Biography
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.
Known For
Complete Filmography
The Auction
2025
Counting Crows: Have You Seen Me Lately?
2025
as Self
Catapulted into overnight fame by their massively successful debut album, San Francisco indie rock band Counting Crows and their introspective frontma...

Omni Loop
2024
as Zoya Lowe
Diagnosed with a black hole growing inside her chest and stuck in a loop reliving the last five days of her life, a 55-year-old wife and mother from M...

Woody Woodpecker Goes to Camp
2024
as Angie
After getting kicked out of the forest, Woody thinks he's found a forever home at Camp Woo Hoo — until an inspector threatens to shut down the camp.

Seneca
2023
as Agrippina
Rome in 65 AD, Emperor Nero's tyrannical regime has reached its zenith, Nero's self-indulgence and excessiveness brings up the opposition against him,...

Bonnie
2022
as Self
A portrait of casting director Bonnie Timmermann.

The Same Storm
2022
as Roxy
Snapshots of the tumults of the COVID-19 pandemic.

Adieu Aurora
2022
as Wilma Munro
Investment bankers try to convince the brother of a recently deceased Rabbi to convert to a cult. It has an R rating for language throughout.

The Baltimore Waltz
2021
as Anna
A comic and dramatic fantasia based on the love and adventures of a brother and sister, one of whom has a fatal disease.

Faraway Eyes
2020
Thanks
Michael, a struggling actor, dies right after a bad breakup. He finds himself awakening in a very bright room with a very strange lady and learns that...

This Changes Everything
2019
as Self
An investigative look and analysis of gender disparity in Hollywood, featuring accounts from well-known actors, executives and artists in the Industry...

Red Sparrow
2018
as Stephanie Boucher
Prima ballerina Dominika Egorova faces a bleak and uncertain future after she suffers an injury that ends her career. She soon turns to Sparrow School...

Golden Exits
2018
as Gwendolyn
An intersectional narrative of two families in Brooklyn and the unraveling of unspoken unhappiness that occurs when a young foreign girl spending time...

Rachel Carson
2017
as Rachel Carson (voice)
An intimate portrait of the woman whose groundbreaking books revolutionized our relationship to the natural world. When 'Silent Spring' was published ...

Chronically Metropolitan
2016
as Annabel
A case of writer's block inspires a young novelist to return home to New York City and reconnect with his engaged ex and his bohemian parents.

Behaving Badly
2014
as Lucy Stevens / Saint Lola
Teenager Rick Stevens is willing to do whatever it takes to win the heart of Nina Pennington. He'll have to deal with his best friend's horny mom, a d...

Jamesy Boy
2014
as Tracy
Based on the true story of teenager James Burns who goes from a suburban street gang to a maximum-security prison cell surrounded by hardened criminal...

Christmas in Conway
2013
as Suzy
Duncan Mayor decides the perfect Christmas present for his terminally ill wife, Suzy, is a ride on a real Ferris wheel, set up in their very own back ...

R.I.P.D.
2013
as Proctor
A recently slain cop joins a team of undead police officers working for the Rest in Peace Department and tries to find the man who murdered him.

RED 2
2013
as Sarah Ross
Retired C.I.A. agent Frank Moses reunites his unlikely team of elite operatives for a global quest to track down a missing portable nuclear device.

Warren Ellis: Captured Ghosts
2011
as Self
Warren Ellis: Captured Ghosts is a feature-length documentary that takes an in depth look at the life, career and mind of the British comic book write...

RED
2010
as Sarah Ross
After surviving an assault from a squad of hit men, retired CIA black ops agent Frank Moses reassembles his old team for an all-out war. Frank reunite...

Howl
2010
as Gail Potter
It's San Francisco in 1957, and an American masterpiece is put on trial. Howl, the film, recounts this dark moment using three interwoven threads: the...

Solitary Man
2009
as Jordon Karsch
A car magnate watches his personal and professional life hit the skids because of his business and romantic indiscretions.
The Assassination of Jesse James: Death of an Outlaw
2008
as Self
Explores the true story of the notorious Jesse James, how the myth developed during his lifetime, and how the legends have persisted over 100 years af...

The Spiderwick Chronicles
2008
as Helen Grace
Upon moving into the run-down Spiderwick Estate with their mother, twin brothers Jared and Simon Grace, along with their sister Mallory, find themselv...

The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford
2007
as Zee James
Outlaw Jesse James is rumored to be the 'fastest gun in the West'. An eager recruit into James' notorious gang, Robert Ford eventually grows jealous o...

The Robber Bride
2007
as Zenia Arden
Journalist Zenia Arden has disappeared. When her finger turns up on the shores of Lake Ontario next to her blood-soaked car, the police believe they'v...

Romance & Cigarettes
2005
as Constance
Ironworker Nick lives with his wife, Kitty, and three daughters. When he meets a significantly younger woman, Tula, he starts an affair with her, much...

Vinegar Hill
2005
as Ellen Grier
Family secrets surface when a married couple returns to the husband’s hometown, where his overbearing family interferes with their imagined new start.

Miracle Run
2004
as Corrine Morgan-Thomas
Corinne is a single mother of twin 5-year-old boys, Steven and Phillip, who are diagnosed with autism. Public school officials threaten to remove them...

Saved!
2004
as Lillian
Mary is a good Christian girl who goes to a good Christian high school where she has good Christian friends and a perfect Christian boyfriend. Her lif...

The Best Thief in the World
2004
as Sue Zaidman
Izzy, the youngest son of a troubled New York family, takes a shine to breaking into people's apartments as a way to get attention.

Master Spy: The Robert Hanssen Story
2002
as Bonnie Hanssen
True story about the cat and mouse game between the FBI trying to find a Soviet mole in their ranks and Robert Hanssen, one of the top FBI agents and ...

Pipe Dream
2002
as Toni Edelman
A lonely plumber poses as a movie director to meet women, and the writer whose script he's stolen builds on his ruse to get her movie made.

Red Dragon
2002
as Molly Graham
Former FBI Agent Will Graham, who was once almost killed by the savage Hannibal 'The Cannibal' Lecter, now has no choice but to face him again, as it ...
The Quality Of Mercy
2002
as Sarah Richardson
An actress who clashes with a critic.

Cupid & Cate
2000
as Cate DeAngelo
Cate has a small boutique where she sells vintage clothes. She is dating some snob whose mother thinks that Cate is a second-class citizen because of ...

The Five Senses
1999
as Rona
Interconnected stories examine situations involving the five senses. Touch is represented by a massage therapist who is treating a woman, while her da...

The Simple Life of Noah Dearborn
1999
as Dr. Valerie Crane
In the small Southern community of Twin Pines, GA, lives Noah Dearborn, a master craftsman and farmer who cherishes his solitude almost as much as the...

Goodbye Lover
1999
as Peggy Blane
Police investigate when a man having an affair with his brother's wife disappears suddenly.

Let the Devil Wear Black
1999
as Julia Hirsch
A man comes face-to-face with personal treachery after suspecting that his father may have been murdered.
Moments of Discovery: The Making of Fried Green Tomatoes
1998
as Self
An original documentary exploring one of America's most beloved films. Take a journey with director Jon Avnet, actresses Kathy Bates, Jessica Tandy, M...

Saint Maybe
1998
as Lucy Dean Bedloe
A lonely teen troubled by a past family tragedy is suspicious of his sister-in-law, believing she is being unfaithful. His confrontation with his brot...

Legalese
1998
as Rica Martin
When an actress is charged with murder, a charming celebrity lawyer uses trickery to defend her against the press as well as the prosecution.

Murder in Mind
1997
as Caroline Walker
The L.A. police find two bodies in a fancy house and suspect the wife of one victim. Dr. Ellis, a hypnotherapist, takes her back in time; with the pol...

The Maker
1997
as Officer Emily Peck
Absent for 10 years, a teen's older brother returns and seeks his help with criminal activity.

The Portrait of a Lady
1996
as Henrietta Stackpole
Ms. Isabel Archer isn't afraid to challenge societal norms. Impressed by her free spirit, her kindhearted cousin writes her into his fatally ill fathe...

Sugartime
1995
as Phyllis McGuire
Sam Giancana is a ruthless mob boss from Chicago. During a trip to Las Vegas, he sees a performance by the McGuire Sisters, a popular singing group wi...

Reckless
1995
as Pooty
On Christmas Eve, a relentlessly cheerful woman escapes from the killers hired by her husband, and embarks on a series of strange encounters.

Boys on the Side
1995
as Robin
After breaking up with her girlfriend, a nightclub singer, Jane, answers a personal ad from Robin, a real estate agent with AIDS, seeking a cross-coun...

Bullets Over Broadway
1994
as Ellen
After young playwright, David Shayne obtains funding for his play from gangster Nick Valenti, Nick's girlfriend Olive miraculously lands the role of a...

The Client
1994
as Dianne Sway
A street-wise kid, Mark Sway, sees the suicide of Jerome Clifford, a prominent Louisiana lawyer, whose current client is Barry 'The Blade' Muldano, a ...

A Place for Annie
1994
as Linda
Baby Annie is HIV positive and has been left in the clinic by her drug addicted mother. To prevent that she's deported to a home where they'd just wai...

Naked in New York
1993
as Joanne White
Naked in New York begins in the car of grown up Jake, he is talking to us about his girlfriend, Joanne, and to whom you can turn to for help while fa...

Mr. Wonderful
1993
as Rita
Electrician Gus gets the chance to fulfil a childhood dream by buying an old bowling-alley with some of his friends, but first he must find his ex-wif...

Fried Green Tomatoes
1991
as Ruth Jamison
Amidst her own personality crisis, a southern housewife meets an outgoing old woman who tells her the story of Idgie Threadgoode and Ruth Jamison, two...

Grand Canyon
1991
as Dee
Grand Canyon revolved around six residents from different backgrounds whose lives intertwine in modern-day Los Angeles. At the center of the film is t...

Longtime Companion
1989
as Lisa
During the summer of 1981, a group of friends in New York are completely unprepared for the onslaught of AIDS. What starts as a rumor about a mysterio...

Signs of Life
1989
as Charlotte
The closing of a small shipbuilder in New England places stresses on the people involved.

Too Young The Hero
1988
as Pearl Spencer
TV movie based upon the true story of Calvin Graham, who, as a 12 year old boy, enlisted in the US Navy during WWII.
Face
N/A
as Tanya
14 vignettes, both comedic and dramatic, which look at women’s faces getting older, and why that makes people angry.
Kissinger Takes Paris
N/A
(Mostly) true story of Henry Kissinger—a middle-aged, politically washed-up Harvard professor who, in 1968, travels to Paris at the height of its stud...