Mary-Louise Parker

Mary-Louise Parker

1964-08-02 Fort Jackson, South Carolina, USA 63 Credits

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.

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The Auction

2025

Acting

Counting Crows: Have You Seen Me Lately?

2025

as Self

Acting

Catapulted into overnight fame by their massively successful debut album, San Francisco indie rock band Counting Crows and their introspective frontma...

Omni Loop

Omni Loop

2024

as Zoya Lowe

5.7
Acting

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

Woody Woodpecker Goes to Camp

2024

as Angie

6.4
Acting

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

Seneca

2023

as Agrippina

4.9
Acting

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

Bonnie

2022

as Self

5.0
Acting

A portrait of casting director Bonnie Timmermann.

The Same Storm

The Same Storm

2022

as Roxy

8.0
Acting

Snapshots of the tumults of the COVID-19 pandemic.

Adieu Aurora

Adieu Aurora

2022

as Wilma Munro

Acting

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

The Baltimore Waltz

2021

as Anna

Acting

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

Faraway Eyes

2020

Thanks

5.0

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

This Changes Everything

2019

as Self

6.2
Acting

An investigative look and analysis of gender disparity in Hollywood, featuring accounts from well-known actors, executives and artists in the Industry...

Red Sparrow

Red Sparrow

2018

as Stephanie Boucher

6.5
Acting

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

Golden Exits

2018

as Gwendolyn

5.8
Acting

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

Rachel Carson

2017

as Rachel Carson (voice)

8.5
Acting

An intimate portrait of the woman whose groundbreaking books revolutionized our relationship to the natural world. When 'Silent Spring' was published ...

Chronically Metropolitan

Chronically Metropolitan

2016

as Annabel

5.1
Acting

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

Behaving Badly

2014

as Lucy Stevens / Saint Lola

5.3
Acting

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

Jamesy Boy

2014

as Tracy

6.4
Acting

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

Christmas in Conway

2013

as Suzy

5.8
Acting

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.

R.I.P.D.

2013

as Proctor

5.8
Acting

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

RED 2

2013

as Sarah Ross

6.5
Acting

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

Warren Ellis: Captured Ghosts

2011

as Self

6.8
Acting

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

RED

2010

as Sarah Ross

6.7
Acting

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

Howl

2010

as Gail Potter

6.5
Acting

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

Solitary Man

2009

as Jordon Karsch

5.9
Acting

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

6.6
Acting

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

The Spiderwick Chronicles

2008

as Helen Grace

6.7
Acting

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

The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford

2007

as Zee James

7.0
Acting

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

The Robber Bride

2007

as Zenia Arden

4.8
Acting

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

Romance & Cigarettes

2005

as Constance

6.0
Acting

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

Vinegar Hill

2005

as Ellen Grier

4.3
Acting

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

Miracle Run

2004

as Corrine Morgan-Thomas

7.6
Acting

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!

Saved!

2004

as Lillian

6.4
Acting

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

The Best Thief in the World

2004

as Sue Zaidman

4.4
Acting

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

Master Spy: The Robert Hanssen Story

2002

as Bonnie Hanssen

4.7
Acting

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

Pipe Dream

2002

as Toni Edelman

6.0
Acting

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

Red Dragon

2002

as Molly Graham

7.0
Acting

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

5.0
Acting

An actress who clashes with a critic.

Cupid & Cate

Cupid & Cate

2000

as Cate DeAngelo

5.9
Acting

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

The Five Senses

1999

as Rona

5.7
Acting

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

The Simple Life of Noah Dearborn

1999

as Dr. Valerie Crane

5.8
Acting

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

Goodbye Lover

1999

as Peggy Blane

5.7
Acting

Police investigate when a man having an affair with his brother's wife disappears suddenly.

Let the Devil Wear Black

Let the Devil Wear Black

1999

as Julia Hirsch

4.1
Acting

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

Acting

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

Saint Maybe

1998

as Lucy Dean Bedloe

6.2
Acting

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

Legalese

1998

as Rica Martin

5.0
Acting

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

Murder in Mind

1997

as Caroline Walker

5.3
Acting

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

The Maker

1997

as Officer Emily Peck

5.3
Acting

Absent for 10 years, a teen's older brother returns and seeks his help with criminal activity.

The Portrait of a Lady

The Portrait of a Lady

1996

as Henrietta Stackpole

6.0
Acting

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

Sugartime

1995

as Phyllis McGuire

5.9
Acting

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

Reckless

1995

as Pooty

6.4
Acting

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

Boys on the Side

1995

as Robin

6.3
Acting

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

Bullets Over Broadway

1994

as Ellen

7.1
Acting

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

The Client

1994

as Dianne Sway

6.7
Acting

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

A Place for Annie

1994

as Linda

6.0
Acting

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

Naked in New York

1993

as Joanne White

4.5
Acting

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

Mr. Wonderful

1993

as Rita

5.7
Acting

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

Fried Green Tomatoes

1991

as Ruth Jamison

7.7
Acting

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

Grand Canyon

1991

as Dee

6.5
Acting

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

Longtime Companion

1989

as Lisa

6.8
Acting

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

Signs of Life

1989

as Charlotte

4.2
Acting

The closing of a small shipbuilder in New England places stresses on the people involved.

Too Young The Hero

Too Young The Hero

1988

as Pearl Spencer

5.4
Acting

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

Acting

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

Acting

(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...