Early life

Parker was born in Nelsonville, Ohio, the daughter of Barbara, a nursery school operator and teacher, and Steven Parker, an entrepreneur and journalist.^[1] Parker's father, a native of Brooklyn, was Jewish, the original family surname being 'Bar-Kahn' ('son of Kohen'); Parker has said of herself, 'I always just considered myself a Jew'.^[2] Parker's parents divorced early on in Parker's life and her mother remarried Paul Forste. Parker grew up with her mother, stepfather, and seven siblings (three from her parents' marriage, and four from her mother's second marriage).

As a young girl, she trained in singing and ballet, soon being cast in the Broadway production of The Innocents. Her family moved to Cincinnati, Ohio, and then to Dobbs Ferry, New York, near New York City, where Parker was developing her career as a child actress. In 1977, the family moved to the newly opened planned community on Roosevelt Island, in the East River between Manhattan and Queens, and later to Manhattan proper; her parents later moved to Englewood, New Jersey where she attended Dwight Morrow High School.^[3]

Parker attended the School for Creative and Performing Arts, the School of American Ballet and the Professional Children's School, and later Dwight Morrow High School.

Acting career

She and four siblings appeared in a revival of The Sound of Music, and Parker went on to the new 1977-81 Broadway musical Annie

• Aşkın Yaşı Yok 2008 - Oyuncu
• Sex and the City 2008 - Oyuncu, Yapımcı
• Düş Yakamızdan 2006 - Oyuncu
• Aile Bağları 2005 - Oyuncu
• Hayatımdan Çıkar Mısın! 2001 - Oyuncu
• Seni Beklerken 1997 - Oyuncu
• Çılgın Marslılar 1996 - Oyuncu
• Uç Noktalar 1996 - Oyuncu
• If Lucy Fell 1996 - Oyuncu
• Miami Rapsodi 1995 - Oyuncu
• Ed Wood 1994 - Oyuncu
• Vuruş Mesafesi 1993 - Oyuncu
• Vegas'ta Balayı 1992 - Oyuncu
• L.a. Hikayesi 1991 - Oyuncu
• Los Angeles Öyküsü 1991 - Oyuncu
• The 67th Annual Academy Awards - Oyuncu