About
Sarah Jessica Parker
Overview
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.
Known for
Acting |
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2024 | Happy Clothes: A Film About Patricia Field | Actor | N/A N/A |
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2023 | Hot Potato: The Story of The Wiggles | Actor | Self (archive footage) (uncredited) | 59 Average |
2022 | Grit & Grace: The Fight for the American Dream | Actor | Narrator | N/A N/A |
2022 | Hocus Pocus 2 | Actor | Sarah Sanderson | 69 Fair |
2022 | And Just Like That… The Documentary | Actor | Self | 59 Average |
2021 | And Just Like That… | Actor | Carrie Bradshaw | 73 Good |
2020 | In Search of the Sanderson Sisters: A Hocus Pocus Hulaween Takeover | Actor | Sarah Sanderson | 59 Average |
2020 | One World: Together at Home | Actor | Self | 59 Average |
2019 | What She Said: The Art of Pauline Kael | Actor | Pauline's Voice Over | 59 Average |
2018 | Here and Now | Actor | Vivienne | 58 Average |
2018 | Hocus Pocus 25th Anniversary Halloween Bash | Actor | Self | 60 Fair |
2018 | The Times of Bill Cunningham | Actor | Narrator (voice) | N/A N/A |
2017 | Broadway: The Next Generation | Actor | Self | 58 Average |
2016 | Divorce | Actor | Frances DuFresne | 66 Fair |
2016 | All Roads Lead to Rome | Actor | Maggie | 56 Average |
2015 | Bridget Everett: Gynecological Wonder | Actor | Self | 58 Average |
2013 | Mademoiselle C | Actor | Self | 58 Average |
2013 | Propaganda | Actor | Self (archive footage) | 59 Average |
2013 | Escape from Planet Earth | Actor | Kira Supernova (voice) | 57 Average |
2013 | $ellebrity | Actor | Self | 59 Average |
2011 | New Year's Eve | Actor | Kim Doyle | 58 Average |
2011 | I Don't Know How She Does It | Actor | Kate Reddy | 55 Average |
2010 | Sex and the City 2 | Actor | Carrie Bradshaw | 60 Fair |
2010 | One Night Only: Barbra Streisand and Quartet at the Village Vanguard | Actor | Audience | 59 Average |
2009 | Did You Hear About the Morgans? | Actor | Meryl Morgan | 55 Average |
2009 | Waking Sleeping Beauty | Actor | Self (archive footage) | 61 Fair |
2008 | Sex and the City | Actor | Carrie Bradshaw | 64 Fair |
2008 | Smart People | Actor | Janet Hartigan | 58 Average |
2007 | ShowBusiness: The Road to Broadway | Actor | Self | 59 Average |
2007 | Sesame Beginnings: Moving Together | Actor | Herself | N/A N/A |
2007 | Spinning Into Butter | Actor | Sarah Daniels | 58 Average |
2006 | Life After Tomorrow | Actor | Self | 59 Average |
2006 | Strangers with Candy | Actor | Peggy Callas | 58 Average |
2006 | Failure to Launch | Actor | Paula | 58 Average |
2005 | The Family Stone | Actor | Meredith Morton | 61 Fair |
2004 | Ed Wood: Pie Plates Over Hollywood | Actor | Self (archive footage) | 59 Average |
2004 | Ed Wood: Let's Shoot This @#!% | Actor | Self | N/A N/A |
2004 | TV Land Moguls | Actor | N/A N/A |
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2003 | Off the Record: The 9/11 Election | Actor | Self | N/A N/A |
2002 | Life Without Dick | Actor | Colleen Gibson | 57 Average |
2001 | America | A Tribute to Heroes | Actor | Self | 59 Average |
2000 | State and Main | Actor | Claire Wellesley | 60 Fair |
2000 | Sex and the Matrix | Actor | Carrie Bradshaw | 59 Average |
1999 | Dudley Do-Right | Actor | Nell Fenwick | 54 Average |
1998 | A Life Apart: Hasidism in America | Actor | Narrator | 59 Average |
1998 | Sex and the City | Actor | Carrie Bradshaw | 73 Good |
1997 | Til There Was You | Actor | Francesca Lanfield | 57 Average |
1996 | Mars Attacks! | Actor | Nathalie Lake | 63 Fair |
1996 | Extreme Measures | Actor | Jodie Trammel | 59 Average |
1996 | The First Wives Club | Actor | Shelly Stewart | 63 Fair |
1996 | The Substance of Fire | Actor | Sarah Geldhart | 59 Average |
1996 | The Sunshine Boys | Actor | Nancy Clark | 58 Average |
1996 | If Lucy Fell | Actor | Lucy Ackerman | 58 Average |
1995 | R.E.M.: Rough Cut | Actor | Herself | 59 Average |
1995 | Miami Rhapsody | Actor | Gwyn | 58 Average |
1995 | Owen | Actor | N/A N/A |
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1994 | Ed Wood | Actor | Dolores Fuller | 71 Good |
1993 | Striking Distance | Actor | Jo Christman | 58 Average |
1993 | Hocus Pocus | Actor | Sarah Sanderson | 68 Fair |
1992 | Honeymoon in Vegas | Actor | Betsy / Donna | 57 Average |
1992 | In the Best Interest of the Children | Actor | Callie Cain | 58 Average |
1991 | L.A. Story | Actor | SanDeE | 61 Fair |
1990 | Equal Justice | Actor | Jo Ann Harris | 69 Fair |
1989 | Life Under Water | Actor | Amy-Beth | 58 Average |
1989 | The Ryan White Story | Actor | Laura | 59 Average |
1989 | Twist of Fate | Actor | Miriam | 69 Fair |
1988 | Dadah Is Death | Actor | Rachel Goldman | 59 Average |
1987 | A Year in the Life | Actor | Kay Erickson | 69 Fair |
1987 | The Room Upstairs | Actor | Mandy Janovic | 58 Average |
1986 | A Year in the Life | Actor | Kay Erickson | 70 Good |
1986 | Flight of the Navigator | Actor | Carolyn McAdams | 65 Fair |
1985 | Going for the Gold: The Bill Johnson Story | Actor | Maggie | 59 Average |
1985 | Girls Just Want to Have Fun | Actor | Janey Glenn | 59 Average |
1984 | Firstborn | Actor | Lisa | 58 Average |
1984 | The Almost Royal Family | Actor | Suzanne Henderson | N/A N/A |
1984 | Footloose | Actor | Rusty | 65 Fair |
1983 | Somewhere, Tomorrow | Actor | Lori Anderson | 58 Average |
1982 | Square Pegs | Actor | Patty Greene | 69 Fair |
1982 | My Body, My Child | Actor | Katy | 59 Average |
Honorable but Broken: EMS in Crisis | Actor | Narrator | N/A N/A |
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Hocus Pocus 3 | Actor | Sarah Sanderson | N/A N/A |
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Production |
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2022 | The Estate | Production | Producer | 58 Average |
2022 | And Just Like That… The Documentary | Production | Executive Producer | 59 Average |
2021 | And Just Like That… | Production | Executive Producer | 73 Good |
2018 | Here and Now | Production | Producer | 58 Average |
2010 | Work of Art: The Next Great Artist | Production | Producer | 69 Fair |
2010 | Sex and the City 2 | Production | Producer | 60 Fair |
2009 | Washingtonienne | Production | Executive Producer | N/A N/A |
2008 | Sex and the City | Production | Producer | 64 Fair |