Biography
Molly Parker (born June 30, 1972) is a Canadian actress. She garnered critical attention for her portrayal of a necrophiliac medical student in the controversial drama Kissed (1996). She subsequently starred in the television thriller Intensity (1997) before landing her first major American film role in the drama Waking the Dead (2000). She gained further notice for her role as a Las Vegas escort in the drama The Center of the World (2001), for which she was nominated for the Independent Spirit ...
Known For
Complete Filmography

You Gotta Believe
2024
as Kathy Kelly
After dedicating the season to a teammate’s ailing father, a group of underestimated Ft. Worth youth baseball players takes its Cinderella run all the...

Peter Pan & Wendy
2023
as Mary Darling
Wendy Darling, a young girl afraid to leave her childhood home behind, meets Peter Pan, a boy who refuses to grow up. Alongside her brothers and a tin...

Jockey
2021
as Ruth Wilkes
An aging jockey is determined to win one last championship, but his dream is complicated when a young rookie shows up claiming to be his son.

Pieces of a Woman
2020
as Eva Woodward
When a young mother's home birth ends in unfathomable tragedy, she begins a year-long odyssey of mourning that fractures relationships with loved ones...

Words on Bathroom Walls
2020
as Beth
Diagnosed with a mental illness halfway through his senior year of high school, a witty, introspective teen struggles to keep it a secret while fallin...

Deadwood: The Movie
2019
as Alma Ellsworth
Follow the 10-year reunion of the Deadwood camp to celebrate South Dakota's statehood. Former rivalries are reignited, alliances are tested and old wo...

Madeline's Madeline
2018
as Evangeline
Madeline has become an integral part of a prestigious physical theater troupe. When the workshop's ambitious director pushes the teenager to weave her...

Magic Bullet
2018
as Rachel
Over the course of a night, Rachel, a bereaved clinical psychologist, combats her grief with elaborate self-soothing rituals while Lia, a regional sho...

Wormwood
2017
as Alice Olson
In this genre-bending tale, Errol Morris explores the mysterious death of a U.S. scientist entangled in a secret Cold War program known as MK-Ultra.

1922
2017
as Arlette James
A simple yet proud rancher conspires to murder his wife for financial gain, convincing his teenage son to participate.

Bird
2017
Director, Writer
When Sam, a woman mired in regret, goes to visit her aged parents, the disappearance of her mother's pet bird threatens to unravel her tenuous hold on...

Small Crimes
2017
as Charlotte Boyd
A disgraced former cop, fresh off a six-year prison sentence for attempted murder, returns home looking for redemption but winds up trapped in the mes...

American Pastoral
2016
as Sheila Smith
Set in postwar America, a man watches his seemingly perfect life fall apart as his daughter's new political affiliation threatens to destroy their fam...

2149: The Aftermath
2016
as Lillian
In an oppressive future, where everyone's only contact is their computer, one lonely young man is forced to venture forth in search of human contact.

Weirdos
2016
as Laurie
It's July 1976, and two Nova Scotian teens, Kit and Alice, are hitting the road with their sights on Sydney and their minds on the future. With them i...

The 9th Life of Louis Drax
2016
as Dalton
A psychologist who begins working with a young boy who has suffered a near-fatal fall finds himself drawn into a mystery that tests the boundaries of ...

Heritage Minutes: Nursing Sisters
2015
as Narrator (voice)
Nursing Sisters serve at the No. 3 Canadian Stationary Hospital in France during the First World War.

Outlaw Prophet: Warren Jeffs
2014
as Janine Jeffs
Cult leader Warren Jeffs rises to power in the polygamist Mormon sect once headed by his late father, but some of his wives fight back to bring him to...

Pete's Christmas
2013
as Pamela
An overlooked middle child finds himself in the unexpected spotlight when he realizes his family's terrible Christmas day keeps repeating. As the only...

Hold Fast
2013
as Aunt Ellen
Two teenage boys escape an unhappy home, embarking on a perilous journey of self-discovery that takes them deep into the Newfoundland wilderness.

The Playroom
2013
as Donna Cantwell
Four children in their attic hideaway make up a fantastic story, while downstairs their parents weave a drunken intrigue of their own.

Hemingway & Gellhorn
2012
as Pauline Hemingway
Writer Ernest Hemingway begins a romance with fellow scribe Martha Gellhorn.

Gone
2011
as Amy Kettering
The kidnapping of a young girl propels her mother into a web of conspiracies.

That's What I Am
2011
as Sherri Nichol
A coming-of-age story that follows 12-year-old Andy Nichol, a bright student who, like most kids his age, will do anything to avoid conflict for fear ...

Oliver Sherman
2011
as Irene Page
Feeling lost and disconnected, with no family of his own, veteran Sherman Oliver sets out to the countryside in search of the soldier who saved him ba...

Trigger
2010
as Kat
Ten years after ending their partnership as rock musicians, two women become re-acquainted in the course of one night.
The Quinn-tuplets
2010
as Rebecca Quinn-Adatto
A set of quintuplets have had their lives documented on television. Now they are adults with professional lives

The Road
2009
as Friendly Woman
A father and his son walk alone through burned America. Nothing moves in the ravaged landscape save the ash on the wind and water. It is cold enough t...
Rear Projection: Molly Parker
2006
2006 experimental short by Mark Lewis

The Wicker Man
2006
as Sister Rose / Sister Thorn
A sheriff investigating the disappearance of a young girl from a small island discovers there's a larger mystery to solve among the island's secretive...

Hollywoodland
2006
as Laurie Simo
When Hollywood superstar George Reeves dies in his home, private detective Louis Simo is hired to investigate his death and gets caught in a web of li...

Who Loves the Sun
2006
as Maggie Claire
A man (Lukas Haas) encounters a childhood friend (Adam Scott) who had an affair with his wife (Molly Parker) five years earlier.

Nine Lives
2005
as Lisa
Captives of the very relationships that define and sustain them, nine women resiliently meet the travails and disappointments of life.

Break a Leg
2005
as Kate
A talented but struggling actor is willing to go to any length to get a job - including "breaking a leg" - especially those of other actors!

The Good Shepherd
2004
as Madeline Finney
When a clergyman is accused for the murder of a social worker, the parish priest recruits a reporter (and his ex-girlfriend) to clear his name.

Iron Jawed Angels
2004
as Emily Leighton
Defiant young activists take the women's suffrage movement by storm, putting their lives at risk to help American women win the right to vote.

Marion Bridge
2003
as Agnes
When three estranged sisters reunite to care for their dying mother, old conflicts and secrets return to the surface.
Undying Love
2002
as Narrator
"Undying Love" tells the poignant, enduring, and miraculous love stories of the survivors of World War II. Against the brutalized landscape of post-wa...

Men with Brooms
2002
as Amy Foley
A decade ago, curler Chris Cutter disappeared suddenly on the verge of stardom, dropping his curling stones to the bottom of a lake and leaving his fi...

Pure
2002
as Mel
A young boy trying to deal with his mother's heroin addiction befriends a waitress who helps him cope with the tough situation.

Max
2002
as Nina Rothman
In 1918, a young, disillusioned Adolf Hitler strikes up a friendship with a Jewish art dealer while weighing a life of passion for art vs. talent at p...

Looking for Leonard
2002
as Monica
Ted, his girlfriend Jo, and his brother Johnny are small-time robbers in Montreal. The brothers spend their time watching TV, while Jo rereads Leonard...

Looking for Leonard
2002
Executive Producer
Ted, his girlfriend Jo, and his brother Johnny are small-time robbers in Montreal. The brothers spend their time watching TV, while Jo rereads Leonard...

Rare Birds
2001
as Alice
A down-and-out restaurateur and his neighbor hatch a plan to lure bird watchers to their small Newfoundland town and increase tourism by announcing th...

Last Wedding
2001
as Sarah
Three couples in Vancouver navigate their relationships: first jobs, first crises, professional jealousy, an affair, and lack of communication. Noah a...

Suspicious River
2001
as Leila Murray
A young married woman sells her body, not just for money, to guests at the motel where she works as a receptionist.

The Center of the World
2001
as Florence
A couple checks into a suite in Las Vegas. In flashbacks we see that he's a computer whiz on the verge of becoming a dot.com millionaire, she's a lap ...

The War Bride
2001
as Sylvia
During World War II, a Cockney woman marries a Canadian soldier and adjusts to life in Alberta.

Waking the Dead
2000
as Juliet Beck
A congressional candidate questions his sanity after seeing the love of his life, presumed dead, suddenly emerge.

Ladies Room
1999
as Julia
In an ethereal, high-ceilinged room, women stand, waiting. Perhaps it's Purgatory and they're dead. In the room, two young women, one an actress and t...

The Intruder
1999
as Daisy
Catherine meets Nick by accident and, after a whirlwind romance, the two get married and Catherine moves into Nick's apartment only that's the start o...

Sunshine
1999
as Hannah Wippler
The fate of a Hungarian Jewish family throughout the 20th century.

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

Wonderland
1999
as Molly
There's little wonder in the working-class lives of Bill, Eileen, and their three grown daughters. They're lonely Londoners. Nadia, a cafe waitress, p...

Under Heaven
1998
as Cynthia
Two young lovers try to con a wealthy woman out of her inheritance by pretending to be brother and sister.

Intensity
1997
as Chyna Shepherd
Chyna Shepherd is a twenty-six-year-old psychology student who survived an extremely troubled past. While visiting Laura Templeton's house, a farm in ...

Bliss
1997
as Connie
On his wedding day, Joseph nervously admits that his wife is not quite like other women. But his beautiful bride is more than just the "impulsive, com...

Contagious
1997
as Flight Attendant Stephanie
When shrimp from Mexico, tainted with Cholera, is served to people on a plane bound for LA, an outbreak ensues. A doctor sets out to find the source a...

Hard Core Logo
1996
as Band Member - Jenifur (uncredited)
Bruce Macdonald follows punk bank Hard Core Logo on a harrowing last-gasp reunion tour throughout Western Canada. As magnetic lead-singer Joe Dick hol...

Kissed
1996
as Sandra Larson
Over the years, a child's romantic ideals about death blossom into necrophilia, the study of embalming and the most profound relationship of her life.

Ebbie
1995
as Francine/Frannie
In this updated retelling of Dickens' "A Christmas Carol," ruthless business-woman and shopping store owner Elizabeth "Ebbie" Scrooge is taught the tr...

Deceived by Trust: A Moment of Truth Movie
1995
as Rachel Morton
When a student confides to her guidance counselor that the high school principal has been sexually harassing her, the guidance counselor attempts to h...

Freefall: Flight 174
1995
as Norma Sax
True story of a brand-new Canadian airliner running out of fuel in-flight and forced to glide to the nearest airfield.

Last of the Dogmen
1995
as Nurse
A Montana bounty hunter is sent into the wilderness to track three escaped prisoners. Instead he sees something that puzzles him. Later with a female ...

Wings of Courage
1995
as Jean's Dance Partner (uncredited)
In 1930 South America, a small group of French pilots struggle to prove they can offer a reliable airmail service over the Andes. When one of the youn...

The Ranger, the Cook and a Hole in the Sky
1995
as Sue
A young ranger in the Montana wilderness discovers the great forces of nature while learning the importance of honor, trust and integrity. Legendary v...

Serving in Silence - The Margarethe Cammermeyer Story
1995
as Lynette
After serving in the military for more than twenty years, including a tour of duty in Vietnam, Colonel Margarethe Cammermeyer (Glenn Close) had seen h...

Little Criminals
1995
as Social Worker
Des is an eleven year old kid who has had a really bad deal in life. Crime and mischief are the main staples of his life and he and his friends cruise...

Paris or Somewhere
1994
as Peg Kennedy
A confessed killer wanders into a small community in the Canadian prairies.

One More Mountain
1994
as Eliza Williams
Margaret Reed, a wealthy and proud woman of Chicago unwillingly finds herself a member of the Donner party - a group of pioneers making their way to C...

The Substitute
1993
as Courtney
A high school substitute English teacher resorts to murder to protect her murderous dark past while seducing a student who begins to suspect her true ...

Just One of the Girls
1993
as Lynne
To save himself from the biggest bully in school, Chris Calder has to dress himself up like a girl to avoid Curt. When the disguise works, he is force...

My Son Johnny
1991
as Lori Spoda
Anthony Cortino lives with his mother in a quiet suburb. His father is dead, and his violent criminal brother is a long way off, in the city, and if A...

Silent Motive
1991
as 2nd Female Questioner
Notorious for writing the most successful - and scandalous - scripts in Hollywood, hit screenwriter Laura Bardell suddenly finds herself implicated in...
The Mothership
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One year after her husband mysteriously disappears, Sara Morse discovers a strange, extraterrestrial object underneath their home. Sara and her kids e...