Mary-Louise Parker (born August 2, 1964) is an American actress and writer. She is the recipient of two Tony Awards, two Golden Globe Awards, and a Primetime Emmy Award. THEATRE includes The Sound Inside at Studio 54 (Tony Award); How I Learned to Drive (Obie and Lucille Lortel Awards and an Outer Critics Circle nomination), Heisenberg and The Snow Geese at the Samuel J. Friedman Theatre; Proof at the Booth Theatre (Tony, Drama Desk, Outer Critics Circle, Drama League, Lucille Lortel, Obie, and New York Magazine Awards), Prelude to a Kiss at the Helen Hayes Theatre (Tony and Drama Desk nominations, Theatre World and The Clarence Derwent Award); Four Dogs and a Bone at the New York City Centre; Babylon Gardens at the Circle Repertory Theatre; The Art of Success at the Manhattan Theatre Club; Communicating Doors at the Variety Arts Theatre, Reckless at the Biltmore Theatre (Tony nomination); Hedda Gabler at the American Airlines Theatre; Bus Stop at the Circle in the Square theatre; The Importance of Being Earnest at Hartford Stage; Up in Saratoga at the Old Globe Theatre; and Hay Fever at the Studio Arena Theatre. TELEVISION includes The Institute, Weeds (Golden Globe award, four additional nominations, three Emmy nominations, six SAG nominations), Angels in America (Emmy, Golden Globe, and Satellite Awards), The West Wing (Emmy nomination), The Robber Bride (Emmy nomination), Mr. Mercedes, When We Rise, Billions, Sugar Time, Saint Maybe, and A Place for Annie. FILM includes Omni Loop, Red Sparrow, Golden Exits, R.I.P.D, Red and Red 2, Behaving Badly, Pipe Dream, Chronically Metropolitan, Longtime Companion, Grand Canyon, Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Café, Naked in New York, The Client, Bullets over Broadway, Boys on the Side, Reckless, The Five Senses, Saved!, Romance & Cigarettes, Red Dragon, Solitary Man, and Howl.

Filmography

• 2027The Auction — Paula Kletter
• 2026Happy Hours
• The Gray House — Eliza Van Lew
• 2026The Oresteia — Montie Middleton
• 2026Young Washington — Mary Washington
• 2025El Dorado — Phillipa Rios
• The Institute — Ms. Sigsby
• Elsbeth — Freya Frostad
• 2024Omni Loop — Zoya Lowe
• 2024Woody Woodpecker Goes to Camp — Angie
• 2023Seneca — Agrippina
• 2022Adieu Aurora — Wilma Munro
• 2022The Same Storm — Roxy
• Colin in Black and White — Teresa Kaepernick
• 2021Faraway Eyes — Thanks
• Hemingway — Marcelline Hemingway (voice), Mary Hemingway (voice)
• 2021The Baltimore Waltz — Anna
• 2018Golden Exits — Gwendolyn
• 2018Red Sparrow — Stephanie Boucher
• Mr. Mercedes — Janey Patterson
• 2017Rachel Carson — Rachel Carson (voice)
• When We Rise — Roma Guy
• Billions — George Minchak
• 2016Chronically Metropolitan — Annabel
• 2014Behaving Badly — Lucy Stevens / Saint Lola
• 2014Jamesy Boy — Tracy
• 2013Christmas in Conway — Suzy
• 2013R.I.P.D. — Proctor
• 2013RED 2 — Sarah Ross
• The Blacklist — Naomi Hyland
• 2010Howl — Gail Potter
• 2010RED — Sarah Ross
• 2009Solitary Man — Jordon Karsch
• 2008The Spiderwick Chronicles — Helen Grace
• 2007The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford — Zee James
• 2007The Robber Bride — Zenia Arden
• 2006Romance & Cigarettes — Constance
• 2005Vinegar Hill — Ellen Grier
• Weeds — Nancy Botwin
• 2004Miracle Run — Corrine Morgan-Thomas
• 2004Saved! — Lillian
• 2004The Best Thief in the World — Sue Zaidman
• Angels in America — Harper Pitt
• 2002Master Spy: The Robert Hanssen Story — Bonnie Hanssen
• Master Spy: The Robert Hanssen Story — Bonnie Hanssen
• 2002Pipe Dream — Toni Edelman
• 2002Red Dragon — Molly Graham
• 2002The Quality Of Mercy — Sarah Richardson
• 2000Cupid & Cate — Cate DeAngelo
• 1999Goodbye Lover — Peggy Blane
• 1999Let the Devil Wear Black — Julia Hirsch
• 1999The Five Senses — Rona
• 1999The Simple Life of Noah Dearborn — Dr. Valerie Crane
• The West Wing — Amy Gardner
• 1998Legalese — Rica Martin
• 1998Saint Maybe — Lucy Dean Bedloe
• 1997Murder in Mind — Caroline Walker
• 1997The Maker — Officer Emily Peck
• 1996The Portrait of a Lady — Henrietta Stackpole
• 1995Boys on the Side — Robin
• 1995Reckless — Pooty
• 1995Sugartime — Phyllis McGuire
• 1994A Place for Annie — Linda
• 1994Bullets Over Broadway — Ellen
• 1994The Client — Dianne Sway
• 1993Mr. Wonderful — Rita
• 1993Naked in New York — Joanne White
• 1991Fried Green Tomatoes — Ruth Jamison
• 1991Grand Canyon — Dee
• 1989Longtime Companion — Lisa
• 1989Signs of Life — Charlotte
• 1988Too Young The Hero — Pearl Spencer
• American Playhouse — Charlotte, Lisa
• Hallmark Hall of Fame — Linda, Lucy Dean Bedloe, Cate
• Face — Tanya
• Kissinger Takes Paris
• The Best Is Yet to Come

Appearances as themselves (10)

• 2025Music Box: Counting Crows: Have You Seen Me Lately? — Self
• 2022Bonnie — Self
• 2019This Changes Everything — Self
• Late Night with Seth Meyers — Self
• 2011Warren Ellis: Captured Ghosts — Self
• 2008The Assassination of Jesse James: Death of an Outlaw — Self
• The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson — Self
• The Reichen Show — Self
• 1998Moments of Discovery: The Making of Fried Green Tomatoes — Self
• Tony Awards — Self - Presenter