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Mary-Louise Parker
Dob- 2 August 1964
Pob- Fort Jackson, South Carolina, U.S.A
Mary Louise Parker was known as a teen with potential. She majo RED in acting, graduating from the North Caroliina School of Arts. Since then she has played in many great movies.
Mary Louise Parker's acting career didn't fully get into its gears until she appea RED in the award-winning US political drama "The West Wing". After which, she started 'Weeds'; a comedy series about a suburban mother/marijuana dealer. The show has been going on for years now and is recognised as clever, funny and re-watchable. Mary is said to play a perfect act of Nancy Botwin.
Mary's highest rated movies include:
'Prelude to a Kiss', which stood as a prelude to her future acting career; 'How I learned to Drive, which she won an acting award for; 'Mr Wonderful', 'Naked in New York'; 'The Portrait Of A Lady'; in which she played next to the lead role. This showed that she had the ability to play difficult parts.
Mary Louise plays an excellent role in ' RED'. A movie about a former C.I.A. agent who is attacked by an unknown client. He gets his old team together in the hunt and also takes along his secret love: Sarah Ross (Mary Louise Parker), who is also being hunted.
Mary still continues to do the same old fine work she always does and is still on-going through her career. Through more and more films she works to become an outstanding actress.
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Mary-Louise Parker - news / articles
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Poetry fan Parker delighted with Howl cameo -
26 August 2010
-Mary-Louise Parker was thrilled to make a brief cameo appearance in Howl, the upcoming biopic of famed poet Allen Ginsberg - because she's a secret "poetry geek".-
-The Weeds actress plays an expert witness in a courtroom scene in the drama, which focuses on the 1957 obsce
Mary-Louise Parker - what members say
review by Andybe from Richmond
Better than expected, but... 17 March 2008
review by Englishteacherguy from Yateley
A pleasant change of pace 10 March 2011
Mary-Louise Parker - filmography
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RED - Blu-ray
(2010)
Starring: Bruce Willis, Helen Mirren, Mary-Louise Parker
Director: Robert Schwentke
Certificate: 
Watch now: Included in all packages with LOVEFiLM Instant
Frank (Bruce Willis), Joe (Morgan Freeman), Marvin (John Malkovich) and Victoria (Helen Mirren) used to be the CIA's top agents - but the secrets they know just made them the Agency's top targets. Now framed for assassination, they must use all of their collective cunning, experience and teamwork ..read more »
 
72%
from 18,925 members
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Howl - Blu-ray
(2010)
Starring: Jon Hamm, Mary-Louise Parker
Director: Jeffrey Friedman, Robert Epstein
Certificate: 
James Franco stars as Allen Ginsberg in Robert Epstein and Jeffrey Friedman's biopic that blends traditional narrative storytelling with documentary-style footage and vivid animation to paint a compelling portrait of the famed Beat poet. For many historians, the counterculture was conceived the ..read more »
58%
from 636 members
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RED
on DVD
(2010)
Starring: Bruce Willis, Helen Mirren, Mary-Louise Parker
Director: Robert Schwentke
Certificate:
Watch now: Included in all packages with LOVEFiLM Instant
Frank (Bruce Willis), Joe (Morgan Freeman), Marvin (John Malkovich) and Victoria (Helen Mirren) used to be the CIA's top agents - but the secrets they know just made them the Agency's top targets. Now framed for assassination, they must use all of their collective cunning, experience and teamwork ..read more »
72%
from 56,313 members
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Howl
on DVD
(2009)
Starring: James Franco, Paul Rudd, Mary-Louise Parker
Director: Rob Epstein, Jeffrey Friedman
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James Franco stars as Allen Ginsberg in Robert Epstein and Jeffrey Friedman's biopic that blends traditional narrative storytelling with documentary-style footage and vivid animation to paint a compelling portrait of the famed Beat poet. For many historians, the counterculture was conceived the ..read more »
59%
from 2,357 members
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The Spiderwick Chronicles
on DVD
(2007)
Starring: Sarah Bolger, Freddie Highmore, Seth Rogen
Director: Mark Waters
Certificate: 
Upon moving into the run-down Spiderwick Estate with their mother, twin brothers Jared and Simon Grace, along with their sister Mallory, find themselves pulled into an alternate world full of faeries and other creatures.
71%
from 33,202 members
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Weeds - Season 2
(2 discs)
on DVD
(2006)
Starring: Mary-Louise Parker, Elizabeth Perkins, Romany Malco
Director: Lee Rose, Burr Steers
Certificate: 
The second series of Weeds is funnier, darker and more daring! Mary-Louise Parker returns as Nancy Botwin who, after her husband's unexpected death, and struggling to survive financially, has become the neighbourhood pot dealer! Her new business is a hit as everyone seems to want what she's selling!
86%
from 3,621 members
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Angels In America
(2 discs)
on DVD
(2003)
Starring: Al Pacino, Meryl Streep, Emma Thompson
Director: Mike Nichols
Certificate:
In transferring Tony Kushner's Pulitzer Prize-winning play to the small screen, director Mike Nichols has crafted a profound, ambitious masterpiece. The film follows a sprawling group of characters as they navigate their way through the cutthroat New York City of the 1980s, when AIDS began to rear ..read more »
63%
from 6,208 members
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Red Dragon - HD
(2002)
Starring: Anthony Hopkins, Edward Norton, Ralph Fiennes
Director: Brett Ratner
Certificate:
The first chapter in the Hannibal Lecter trilogy, this is the story of FBI agent Will Graham who is assigned the task of catching 'The Tooth Fairy'. In order to do so he must try to persuade Lecter to advise him. Lecter knows who the murderer is and only feeds small scraps of information to Graham, ..read more »
68%
from 411 members
Not currently released
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Red Dragon
(2002)
Starring: Anthony Hopkins, Edward Norton, Ralph Fiennes
Director: Brett Ratner
Certificate:
The first chapter in the Hannibal Lecter trilogy, this is the story of FBI agent Will Graham who is assigned the task of catching 'The Tooth Fairy'. In order to do so he must try to persuade Lecter to advise him. Lecter knows who the murderer is and only feeds small scraps of information to Graham, ..read more »
71%
from 868 members
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Red Dragon
on DVD
(2002)
Starring: Anthony Hopkins, Edward Norton, Ralph Fiennes
Director: Brett Ratner
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Ex-FBI agent Will Graham is an expert investigator who quit the Bureau after almost losing his life in the process of capturing the elusive Dr. Lecter. Years later, after a series of particularly grisly murders, Graham reluctantly agrees to come out of retirement and assist in the case. But he soon ..read more »
66%
from 21,450 members
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The Five Senses
(1999)
Starring: Molly Parker, Gabrielle Rose, Elize Frances Stolk
Director: Jeremy Podeswa
Certificate: 
"The Five Senses" is an ambitious drama that covers three days in the life of several Toronto residents. As the search for a missing child captures the city's attention, five individuals who live in the same apartment building each explore the five senses - touch, smell, taste, sound, and sight - ..read more »
22%
from 5 members
Currently unavailable
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Let The Devil Wear Black
on DVD
(1998)
Starring: Randall Batinkoff, Jacqueline Bisset, Maury Chaykin
Director: Stacy Title
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Something is rotten in the state of California. In wake of his father's death, the aimless, melancholy Jack (Penner - LAST SUPPER) reluctantly dons the crown and ill-fitting robes of the family empire--a sleazy but profitable Los Angeles adult entertainment franchise. However, Jack suspects that ..read more »
35%
from 92 members
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Portrait Of A Lady
on DVD
(1996)
Starring: Nicole Kidman, John Malkovich, Barbara Hershey
Director: Jane Campion
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Jane Campion directed this expressive adaptation of the classic novel by Henry James. Isabel Archer (Nicole Kidman) is a young American woman who, after the death of her parents, has been sent to England to visit relatives. While her family's tragedy has left her penniless, Isabel's beauty has ..read more »
54%
from 2,401 members
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Sugar Time
(1996)
Starring: John Turturro, Mary-Louise Parker, Elias Koteas
Director: John N. Smith
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The true story of the love affair between powerful, volatile gangster Sam Giancana and Phyllis McGuire of the squeaky-clean McGuire Sisters. The unlikely pair began their relationship in 1960, with Giancana becoming obsessed with McGuire. The mobster's jealousy resulted in a never-ending series of ..read more »
32%
from 4 members
Currently unavailable
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Boys On The Side
(1995)
Starring: Whoopi Goldberg, Mary-Louise Parker, Drew Barrymore
Director: Herbert Ross
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Life hasn't always been easy for cynical club singer Jane DeLuca (Whoopi Goldberg). Men have always been a mystery to uptight career girl Robin (Mary-Louise Parker), and outrageously irresponsible Holly (Drew Barrymore) falls in love every day. Three totally different women set off together on a ..read more »
71%
from 357 members
Currently unavailable
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The Client
on DVD
(1994)
Starring: Susan Sarandon, Tommy Lee Jones, Mary-Louise Parker
Director: Joel Schumacher
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In this taut legal drama a trailer park kid witnesses the suicide of a mob lawyer and is pursued by authorities trying to find out if he knows anything. In an attempt to protect himself, the 11 year-old hires a feisty female attorney who takes up his case and develops a bond with him. Based on the ..read more »
68%
from 5,143 members
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Bullets Over Broadway
(1994)
Starring: John Cusack, Dianne Wiest, Jennifer Tilly
Director: Woody Allen
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David Shayne (John Cusack, in performance his character that of a young Woody Allen) is an idealistic young playwright whose life (and play) is about to be turned upside down as it heads toward Broadway. In order to gain financing for GOD OF OUR FATHERS, Shayne agrees to hire Olive Neal (a ..read more »
66%
from 3,795 members
Not currently released
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A Place For Annie
(1993)
Starring: Mary-Louise Parker, Sissy Spacek, Joan Plowright
Director: John Gray
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In this Hallmark Hall of Fame production, a pediatric nurse (Sissy Spacek) adopts an infant with AIDS only to have the birth mother (Mary-Louise Parker) show up and demand custody. The nurse, her nanny (Joan Plowright), and the mother all vie to care for the little one, ultimately developing a ..read more »
67%
from 190 members
Not currently released
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Mr. Wonderful
(1993)
Starring: Matt Dillon, Annabella Sciorra, Mary-Louise Parker
Director: Anthony Minghella
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Watch now: Unavailable
Gus (Matt Dillon) wants to invest in an old, dilapidated bowling alley with his Con Edison co-workers, but alimony payments to his ex-wife, Lee (Annabella Sciorra), make his dream unattainable. The only way that Gus can regain his financial stability is to stop paying alimony, which he can only do ..read more »
65%
from 61 members
Currently unavailable
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Grand Canyon
on DVD
(1991)
Starring: Steve Martin, Danny Glover, Kevin Kline
Director: Lawrence Kasdan
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Director Lawrence Kasdan's Grand Canyon is a gathering of random events, uniting the film's wildly divergent protagonists. Driving home from an LA Lakers game, Mack (Kevin Kline), an immigration attorney, is stranded in an unsavory part of town when his car breaks down. He is rescued from a gang of ..read more »
61%
from 784 members
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Mary-Louise Parker facts
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...I have a couple gripes... Although the kids were well-cast, I was not a fan of Mary-Louise Parker in this. She just seemed to be playing her 'Weeds' character (and I'm not a fa...
