997 Matthew Broderick in How To Succeed In Business Without Really Trying.
During the early 2000s, Parker concentrated on stage work, Sex And The City, and parenthood (son James was born in 2002). But recently earned critical acclaim for the ensemble comedy The Family Stone.
Since Sex And The City took the small screen by storm in 1998 (ending in 2004), Mrs Broderick has also fronted an ad campaign for Gap and marketed ‘Lovely’, her own brand of perfume.
