Sarah Jessica Parker (born March 25, 1965) is an American actress and television producer. She is the recipient of numerous accolades, including six Golden Globe Awards and two Primetime Emmy Awards. Time magazine named her one of the 100 most influential people in the world in 2022. She is known for her role as Carrie Bradshaw on the HBO television series Sex and the City (1998–2004), for which she won two Emmy Awards, four Golden Globe Awards for Best Actress in a Comedy Series and three Screen Actors Guild Awards. The character was widely popular during the airing of the series and was later recognized as one of the greatest female characters in American television. She later reprised the role in films Sex and the City (2008) and Sex and the City 2 (2010), as well as the television show And Just Like That... (2021–present). Parker made her Broadway debut at the age of 11 in the 1976 revival of The Innocents, before going on to star in the title role of the Broadway musical Annie in 1979. She made her first major film appearances in the 1984 dramas Footloose and Firstborn. Her other film roles include L.A. Story (1991), Honeymoon in Vegas (1992), Hocus Pocus (1993), Ed Wood (1994), The First Wives Club (1996), The Family Stone (2005), Failure to Launch (2006), Did You Hear About the Morgans? (2009), and New Year's Eve (2011). In 2012, Parker returned to television for the first time since Sex and the City, portraying Isabelle Wright in three episodes of the FOX series Glee. She starred as Frances Dufresne in the HBO series Divorce (2016–2019), for which she was nominated for a Golden Globe Award. Since 2005, she has run her own production company, Pretty Matches, which has been creating content for HBO and other channels.

Filmography

• 2026Bang My Box: The Robin Byrd Story — Producer
• 2025The Librarians — Executive Producer
• 2024Front Row — Executive Producer
• 2022And Just Like That... The Documentary — Self, Executive Producer
• 2022Grit & Grace: The Fight for the American Dream — Narrator
• 2022Hocus Pocus 2 — Sarah Sanderson
• 2022The Estate — Producer
• And Just Like That… — Carrie Bradshaw, Executive Producer
• 2020In Search of the Sanderson Sisters: A Hocus Pocus Hulaween Takeover — Sarah Sanderson
• 2019What She Said: The Art of Pauline Kael — Pauline's Voice Over
• 2 Dope Queens
• 2018Here and Now — Vivienne, Producer
• 2018The Times of Bill Cunningham — Narrator (voice)
• 2016All Roads Lead to Rome — Maggie
• Divorce — Frances DuFresne, Executive Producer
• 2013Escape from Planet Earth — Kira Supernova (voice)
• 2011I Don't Know How She Does It — Kate Reddy
• 2011New Year's Eve — Kim
• 2010One Night Only: Barbra Streisand and Quartet at the Village Vanguard — Audience
• 2010Sex and the City 2 — Carrie Bradshaw, Producer
• Work of Art: The Next Great Artist — Producer
• 2009Did You Hear About the Morgans? — Meryl Morgan
• Glee — Isabelle Wright
• 2009Spinning Into Butter — Sarah Daniels
• 2009Washingtonienne — Executive Producer
• 2008Sex and the City — Carrie Bradshaw, Producer
• 2008Smart People — Janet Hartigan
• 2006Failure to Launch — Paula
• 2006Strangers with Candy — Peggy Callas
• 2005The Family Stone — Meredith Morton
• TV Land Moguls
• 2002Life Without Dick — Colleen Gibson
• 2000Sex and the Matrix — Carrie Bradshaw
• 2000State and Main — Claire Wellesley
• 1999Dudley Do-Right — Nell Fenwick
• 1998A Life Apart: Hasidism in America — Narrator
• Mikhail Baryshnikov's Stories from My Childhood — Narrator (voice)
• Sex and the City — Carrie Bradshaw, Producer, Co-Executive Producer
• 1997'Til There Was You — Francesca Lanfield
• 1996Extreme Measures — Jodie Trammel
• 1996If Lucy Fell — Lucy Ackerman
• 1996Mars Attacks! — Nathalie Lake
• 1996The First Wives Club — Shelly Stewart
• 1996The Substance of Fire — Sarah Geldhart
• 1996The Sunshine Boys — Nancy Clark
• 1995Miami Rhapsody — Gwyn
• 1995Owen
• 1994Ed Wood — Dolores Fuller
• 1993Hocus Pocus — Sarah Sanderson
• 1993Striking Distance — Jo Christman
• 1992Honeymoon in Vegas — Betsy / Donna
• 1992In the Best Interest of the Children — Callie Cain
• The Ben Stiller Show
• The Larry Sanders Show — Sarah Jessica Parker
• The Tonight Show with Jay Leno
• 1991L.A. Story — SanDeE
• Equal Justice — Jo Ann Harris
• 1989Life Under Water — Amy-Beth
• 1989The Ryan White Story — Laura
• Twist of Fate — Miriam
• 1988Dadah Is Death — Rachel Goldman
• A Year in the Life — Kay Erickson
• 1987The Room Upstairs — Mandy Janovic
• A Year in the Life — Kay Erickson
• 1986Flight of the Navigator — Carolyn McAdams
• 1985Girls Just Want to Have Fun — Janey Glenn
• 1985Going for the Gold: The Bill Johnson Story — Maggie
• 1984Firstborn — Lisa
• 1984Footloose — Rusty
• 1984The Almost Royal Family — Suzanne Henderson
• 1983Somewhere, Tomorrow — Lori Anderson
• American Playhouse — Amy-Beth
• Hotel — Rachel Sutton
• 1982My Body, My Child — Katy
• Square Pegs — Patty Greene
• This Week
• 3-2-1 Contact — Annie
• ABC Afterschool Special — Suzanne Henderson
• Sesame Street
• Hallmark Hall of Fame — Mandy
• Hocus Pocus 3 — Sarah Sanderson
• Honorable but Broken: EMS in Crisis — Narrator
• Sex and the City: A Farewell — Carrie Bradshaw
• Shalom Sesame — Jerusalem Jones
• The Families Stone — Meredith Morton, Producer

Appearances as themselves (65)

• 2025SNL50: The Homecoming Concert — Self
• 2025The New Yorker at 100 — Self
• Tim Burton: Life in the Line — Self (footage)
• 2024Happy Clothes: A Film About Patricia Field — Self
• In Vogue: The 90s — Self
• 2023Hot Potato: The Story of The Wiggles — Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
• 2020One World: Together at Home — Self
• GQ Presents: Iconic Characters — Self
• 2018Hocus Pocus 25th Anniversary Halloween Bash — Self
• The Alec Baldwin Show — Self
• The Great American Read — Self
• Chelsea — Self
• Nightcap — Self
• 2015Bridget Everett: Gynecological Wonder — Self
• The Late Show with Stephen Colbert — Self
• Late Night with Seth Meyers — Self
• Variety Studio: Actors on Actors — Self
• 2013$ellebrity — Self
• 2013Mademoiselle C — Self
• Comedians in Cars Getting Coffee — Self
• 2011"Footloose": Remembering Willard — Self
• Billy on the Street — Self
• 2011From Bomont to the Big Apple: An Interivew with Sarah Jessica Parker — Self
• Hamish and Andy's Gap Year — Herself
• The Jonathan Ross Show — Self
• Who Do You Think You Are? — Self
• Live from Studio Five — Self
• 2009Waking Sleeping Beauty — Self (archive footage)
• Watch What Happens Live with Andy Cohen — Self - Guest
• 2008Live from the Red Carpet: Sex and the City — Self
• 2008Sex and the City: A Conversation with Sarah Jessica Parker and Michael Patrick King — Self
• 2008Sex and the City: The Party That Never Was — Self
• 2008Sex and the City: The Wedding Dress Photo Shoot — Self
• 2008The Fabulous Fashion of 'Sex and the City' — Self
• 2007Sesame Beginnings: Moving Together — Herself
• 2007ShowBusiness: The Road to Broadway — Self
• 2006Life After Tomorrow — Self
• The Reichen Show — Self - Guest
• 2004Ed Wood: Let's Shoot This @#!% — Self
• 2004Ed Wood: Pie Plates Over Hollywood — Self (archive footage)
• Project Runway — Self - Guest Judge
• 2003Off the Record: The 9/11 Election — Self
• The Ellen DeGeneres Show — Self
• 2001America | A Tribute to Heroes — Self
• The Early Show — Self
• 1998VH1: Divas Live — Self - Host
• Leute heute — Self
• 1997The Gift of Song: Music for UNICEF — Self
• The View — Self
• The Daily Show — Self
• 1995R.E.M.: Rough Cut — Herself
• Inside the Actors Studio — Self
• Space Ghost Coast to Coast — Self
• GMTV — Self
• Late Night with Conan O'Brien — Self - Guest
• MTV Movie & TV Awards — Self / Host
• LIVE with Kelly and Mark — Self - Guest
• Saturday Night Live — Self - Host
• Tony Awards — Self - Presenter
• The Oscars — Self
• Today — Self
• Bambi — Self
• 9/11 Untold Stories — Self
• Broadway: The Next Generation — Self
• The Making of 'Sex and the City' — Self