Sarah Jessica Parker Biography And Filmography:

A former child actor who portrayed "Annie" in the smash hit Broadway musical for two years before transitioning effortlessly into to a hectic and wide-ranging acting career, Sarah Jessica Parker has worked non-stop and shown her range and talent on stage, the big screen and television. A short blonde with elegant curly hair, dazzling eyes and a charming smile, Sarah Jessica Parker watched her image change noticeably through the years, from her role of scholarly Patty Greene on the young schoolgirl sitcom "Square Pegs" (1982-83) to that of proactive relationship columnist Carrie Bradshaw, a single women steering Manhattan's dating nightmare, on the much-admired series "Sex and the City" (1998- ). 

Although "Square Pegs" was Parker's first taste of nationwide attention, she actually made her television introduction ten years earlier, with a role in "The Little Match Girl". The young actress followed up with stage and theater work, making her debut in "The Innocents" in 1976, directed by Harold Pinter. Parker then appeared up with "Annie" after her family moved to New York and played the sister of future "Sex and the City" co-star Cynthia Nixon in the television movie "My Body, My Child" (1982) starring Vanessa Redgrave.

Sarah Jessica Parker made the transition to feature films beginning in 1979, when she appeared in "Rich Kids". Five years later, she accepted roles in "Footloose" with Kevin Bacon, "Firstborn" with Robert Downey Jr. and "Somewhere Tomorrow" and continued to appear in television movies including co-starring roles in ABC's "The Almost Royal Family" (1984) and CBS' "Going For the Gold: The Bill Johnson Story" (1985). Parker was remarkably bubbly in her starring role opposite Helen Hunt as a young teen who wants to enter a dance contest against the wishes of her father in the musical comedy "Girls Just Want to Have Fun" (1985). Parker was featured the following year in "Flight of the Navigator", a sweet story set in 1978 about a boy who is moved 8 years into the future and has an adventure with the alien ship that is responsible. 

Parker then made her first attempt into more mature roles, cast as newlywed Kay Ericson Gardner, an happy young woman who marries into the family around which the miniseries and subsequent weekly drama "A Year in the Life" centered. While the show received good reviews, it did not to attract a large enough audience for NBC to order a second season. Parker kept busy with television movies and stage work before being hired for the role of a driven attorney on ABC's legal drama "Equal Justice". Like "A Year in the Life", this much-admired series didn't last beyond its first season.

Cast mostly as brainy or intense characters, Parker saw praise for her cleverly comic role opposite Steve Martin in "L.A. Story" (1991). Sarah moved to leading role status for "Honeymoon in Vegas" (1992) starring Nicolas Cage, and played the sexiest of three nutty witches in the Disney comic fantasy "Hocus Pocus" (1993). Again showing her flexibility, Parker was featured next to Bruce Willis in the action thriller "Striking Distance" and appeared in Johnny Depp's "Ed Wood" with Patricia Arquette. Parker then had one of her best roles as a young woman afraid of commitment in "Miami Rhapsody" (1995) with Antonio Banderas. 

Parker then returned to Broadway to co-star with future husband Matthew Broderick in the musical revival "How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying". Parker also appeared as the hateful social climbing girlfriend in "The First Wives Club", a colorful television host in "Mars Attacks!", starring Glenn Close and Jack Nicholson, then as the nurse stuck between fighting doctors Gene Hackman and Hugh Grant in "Extreme Measures", an unwed psychotherapist looking for love in "If Lucy Fell" with Scarlett Johansson and Ben Stiller, and as the daughter of a Jewish publisher in the film version of "The Substance of Fire", a role which she earlier played on stage. 

In 1998, Sarah Jessica Parker returned to series television in the trendy comedy "Sex and the City,” winning awards for her role as the steadfastly independent but psychologically needy Carrie. While the series followed a very specific group of women with extreme lifestyles hugely different then those of the audience, the universal themes of sex, love and friendship hit a familiar mark with viewers, who loved the series' openness and feeling. Starring alongside Kim Cattral, Kristin Davis and Cynthia Nixon, Sarah Jessica Parker shone as the glue for the group, and won a number of award nominations for her smooth performance as the extroverted but introspective columnist--Parker would take home the Emmy for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Comedy Series in 2001, and win Golden Globes for Best Performance by an Actress in a Television Series Musical or Comedy in 2000, 2001, 2002 and 2004. 

Parker would at last win the Emmy for Outstanding Performance by an Actress in a Comedy in 2004 for the dearly loved series' final season. Thanks to her stylish character's fashion savvy, Parker also become one of Hollywood's hottest sexy celebrities of the late 1990s and early 2000s, known for her exceptional taste, new age accessories and always magnificent footwear. 

Parker then appeared in a leading turn in the little seen romantic comedy “Life Without Dick” (2002), a  romantic comedy about a woman who innocently falls in love with a hit man (Harry Connick, Jr.) hired to kill her intolerable boyfriend (Johnny Knoxville). Parker next appeared in “The Family Stone” (2005) with Claire Danes, playing the high-powered girlfriend of the oldest son in a strange family who’s invited to their annual holiday gathering and causes embarrassment, misunderstanding and eventually aggression.

Parker then returned to comedy starring alongside Matthew McConaughey in "Failure to Launch" (2006) about a thirty something slacker who suspects his parents of setting him up with his dream girl so he'll finally vacate their home. More comedy followed with "Smart People" (2008) with Dennis Quaid and Ellen Page, where into the life of a widowed professor comes a new love and an unexpected visit from his adopted brother. 

Then it finally happened, the long awaited movie based on the television show "Sex and the City: The Movie" (2008), the sequel boasts all the original cast members from the television series, but unfortunately, one of the old group is killed off. Parker wrapped her year with the comedy "A Family Affair" (2008) where Parker plays a real estate agent who has a one-night stand with a distinguished older man. After becoming engaged to someone else and heading off to meet her fiancé's family, she discovers her future father-in-law was her bedmate.

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