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Sarah Jessica Parker (born March 25, 1965) is an internationally recognized Golden Globe and Emmy-winning American actress, with a portfolio of both television, movie, and theatre performances. She may be best known for her role as newspaper relationship columnist Carrie Bradshaw on the HBO television series Sex and the City.

Early life and career

Parker was born in Nelsonville, Ohio to Stephen Parker, a Jewish American businessman, and Barbara, who may also have Jewish ancestry. Her parents divorced early on in Parker's life and her mother remarried Paul Forste, a truck driver. Parker grew up with her mother, stepfather and seven siblings. As a young girl, she trained in singing and ballet, soon being cast in the Broadway production of The Innocents. Her family moved to Cincinnati, Ohio, and then to Dobbs Ferry, New York, near New York City, where Parker was developing her career as a child actress. In 1977, the family moved to the newly opened planned community on Roosevelt Island, in the East River between Manhattan and Queens, and later to Manhattan proper; her parents later moved to Englewood, New Jersey.

Parker attended the American Ballet School and the Professional Children's School, and later Dwight Morrow High School. She and four siblings appeared in a revival of The Sound of Music
, and Parker went on to the new 1977-81 Broadway musical Annie
— first in the small role of "Judy," and then succeeding Andrea McArdle and Shelley Bruce in the lead role as the plucky Depression-era orphan, for a year beginning March 6, 1979.

In 1982, Parker was cast in the co-lead role of the CBS-TV sitcom Square Pegs. The show lasted only one season before being cancelled by the network, but Parker's performance was critically well received. In the two years that followed, she was cast in four films - the most significant of those being Footloose
in 1984. Also that year, she become romantically involved with actor Robert Downey Jr., whom she met on the set of Firstborn and with whom she lived through 1991; during their relationship, Downey, Jr. had a drug problem, and Parker has commented that she thought that she was "the person holding him together".

Adult career

Through the 1980s, Parker found steady work in TV specials and mostly unsuccessful films. She also appeared several times on "Shalom Sesame", the Israeli version of Sesame Street.

By the early 1990s, her career was gaining momentum. In 1991, Parker appeared in a supporting role in the romantic comedy, L.A. Story
; both the movie and her performance garnered some positive reviews. The following year she landed an important starring role in the well-received film, Honeymoon in Vegas
, co-starring Nicholas Cage. Her 1993 starring role in the film Hocus Pocus was a higher grosser at the box office but received negative reviews. She next appeared opposite Johnny Depp in the critically acclaimed movie Ed Wood. The film Miami Rhapsody, in 1995, saw her back on familiar territory with more Romantic Comedy material and a leading role. She appeared in another Tim Burton-directed movie, Mars Attacks!, which was one of her five film roles in 1996.

After a quiet 1997, the script for an HBO Drama/Comedy series titled Sex and the City had been sent to Parker and the show's creator Darren Star was determined that she be cast in his project. Despite some early doubts about being cast in a long-term television series, Parker agreed to star.

The first season of the show proved to be an almost instant success, elevating Parker to a higher status, possibly because of the writing's refreshingly honest approach to sex, although Parker had a no-nudity clause in her contract.

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