Mary-Louise Parker
Mary-Louise Parker was born August 2 on the 2nd of August, 1964. She is an American actress. After her Broadway debut as Rita in Craig Lucas's Prelude to a Kiss in 1990 (for which she was awarded a Tony Award nomination), Parker was a household name for roles in films such as Grand Canyon (1991), Fried Green Tomatoes (1991), The Client (1994), Bullets over Broadway (1994), A Place for Annie (1994), Boys on the Side (1995), The Portrait of a Lady (1996) as well as The Maker (1997). Parker won the 2001 Tony Award as Best Actress in an Independent Film for her performance in David Auburn's Proof of Catherine Llewellyn. Between 2001 and 2006, she was a regular as Amy Gardner in the NBC television series The West Wing, for which she was nominated for the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actress in the Drama Series in 2002. Her role as Harper Pitt in HBO's acclaimed miniseries Angels in America in 2002 earned her the Primetime Emmy Award as well as a Golden Globe. ...