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Sarah Jessica Parker was born March 25, 1965,
in Nelsonville, Ohio, to parents Stephen Parker and Barbra Forste
(who remarried Paul Forste after divorcing Sarah's father). After
her mother wed Forste, Sarah, her two brothers and her sister, joined
Forste's four children.
Trained in singing and ballet, Sarah was cast in the Broadway production
of The Innocents, which prompted her family to relocate to New Jersey.
Already a professional performer (she studied at the American Ballet
School and the Professional Children's School), Sarah was cast in
The Sound of Music (along with four of her siblings), and landed the
lead in the Broadway run of Annie.
After a year as the free-spirited orphan, Sarah attended Dwight Morrow
High School, while continuing to add more credits to her acting resume.
She landed a role in the made-for-TV movie My Body, My Child, before
being cast as one of the lead roles in the 1982 sitcom Square Pegs,
as high-schooler Patty Green.
Once a graduate, Sarah decided to pursue a full-time acting career
rather than further her education. Since Square Pegs didn't last more
than a year, Sarah moved on to supporting film roles in movies such
as Somewhere Tomorrow, Footloose, First Born, and the lead role in
the teenage film Girls Just Want To Have Fun.
Sarah was having lots of fun, although she had yet to land a star-turning
role. After more television appearances in series and made-for-TV
movies including A Year in the Life, The Room Upstairs, Dadah is Death,
and Equal Justice, Sarah finally landed the role of Steve Martin's
bubbly lover in the 1991 comedy L.A. Story.
More substantial film roles soon followed, starting with a role opposite
Nicolas Cage in 1992's Honeymoon in Vegas (which foreshadowed her
comedic talent), Hocus Pocus (1993), opposite Bruce Willis in Striking
Distance (1993), and Ed Wood (1994). A big Woody Allen fan, she starred
opposite the renowned filmmaker in the TV movie The Sunshine Boys
in 1995, and that same year, she landed a starring role in Miami Rhapsody.
1996 was a film intensive year with roles in The First Wives' Clubs,
If Lucy Fell, Extreme Measures, and Mars Attacks!. All the while making
a name for herself in film, Sarah was gaining respect as a theater
actress, with her lead role as a dog (hard to imagine, but true) in
the off-Broadway Sylvia, and her Broadway roles in How to Succeed
in Business Without Really Trying (starring her present husband, Matthew
Broderick), and the Tony-Award nominated Once Upon a Mattress.
But Sarah's star has shot up since her portrayal of Manhattan sex-columnist
Carrie Bradshaw in the HBO series Sex and the City. Sarah's Golden
Globe Best Actress victory in 2000 only underscores the fact that
she plays the role of Carrie as though it were literally written for
her.
She may portray the role of the single, man-hunting Carrie in the
Emmy-nominated Sex and the City, but Sarah has been happily married
to fellow actor Matthew Broderick for quite a while now. She has had
her share of lovers though, including Robert Downey Jr. (who she also
lived with), and the late John F. Kennedy Jr.
When not serving as lead actress and oft-producer of Sex and the
City, Sarah is a member of Hollywood's Women's Political Committee,
and is UNICEF's representative for the Performing Arts.
She can next be seen in the upcoming film State and Main and is currently
working on a movie entitled Life Without Dick (don't get the wrong
idea). Jessica Parker
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