:Sarah Jessica Parker

Sarah Jessica Parker was born on March 25, 1965, in Nelsonville, Ohio, the daughter of Barbara Parker (née Keck), a nursery-school operator and teacher, and Stephen Parker, an entrepreneur and journalist.{{cite web|title=Sarah Jessica Parker Biography (1965–)|url=http://www.filmreference.com/film/48/Sarah-Jessica-Parker.html|website=Film Reference|publisher=Advameg, Inc.|access-date=February 18, 2014}} She was one of a total of eight children from her parents' marriage and her mother's second marriage; her full siblings include actors Timothy Britten Parker and Pippin Parker. Parker's parents divorced when she was 3½ years old, and her mother married Paul Forste, a truck driver and account executive.{{cite news|last=Fabrikant|first=Geraldine|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2000/07/30/business/talking-money-with-sarah-jessica-parker-start-welfare-riches-city.html|title=Talking Money With: Sarah Jessica Parker; From A Start On Welfare To Riches In The City|work=The New York Times|date=July 30, 2000|access-date=February 18, 2014}} Stephen, a native of Brooklyn, is Jewish (from a family from Eastern Europe){{cite news|first= Danielle|last=Berrin|url=http://jewishjournal.com/news/los_angeles/community/93946/|title=Sex sells: Sarah Jessica Parker tops list of highest paid U.S. actresses|work=Jewish Journal|date=July 6, 2011|access-date=May 16, 2018}}{{cite web|first=Eleanor|last=Lees|url=http://home.bt.com/news/showbiz-news/who-is-sarah-jessica-parker-everything-you-need-to-know-about-her-11364249863326|title=Who is Sarah Jessica Parker? Everything you need to know about her|work=BT.com|agency=BT Group|date=February 15, 2018|access-date=May 16, 2018|archive-date=February 22, 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200222033543/http://home.bt.com/news/showbiz-news/who-is-sarah-jessica-parker-everything-you-need-to-know-about-her-11364249863326|url-status=dead}}{{cite news|first=Kevin|last=Sessums|url=https://www.thedailybeast.com/sarah-jessica-parker-on-surrogacy-and-cursing|title=Sarah Jessica Parker on Surrogacy and Cursing|work=The Daily Beast|date=December 16, 2009|access-date=May 16, 2018}} and his family's original surname was "Bar-Kahn" ("son of Kohen").{{cite episode|title=1|series=Who Do You Think You Are?|series-link=Who Do You Think You Are? (U.S. TV series)|network=NBC|airdate=March 5, 2010|season=1|number=1}}{{cite news|last=Pogrebin|first=Abigail|title=Excerpt: 'Stars of David: Prominent Jews Talk About Being Jewish' by Abigail Pogrebin|work=ABC News|date=December 26, 2005|url=https://abcnews.go.com/GMA/story?id=1429337|access-date=September 26, 2007}} Barbara is of German, and some English, descent.{{cite web|title=Sarah Jessica Parker bio|url=http://www.nbc.com/who-do-you-think-you-are/bios/sarahP.shtml |date=February 9, 2010 |website=Who Do You Think You Are?|publisher=NBC|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100209044106/http://www.nbc.com/who-do-you-think-you-are/bios/sarahP.shtml |archive-date=February 9, 2010 }}

Parker has identified as culturally Jewish, like her father, although she has had no religious training. Her parents struggled to support their large family{{snd}} often the electricity could be shut off, or the family would have to forgo Christmases and birthdays for lack of money. She has stated: "I wouldn't change any of it, for anything{{nbsp}}... for the most part, we had everything we needed. Not always, but for the most part." Her mother immersed her children in culture and extracurricular activities. She often took them to free public institutions like the ballet and the theater in Cincinnati, so that they lived "full, rich lives", emulating the New York artistic scene.{{cite video| url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gMdDa6yrbcc |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/varchive/youtube/20211215/gMdDa6yrbcc |archive-date=December 15, 2021 |url-status=live| title=Sarah Jessica Parker On Her Impoverished Childhood, Raising Her Kids| author=PeopleTV| publisher=YouTube| date=June 11, 2017| access-date=February 11, 2018}}{{cbignore}}

As a young girl, Parker trained in singing and ballet, and was soon cast in the Broadway revival of William Archibald's play The Innocents.{{cite episode|title=Sarah Jessica Parker|series=Inside the Actors Studio|series-link=Inside the Actors Studio|first=James (host)|last=Lipton|network=Bravo|date=May 19, 2008|season=14|number=1}} Her family moved to Cincinnati and then to Dobbs Ferry, New York, near New York City, so that she could get specialized training. There, her mother and stepfather helped her develop her acting career. In 1977, the family moved to the newly opened planned community on Roosevelt Island, in the East River between Manhattan and Queens, then to Manhattan. They later moved to Englewood, New Jersey, where she attended Dwight Morrow High School.{{cite news|last=Klein|first=Alvin|title=Actress, 18, Has Some Regrets|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1983/10/30/nyregion/actress-18-has-some-regrets.html|access-date=February 18, 2014|newspaper=The New York Times|date=October 30, 1983|quote=Before attending Hollywood High School, she was a student at Dwight Morrow High School in Englewood. After living for a while on Roosevelt Island, between Manhattan and Queens, Mr. and Mrs. Forste bought a house in Englewood.}}

Parker attended the School of American Ballet in New York City,{{cite web|title=Sarah Jessica Parker Biography|url=http://www.biography.com/people/sarah-jessica-parker-9542042|website=The Biography Channel|publisher=A+E Networks|access-date=February 18, 2014}} the New York Professional Children's School, the School for Creative and Performing Arts in Cincinnati,{{cite news|last=Lyman|first=David|title=Sarah Jessica Parker – The Nutcracker Mouse Who Made The Biggest Roar|url=http://cincymagazine.com/Main/Articles/Sarah_Jessica_Parker_The_Nutcracker_Mouse_Who_Made_2766.aspx|access-date=February 18, 2014|newspaper=Cincy Magazine|date=December 2008 – January 2009|archive-date=February 22, 2014|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140222140001/http://cincymagazine.com/Main/Articles/Sarah_Jessica_Parker_The_Nutcracker_Mouse_Who_Made_2766.aspx|url-status=dead}} and Hollywood High School in Los Angeles.{{cite web|url=http://www.hollywoodhighschool.net/apps/pages/index.jsp?uREC_ID=63766&type=d&pREC_ID=108329|title=Notable Graduates – Alumni |website= Hollywood High School}}

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Parker and four siblings appeared in a production of The Sound of Music at the outdoor Municipal Theatre (Muny) in St. Louis, Missouri.[http://www.muny.org/content/view/52/42/ "History"] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090106140803/http://www.muny.org/content/view/52/42/ |date=January 6, 2009 }}, The Municipal Theatre She was selected for a role in the new 1977–81 Broadway musical Annie: first in the small role of "July" and then succeeding Andrea McArdle and Shelley Bruce in the lead role of the Depression-era orphan, beginning March 1979. Parker held the role for a year. In 1982, Parker obtained the lead role of the CBS sitcom Square Pegs, which lasted just one season. Her performance as a shy teen who showed hidden depths, nevertheless, was acclaimed by critics. In the three years that followed, Parker was cast in four films: the most significant being Footloose (1984) and Girls Just Want to Have Fun (1985), with Helen Hunt. In 1986, Parker appeared in Flight of the Navigator, a Disney science fiction film.{{cite web|title=Sarah Jessica Parker in Flight of the Navigator| date=February 8, 2012 |url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S9Ij_Z5Z9iI |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/varchive/youtube/20211215/S9Ij_Z5Z9iI |archive-date=2021-12-15 |url-status=live|publisher=Youtube|access-date=October 18, 2014}}{{cbignore}}

In the romantic comedy L.A. Story (1991), Parker took on the role of a ditzy aspiring spokesmodel meeting a television meteorologist; both the film and her performance garnered positive reviews. She would star with Nicolas Cage, as the girlfriend of a commitment-phobic man, in the film Honeymoon in Vegas (1992), and play one in a villainous trio of witches in the Disney fantasy family comedy Hocus Pocus (1993), alongside Bette Midler and Kathy Najimy. Honeymoon in Vegas was a critical success, earning US$35m while Hocus Pocus rated average with reviewers and made US$39 million in the US,{{cite web|url=https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/1045250-hocus_pocus/|title=Hocus Pocus|website=Rotten Tomatoes |date=April 22, 2003 |access-date=19 January 2017}}{{cite web|url=https://www.boxofficemojo.com/movies/?id=hocuspocus.htm |title=Hocus Pocus (1993) |publisher=Box Office Mojo |date=1993-10-22 |access-date=2017-01-12}} but became a cult film due to strong DVD sales and large television following.{{cite web|author=Cavan Sieczkowski |url=http://www.ibtimes.com/five-reasons-why-hocus-pocus-one-greatest-cult-classic-films-325484 |title=Five Reasons Why 'Hocus Pocus' is One of the Greatest Cult Classic Films |publisher=Ibtimes.com |date=1993-07-16 |access-date=2017-01-12}}{{cite web|url=https://www.yahoo.com/movies/the-magical-tale-of-how-hocus-pocus-went-from-144105863.html |title=The Magical Tale of How 'Hocus Pocus' Went From Box-Office Flop to Halloween Favorite |publisher=Yahoo.com |date=2015-10-28 |access-date=2017-01-12}} In 1993, she also starred as a police diver opposite Bruce Willis in the film Striking Distance, and in 1994, she appeared opposite Johnny Depp in the critically acclaimed biographical drama Ed Wood as the titular character's girlfriend, Dolores Fuller. She headlined the romantic comedy Miami Rhapsody (1995), playing a woman who has some misgivings about her fiancé, and starred in the off-Broadway play Sylvia, alongside future husband Matthew Broderick.

In 1996, she appeared in another Tim Burton-directed movie, Mars Attacks!, in which she made part of a large ensemble cast consisting of Jack Nicholson, Glenn Close, Pierce Brosnan, among others, portraying a chat-show host whose head is transposed with that of her chihuahua by the invading aliens. The romantic comedy The First Wives Club saw Parker take on the role of a dim-witted but manipulative fiancée, and also reunite with Hocus Pocus collaborator Bette Midler. The film was a critical darling and a major commercial success, grossing US$105{{nbsp}}million at the North American box office,{{mojo title|firstwivesclub|The First Wives Club}} and it developed a cult following among middle-aged women.Elizabeth Gleick. "Hell Hath No Fury", Time magazine. October 7, 1996[http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/1996/09/20/DD40582.DTL {{"'}}Wives' Get Even and Even More"], San Francisco Chronicle. September 20, 1996. Retrieved February 24, 2006. Her other 1996 release was The Substance of Fire, in which she reprised her 1991 stage role. In 1997, Parker appeared as a washed-up former child actress in the little seen comedy 'Til There Was You.{{cite web|last1=Ebert|first1=Roger|title='Til there was you|url=https://www.rogerebert.com/reviews/til-there-was-you-1997|access-date=October 18, 2014}}

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The script for the HBO dramedy series Sex and the City was sent to Parker. Set in New York City and based on Candace Bushnell's 1997 book of the same name, the show follows the lives of a group of four women—three in their mid-thirties and one in her forties—who, despite their different natures and ever-changing sex lives, remain inseparable and confide in each other. Creator Darren Star wanted her for the project, and despite some doubts about being cast in a long-term television series, she agreed to star. Her role was that of Carrie Bradshaw, the narrator and main protagonist, with each episode structured around her train of thought while writing her weekly column "Sex and the City" for the fictitious paper, the New York Star. The positive response to her performance during the show's run continued in the years immediately afterward. Bradshaw was widely popular during the run and later included in lists of the greatest female characters in American television history.{{cite web|url=http://www.bravotv.com/The_100_Greatest_TV_Characters//index.shtml |title=Bravo > 100 Greatest TV Characters |publisher=Bravo |access-date=November 11, 2006 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070717083958/http://www.bravotv.com/The_100_Greatest_TV_Characters//index.shtml |archive-date=July 17, 2007 |url-status=dead}}{{cite web|last=Cheng|first=Jim|title=Bravo to salute icons of the television age|url=http://usatoday30.usatoday.com/life/television/news/2004-11-07-bravo-100-tv-characters_x.htm|work=USA Today|access-date=February 1, 2013|date=November 7, 2004}}{{cite web|last=Potts|first=Kim|title=100 Most Memorable Female TV Characters|url=http://www.aoltv.com/2011/03/02/greatest-tv-women-50-26/|work=AOL TV|publisher=AOL, Inc|access-date=July 20, 2012|date=March 2, 2011|archive-date=September 26, 2013|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130926145720/http://www.aoltv.com/2011/03/02/greatest-tv-women-50-26/|url-status=dead}} In 2009, The Guardian named Bradshaw an icon of the decade: "Carrie Bradshaw did as much to shift the culture around certain women's issues as real-life female groundbreakers."{{cite news|first=Naomi|last=Wolf |url= https://www.theguardian.com/world/2009/dec/22/carrie-bradshaw-icons-of-decade |title=Carrie Bradshaw – Icons of the decade |newspaper=The Guardian |date= December 22, 2009|access-date=2009-12-22}} She received two Emmy Awards, three Screen Actors Guild Awards, and four Golden Globe Awards for her performance.

In late 2005, Parker reunited with First Wives Club co-star Diane Keaton for her first film in years, the seasonal family dramedy The Family Stone, in which she played an uptight, contemporary New York City career woman.{{cite web|agency=Associated Press |url=http://chronicle.augusta.com/stories/2005/08/15/mov_445579.shtml |title=Q&A with actress Rachel McAdams |publisher=chronicle.augusta.com |date=August 15, 2005 |access-date=January 11, 2012}}{{citation |issue=8429 |title=The Girl On Top |first=Judy |last=Bachrach |work=Allure |page=192 |date=November 2005}} James Berardinelli, in his review, wrote: "The talented cast helps. Sarah Jessica Parker, finding that there is life after Sex in the City, has no difficulty with [her role]'s arc. Of all the characters in the movie, she undergoes the biggest transformation, and Parker aces it".{{Cite web|url=https://www.reelviews.net/reelviews/family-stone-the|title=Family Stone, The|first=James|last=Berardinelli|website=Reelviews Movie Reviews}} Budgeted at US$18 million, it was a commercial success, grossing over US$92 million worldwide.{{cite web|url=https://www.boxofficemojo.com/movies/?id=familystone.htm |title=The Family Stone (2005) |publisher=Box Office Mojo |date=March 30, 2006 |access-date=January 11, 2012}} For her role, she received a Golden Globe nomination for Best Actress{{snd}} Comedy. Her next film was the romantic comedy Failure to Launch, starring with Matthew McConaughey as an interventionist hired to get a 35-year-old man out of the home of his parents. It was released on March 10, 2006, and opened atop in the North American box office, grossing over US$24 million on its opening weekend,{{cite web | title=13Wham.com | work=McConaughey & Parker's Film Soars to the Top | url=http://www.13wham.com/entertainment/story.aspx?content_id=8669C83F-4E19-465F-8D14-7B88D1FA0D53 | access-date=March 13, 2006 | url-status=dead | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131112131443/http://www.13wham.com/entertainment/story.aspx?content_id=8669C83F-4E19-465F-8D14-7B88D1FA0D53 | archive-date=November 12, 2013 | df=mdy-all }} despite negative reviews.{{cite web | title=Rotten Tomatoes | work=Failure to Launch | date=March 10, 2006 | url=https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/failure_to_launch/ | access-date=March 13, 2006}} Her work as a producer continued with her next starring vehicle, the independent drama Spinning into Butter (2007), based on the Rebecca Gilman play.{{cite web|title=Spinning Into Butter|url=http://www.metacritic.com/movie/spinning-into-butter/details|publisher=Metacritic|access-date=October 18, 2014}} The film Smart People (2008) premiered at the Sundance Film Festival and saw Parker portray a sympathetic doctor, opposite Dennis Quaid and Elliot Page.

Following the end of Sex and the City, rumors of a film version circulated, until preparations for a production were resumed in 2007, and the film was released on May 30, 2008. A sequel Sex and the City 2, was released in 2010.{{cite news|title=Sex and the City 2 (2010)|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2010/05/27/movies/27sex.html?pagewanted=all&_r=0|access-date=October 18, 2014|work=The New York Times|date=May 26, 2010|first=A. O.|last=Scott}}{{cite news|title=Movie Review: 'Sex and the City 2,' a bad trip to nowhere|url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/05/27/AR2010052701530.html|access-date=October 18, 2014|newspaper=Washington post|date=May 28, 2010|first=Ann|last=Hornaday}} Despite lukewarm critical responses, both films were commercially successful.{{Cite web|url=https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/sex_and_the_city|title=Sex and the City (2008)|date=May 30, 2008 |via=www.rottentomatoes.com}} In the interim, Parker teamed up with Hugh Grant for the romantic comedy Did You Hear About the Morgans? (2009), playing a recently separated New York power couple on the verge of divorce until they witness the murder of a man. While the film was a moderate commercial success,{{Cite web|url=https://www.boxofficemojo.com/release/rl2624357889/|title=Did You Hear About the Morgans?|website=Box Office Mojo}} Parker received a Razzie Award nomination for Worst Actress, and Roger Ebert, panning the film, noted: "I grant you Hugh Grant and Sarah Jessica Parker evoke charm in the right screenplay. This is the wrong screenplay".{{Cite web|url=https://www.rogerebert.com/reviews/did-you-hear-about-the-morgans-2009|title=Did You Hear About the Morgans? movie review (2009) | Roger Ebert|first=Roger|last=Ebert|website=www.rogerebert.com}} In 2011, Parker starred in I Don't Know How She Does It, described by critics as "[a] limp comedy with a hopelessly outdated viewpoint on gender, featuring Sarah Jessica Parker in rote Carrie-mode",{{cite web |url=https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/i_dont_know_how_she_does_it/ |title=I Don't Know How She Does It (2011)|work=Rotten Tomatoes |date=September 16, 2011 |publisher=Flixster, Inc. |access-date=May 28, 2018}} and also made part of a large ensemble cast in Garry Marshall's romantic comedy New Year's Eve (2011), which made US$142 million worldwide.{{cite web |url=https://www.boxofficemojo.com/movies/?id=newyearseve.htm |title=New Year's Eve (2011) |website=Box Office Mojo |access-date=November 13, 2017}} For Sex and the City 2 and her 2011 roles, she garnered nominations for the Razzie Award for Worst Actress.{{Cite web|url=http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000572/awards|title=Sarah Jessica Parker|website=IMDb}}

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Parker guest-starred on season 4 of FOX musical comedy series Glee as Isabelle Wright, a Vogue executive who takes Kurt Hummel under her wing after he graduates and moves to New York. Vulture, on one of its recaps of Glee, remarked: "[C]haracters who are big-eyed but a little broken inside and desperately in love with New York are what Sarah Jessica Parker does best. I don't think her stint on Glee will revolutionize the show or her career or anything, but she's absolutely an asset, and I'm glad she's onboard".{{Cite web|url=https://www.vulture.com/2012/09/glee-recap-season-4-episode-3.html|title=Glee Recap: Strip Debates and Couture Bunkers|first=Lauren|last=Hoffman|website=Vulture|date=September 28, 2012 }} In 2013, Parker provided her voice for one of the characters of the animated film Escape from Planet Earth, and played Gloria Steinem in deleted scenes of the biographical drama Lovelace. In 2015, she starred in the independent romantic comedy All Roads Lead to Rome, as an American journalist revisiting Italy with her rebellious daughter.

Beginning in late-2016, Parker executive produced and starred in the HBO dramedy series Divorce, as Frances Dufresne, a married woman who has an affair which precipitates her divorce.{{Cite web|title=Sarah Jessica Parker Officially Returning to HBO — 'Divorce' Ordered to Series|url=https://variety.com/2015/tv/news/divorce-series-order-sarah-jessica-parker-hbo-comedy-1201474099/|date=April 16, 2015|website=Variety|access-date=May 13, 2020}}{{Cite news|last=Blake|first=Meredith|date=July 30, 2016|title=With 'Divorce,' Sarah Jessica Parker makes a break from Carrie Bradshaw|work=Los Angeles Times|url=https://www.latimes.com/entertainment/tv/la-et-st-divorce-sarah-jessica-parker-tca-20160730-snap-story.html|access-date=May 13, 2020}} Drawn to the "complexity and promise" of the story{{Cite web|title=Sarah Jessica Parker Finds Hope in 'Divorce'|url=http://www.aarp.org/entertainment/television/info-2018/sarah-jessica-parker-interview.html|last=Kerr|first=Nancy|date=January 11, 2018|website=AARP}} she was also intrigued by the doubtful likability of her character, remarking: "I like that Frances is very real to me. She's both honorable and messy. She's both exacting and untethered, but I think she's a very real person."{{Cite web|url=https://www.indiewire.com/2018/01/sarah-jessica-parker-hbo-divorce-season-2-changes-1201917152/|title=Sarah Jessica Parker on the 'Divorce' Season 2 Makeover and the Big Thing That Didn't Need to Change|first1=Ben|last1=Travers|date=January 14, 2018}} The series ran for three seasons and earned acclaim from critics; The A.V. Club noted: "Parker's gift, even on Sex and the City, has always been a well-timed comeback or a reaction shot. [Her character] is not a reboot of Carrie Bradshaw, but she doesn't exactly force the actor to stray from her comfort zone, either. That's not necessarily a bad thing: It's a pleasure to see her back, shaking her head at just the right moment".{{Cite web|url=https://www.avclub.com/divorce-doesn-t-get-as-nasty-as-it-should-1798189049|title=Divorce doesn't get as nasty as it should|website=TV Club|date=October 5, 2016 }} For her role, she earned a Golden Globe nomination.{{cite news|date=December 12, 2016|title=Golden Globe Nominations Announcement Livestream|website=Deadline Hollywood|url=https://deadline.com/2016/12/2016-golden-globe-nominations-announcement-livestream-video-1201868548/|access-date=December 12, 2016}}

In 2018, Parker headlined and produced the independent drama Here and Now, playing a New York City singer who gets a life-changing medical diagnosis.{{Cite web|title=Sarah Jessica Parker to Star, Sing in AMBI Drama (Exclusive)|url=https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/sarah-jessica-parker-star-sing-927355|last=Siegel|first=Tatiana|date=September 11, 2016|website=The Hollywood Reporter|access-date=May 13, 2020}}{{Cite web|title=Tribeca: Sarah Jessica Parker Talks "Terrifying" Singing in 'Blue Night'|url=https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/sarah-jessica-parker-singing-blue-night-tribeca-film-festival-2018-1104461|last=Gray|first=Katie|date=April 20, 2018|website=The Hollywood Reporter}}{{Cite web|title=Sarah Jessica Parker's 'Here And Now' To Hit Theaters In November In AMBI & Paramount Deal|url=https://deadline.com/2018/08/sarah-jessica-parker-here-and-now-movie-release-date-paramount-ambi-1202447027/|last=Hipes|first=Patrick|date=August 16, 2018|website=Deadline|access-date=May 13, 2020}}

In February 2020, Parker and her husband, Broderick, starred in a revival of Neil Simon's Plaza Suite at Boston's Colonial Theatre for two weeks.{{Cite web|title=Sarah Jessica Parker And Matthew Broderick Take The Stage In 'Plaza Suite'|url=https://www.wbur.org/hereandnow/2020/02/18/sarah-jessica-parker-matthew-broderick-plaza-suite|last1=Hobson|first1=Jeremy|last2=Hagan|first2=Allison|date=February 18, 2020|website=WBUR|access-date=May 13, 2020}} Previews at the Hudson Theatre had been set for March 2020 and its official debut was scheduled for April 2020, but this was later postponed due to the COVID-19 pandemic.{{Cite web|title=Matthew Broderick & Sarah Jessica Parker To Star In Broadway Revival Of Neil Simon's 'Plaza Suite'|url=https://deadline.com/2019/09/matthew-broderick-sarah-jessica-parker-neil-simon-plaza-suite-broadway-revival-1202730599/|last=Evans|first=Greg|date=September 10, 2019|website=Deadline|access-date=May 13, 2020}}{{Cite web|title=Broadway's 'Plaza Suite' Starring Matthew Broderick And Sarah Jessica Parker Postpones Opening For A Year|url=https://deadline.com/2020/05/broadway-plaza-suite-matthew-broderick-sarah-jessica-parker-postpone-2021-1202932556/|last=Evans|first=Greg|date=May 12, 2020|website=Deadline|access-date=May 13, 2020}}

And Just Like That..., the Sex and the City revival, was confirmed by HBO Max in January 2021. The first season premiered on December 9, 2021.{{Cite web|url=https://tvline.com/2021/11/12/sex-and-the-city-revival-premiere-date-teaser-and-just-like-that/|title=HBO Max's Sex and the City Revival, And Just Like That, Sets December Premiere Date — Watch New Teaser|work=TVLine|first=Andy|last=Swift|date=November 12, 2021|access-date=November 12, 2021}}

Parker has been labeled as a fashion icon by many publications.{{cite web|url=https://www.instyle.com/fashion/clothing/sarah-jessica-parkers-25-most-memorable-looks-ever|title=Sarah Jessica Parker's 60 Most Memorable Looks Ever|date=February 16, 2023|access-date=June 2, 2024}}{{cite web|url=https://www.vogue.co.uk/fashion/gallery/sarah-jessica-parker-best-looks|title=10 of Sarah Jessica Parker's Greatest Looks Of All Time|author=Alex Kessler|date=March 25, 2023|access-date=June 2, 2024}}{{cite web|url=https://www.vogue.com/slideshow/sarah-jessica-parker-birthday-best-fashion-moments|title=At 59, Sarah Jessica Parker Is At the Top of Her Style Game|author=Christian Allaire|date=March 25, 2024|access-date=June 2, 2024}}

In 2000, Parker hosted the MTV Movie Awards in 14 different outfits.{{cite web|url=https://www.questia.com/read/1G1-62487540|title=OTR: OFF THE RECORD; It's Sarah Dressica Parker. MTV Awards Host Wows Stars with 14 Racy Outfits}} She has also become the face of many of the world's biggest fashion brands through her work in a variety of advertising campaigns. In August 2003, Parker signed a lucrative deal with Garnier to appear in TV and print advertising promoting their Nutrisse hair products.{{cite web|title=Garnier Commercial|url=http://sarahjparker.hollywood.com/commercial/garnier-commercial/|access-date=October 18, 2014|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://archive.today/20141018003130/http://sarahjparker.hollywood.com/commercial/garnier-commercial/|archive-date=October 18, 2014|df=mdy-all}}

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In early 2004, shortly after the last season of Sex and the City wrapped up, Parker signed a $38 million contract with the Gap.[https://web.archive.org/web/20081013235201/http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A58606-2005Mar22.html "40, but Sporting a $39 Million Figure"] March 23, 2005, Washington Post It was the first multi-season contract in the clothing company's history, in which Parker was to appear in their upcoming fall ads, and continue until the spring of 2005. The endorsement sparked many levels of criticism from the public; the glamorous, urban-chic fashionista that her character Carrie Bradshaw has branded her with, was ironic considering the Gap maintains an image that does not promote high-end fashion.{{cite journal|url=http://muse.jhu.edu/journals/sho/summary/v025/25.4byers.html/|title=Project MUSE|journal=Shofar: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Jewish Studies|year=2007|volume=25|issue=4|pages=43–63|doi=10.1353/sho.2007.0103|last1=Byers|first1=Michele|last2=Krieger|first2=Rosalin|s2cid=143836315|url-access=subscription}} Wendy Liebmann, president of WSL strategic retail, suggested Gap executives "felt the need for an iconic but contemporary face to represent [themselves]. They were perhaps feeling a little insecure, a little in need of some high luster around the brand". The ad campaigns were a success, she having given the Gap a fresh face that appeared in many commercials and promotions.{{cite news|title=Gap can't fill Sarah Jessica void|url=http://www.adweek.com/adfreak/gap-can-t-fill-sarah-jessica-void-20868|access-date=October 18, 2014|publisher=adweek.com|date=March 29, 2005|author=Catharine P. Taylor}}

In March 2005, Parker's contract with the Gap ended, and she was replaced with then 17-year-old British soul singer Joss Stone. A rising star at the time, Stone's replacing of Parker was a puzzling move to the public. The company then stated: "While Gap will always seek partnerships with celebrities, musicians and rising stars, we don't have any future plans to sign a single person to a multi-season deal like the unique and special relationship we enjoyed with Sarah Jessica".{{cite web|url=http://www.andpop.com/2005/03/23/gap-replaces-sarah-jessica-parker-with-joss-stone/|title=ANDPOP - Gap Replaces Sarah Jessica Parker with Joss Stone}}

Parker released her own perfume in 2005, called Lovely. In March 2007, Parker announced the launch of her own fashion line, "Bitten",{{cite web|url=http://www.bittensjp.com/ |title=bittensjp.com |publisher=bittensjp.com |access-date=March 27, 2010}} in partnership with discount clothing chain Steve & Barry's.[http://www.enjoyfashion.com/celebrities/celebrity-fashion/parker-is-launching-fashion-line-20070314-79.html Actress Sarah Jessica Parker is launching her own fashion line] EnjoyFashion, March 14, 2007 The line, featuring clothing items and accessories under $20, launched on June 7, 2007, exclusively at Steve and Barry's.[http://www.fashionweekdaily.com/news/fullstory.sps?iNewsid=410739&itype=8486 "Bitten Revealed!"] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070518011017/http://www.fashionweekdaily.com/news/fullstory.sps?inewsid=410739&itype=8486 |date=May 18, 2007 }}, Fashion Week Daily, March 13, 2007 In July 2007, following the success of Lovely, Parker released her second fragrance, Covet. In 2007, Parker was a guest on Project Runway for the second challenge.{{cite web|url=http://www.caseofthecovetedbottle.com/ |title=caseofthecovetedbottle.com |publisher=caseofthecovetedbottle.com |date=February 18, 2010 |access-date=March 27, 2010}} In 2008, Covet Pure Bloom was released as continuous series of Covet.{{cite web |url=http://www.feelingsexy.com.au/description.aspx?brandid=14480&designer=SARAH%20JESSICA%20PARKER&gen=F |title=Feeling Sexy – Pure Bloom Perfume by Sarah Jessica Parker |publisher=feelingsexy.com.au |access-date=April 6, 2010 |archive-date=April 11, 2011 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110411020936/http://www.feelingsexy.com.au/description.aspx?brandid=14480&designer=SARAH%20JESSICA%20PARKER&gen=F |url-status=dead }} In February 2009, as part of the Lovely collection, Parker launched a series of three new fragrances called Dawn, Endless, and Twilight.{{cite web|url=http://www.fragrancedirect.co.uk/s/sarah-jessica-parker/icat/sarahjessicaparker/|title=Sarah Jessica Parker}}

On February 28, 2014, Parker started the SJP Collection, a footwear line, at Nordstrom.{{cite web | url=http://www.wwd.com/media-news/digital/sjp-shoe-line-gets-social-media-push-7511211?src=nl/mornReport/20140226 | title=SJP Shoe Line Gets Social Media Push | publisher=WWD | date=February 26, 2014 | access-date=February 26, 2014 | author=Strugatz, Rachel}} In June 2015, she was named the new spokesmodel for Jordache Jeans.{{cite web|url=http://wwd.com/fashion-news/denim/sarah-jessica-parker-jordache-jeans-10146388/|title=Jordache Signs Sarah Jessica Parker|author=Lisa Lockwood|work=WWD|date=June 9, 2015}} In April 2018, Parker partnered with Gilt to launch her ready-to-wear bridal collection for modern nontraditional brides.{{Cite news|url=https://www.glamour.com/story/sarah-jessica-parker-ready-to-wear-bridal-collection|title=Sarah Jessica Parker Designed a "Nontraditional" Bridal Line That Carrie Bradshaw Would Swoon Over|last=Park|first=Andrea|work=Glamour|access-date=2018-07-18|language=en}}

In November 2023, Parker teamed up with Lele Sadoughi to curate a collection of accessories including brooches, headbands and more.{{Cite magazine |last=Betancourt |first=Bianca |date=November 9, 2023 |title=Sarah Jessica Parker Wants You to Embrace the Shoe Brooch |url=https://www.harpersbazaar.com/fashion/trends/a45780012/sarah-jessica-parker-lele-sadoughi-collab-interview/ |access-date=August 17, 2024 |magazine=Harper's Bazaar}}{{Cite web |last=Lee |first=Michelle |date=November 9, 2023 |title=Sarah Jessica Parker Debuts Chic Shoe Clips, Hair Bows and More with Lele Sadoughi: 'We've Worked Hard' |url=https://people.com/sarah-jessica-parker-talks-new-accessories-collection-with-lele-sadoughi-exclusive-8399895 |access-date=August 17, 2024 |website=People}}

Parker runs a production company, Pretty Matches, which has created content for HBO and other channels since 2009.AP, [https://www.cbsnews.com/news/sex-star-hbo-a-pretty-match/ 'Sex' Star, HBO A 'Pretty Match'], February 11, 2009, CBS via AP She founded the company in 2005 with Alison Benson, following an introduction from her agent Kevin Huvane. Through it, they produced the series Divorce (2016–2019) and the film Here and Now (2018). The company aims to increase female representation in media production.{{Cite web|title=Why Sarah Jessica Parker's Producing Partner Is Hiring More Women|url=https://www.forbes.com/sites/clairecoghlan/2018/05/05/why-sarah-jessica-parkers-producing-partner-is-hiring-more-women/#2fef15f448cc|last=Coghlan|first=Claire|date=May 5, 2018|website=Forbes}}{{Cite web|title=Divorce - Five Lessons From Sarah Jessica Parker and the Producer's Guild Panel|url=https://www.hbo.com/divorce/season-01/sarah-jessica-parker-produced-by-new-york-panel-2017-divorce|website=HBO|access-date=November 30, 2018|archive-date=January 21, 2022|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220121230333/https://www.hbo.com/divorce/season-01/sarah-jessica-parker-produced-by-new-york-panel-2017-divorce|url-status=dead}}

In 2025, Parker served as an executive producer on the documentary The Librarians focusing on librarians combating Book banning in the United States.{{cite web|url=https://variety.com/2024/film/global/sarah-jessica-parker-the-librarians-sundance-executive-producer-1236246900/|title=Sarah Jessica Parker on Producing Sundance Doc About Librarians Fighting Book Bans: 'They Have Put Their Lives at Risk'|website=Variety|first=Martin|last=Dale|date=December 12, 2024|access-date=January 26, 2025}} In May 2025, Parker received the PEN/Audible Literary Service Award from PEN America at a gala in New York City, being called an “indispensable defender” of the freedom to read, both for this documentary and "for uplifting underrepresented voices through her own publishing imprint SJP Lit."{{Cite web |date=2025-05-16 |title=AT NYC Gala PEN America Honors Champions of Free Expression Including Sarah Jessica Parker, Macmillan Publishers CEO Jon Yaged and Wesleyan University President Michael Roth |url=https://pen.org/press-release/at-nyc-gala-pen-america-honors-champions-of-free-expression-including-sarah-jessica-parker-macmillan-publishers-ceo-jon-yaged-and-wesleyan-university-president-michael-roth/ |access-date=2025-05-17 |website=PEN America |language=en-US}}

In October 2016, Parker announced an imprint with Crown Publishing Group, SJP for Hogarth,{{Cite web|title=Sarah Jessica Parker to Launch New Line of Fiction Books|url=http://crownpublishing.com/archives/news/sarah-jessica-parker-launch-new-line-fiction-books|date=October 7, 2016|work=The Crown Publishing Group|access-date=2018-06-25}} and in 2017, her partnership with American Library Association (ALA) to create Book Club Central, a new online platform that will provide reading resources, including recommendations, expert-curated book lists, and other content for book clubs and readers.Nivea Serrao,

[https://ew.com/books/2017/02/15/sarah-jessica-parker-partner-ala/ Sarah Jessica Parker to partner with the American Library Association], February 15, 2017, EW.COM In June 2023, she partnered with an independent publisher Zando to create her own imprint, SJP Lit.{{Cite web |title=Sarah Jessica Parker |url=https://pen.org/profile/sarah-jessica-parker/ |access-date=2025-05-17 |website=PEN America |language=en-US}}

In 2019, Parker entered into a collaboration partnership with New Zealand winery Invivo & Co to produce a range of wines.{{Cite web|title=Invivo collaborates with Sarah Jessica Parker|date=March 12, 2019 |url=https://www.theshout.co.nz/videos/sarah-jessica-parker-teams-up-with-invivo/}} Together each year they produce a vintage, award-winning Invivo X, Sarah Jessica Parker Sauvignon Blanc, from Marlborough New Zealand; and the Invivo X, Sarah Jessica Parker Rosé from Provence.{{Cite web|last=Shaw|first=Lucy|date=11 March 2019|title=SARAH JESSICA PARKER TO MAKE PROVENCE ROSÉ|url=https://www.thedrinksbusiness.com/2019/03/sarah-jessica-parker-to-make-provence-rose/|website=The drinks business}}

Parker was in a relationship with actor Robert Downey Jr. from 1984 until 1991. They met on the set of Firstborn. His drug problem affected their relationship. She said: "I believed I was the person holding him together."{{cite web | website=Entertainment Wise | title=Sarah Jessica Parker Knows All About Addiction | url=http://www.entertainmentwise.com/news?id=14640 | access-date=March 15, 2006 | archive-date=February 8, 2016 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160208052803/http://www.entertainmentwise.com/news/?id=14640 | url-status=dead }} She later briefly dated John F. Kennedy Jr.Landau, pp. 94-95.

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Parker married actor Matthew Broderick on May 19, 1997, in Manhattan's Lower East Side, in an Episcopal ceremony officiated by Broderick's sister, Rev. Janet Broderick Kraft.{{cite news|url=https://people.com/archive/love-stealth-vol-47-no-21/|title=Love & Stealth|author=|date=June 2, 1997|access-date=May 16, 2019|work=People|volume=47|issue=21| archive-date= May 21, 2017|archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20170521221930/https://people.com/archive/love-stealth-vol-47-no-21/|url-status=live}}{{Cite news|url=https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2020-04-05/episcopal-priest-janet-broderick-battles-coronavirus|title=Over Lent, this Beverly Hills priest battled coronavirus: 'I didn't know what plans Jesus had for me'|last=Goffard|first=Christopher|date=2020-04-05|newspaper=Los Angeles Times|language=en-US|access-date=2020-04-09}} The couple had been introduced by one of her brothers at the Naked Angels theater company, where she and Broderick both performed.{{cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2006/05/14/theater/14hoba.html |title=For Naked Angels, the Party's Over. Time to Get Serious Again|work=The New York Times|date= May 14, 2006|first=Phoebe|last=Hoban}} Their son James Joseph Broderick IV was born October 28, 2002.{{cite news|url= https://people.com/celebrity/parker-and-broderick-name-baby-james/|title=Parker and Broderick Name Baby James|first= Mark|last=Armstrong|work=People|date=November 1, 2002|access-date=May 16, 2019}}{{cite web|url=https://www.instagram.com/sarahjessicaparker/p/9Y1XlpiYN1/|title=A day I would happily relive. Over and over. Happy 13th birthday my favorite and beloved son. You bring us such enormous joy and we love you so. XXX, Mama and Papa|website=Instagram|author=Parker, Sarah Jessica |date=October 28, 2015|access-date=February 3, 2019}} Their twin daughters, Marion and Tabitha, were born June 22, 2009, via surrogacy.{{cite news|last=Fleeman|first=Mike|url= https://people.com/parents/sarah-jessica-parker-and-matthew-broderick-reveal-twins-names/|title=Sarah Jessica Parker and Matthew Broderick Reveal Twins' Names|work=People|date=June 23, 2009}}{{cite web|last=Mitovich|first=Matt|date=June 23, 2009|url=https://www.tvguide.com/News/Parker-Broderick-twins-1007199.aspx|title=Sarah Jessica Parker and Matthew Broderick Welcome Twin Girls|work=TV Guide|access-date=June 23, 2009}} Their respective middle names, Elwell and Hodge, are from maternal ancestors she discovered in the first episode of Who Do You Think You Are?, which originally aired March 5, 2010.{{cite news|url=https://people.com/parents/sarah-jessica-parker-and-matthew-broderick-reveal-twins-names/|title=Sarah Jessica Parker and Matthew Broderick Reveal Twins' Names|work=People|access-date=June 23, 2009}}

Since 2009, Parker has lived in Greenwich Village with her husband and children.{{cite news |last1=Halberg |first1=Morgan |title=Sarah Jessica Parker and Matthew Broderick Just Bought a $34.5M West Village Mega-Mansion |url=https://observer.com/2016/06/sarah-jessica-parker-and-matthew-broderick-just-bought-a-34-5m-west-village-megamansion/ |access-date=13 February 2019 |work=Observer |date=June 8, 2016}} In 2017, it was reported that the couple was combining two townhouses they had purchased for $35 million on West 11th Street in 2016, with renovations continuing into 2019.{{Cite web|title=Sarah Jessica Parker and Matthew Broderick Are Combining Two West Village Townhouses|url=https://www.townandcountrymag.com/leisure/real-estate/a10032625/sarah-jessica-parker-and-matthew-broderick-west-village-house/|last=Dangremond|first=Sam|date=June 16, 2017|website=Town & Country}}{{cite news |last1=Clarke |first1=Katherine |title=Sarah Jessica Parker, Liv Tyler and More: A Power Block in Greenwich Village |url=https://www.wsj.com/articles/sarah-jessica-parker-liv-tyler-and-more-a-power-block-in-greenwich-village-11550159465 |access-date=28 February 2019 |work=The Wall Street Journal |date=February 14, 2019}} The family also spends considerable time at their second home near Kilcar, a village in County Donegal, Ireland, where Broderick spent summers as a child.{{cite news| url= http://www.derryjournal.com/journal/Star39s-could-fight-for-Donegal.4861423.jp | title=Stars could fight for Donegal home| date=January 9, 2009| work= Derry Journal}}

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Parker received ten Emmy Award nominations, all for Sex and the City, winning Outstanding Comedy Series (as producer) in 2001 and Outstanding Lead Actress in a Comedy Series in 2004.{{cite web|title=Sarah Jessica Parker wins 2004 Emmy Award for Lead Actress in a Comedy Series| date=November 16, 2013 |url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vfbAAhUx92I |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/varchive/youtube/20211215/vfbAAhUx92I |archive-date=2021-12-15 |url-status=live|publisher=Youtube|access-date=October 18, 2014}}{{cbignore}}{{cite web|title=Sarah Jessica Parker: Awards and nominations|url=http://www.emmys.com/bios/sarah-jessica-parker|publisher=emmys.com|access-date=October 18, 2014}}{{cite web|title=Sarah Jessica Parker|url=https://www.msn.com/en-us/entertainment/people/sarah-jessica-parker/awards-nominations/AA3lBAx|publisher=msn|access-date=October 18, 2014}} She also received nine Golden Globe nominations, with four wins (all for Sex and the City) in 2000, 2001, 2002 and 2004.{{cite web|title=Sarah Jessica Parker: Golden Globes: 9 Nominations, Wins: 4|url=http://www.goldenglobes.com/person/sarah-jessica-parker|publisher=Goldenglobes.com|access-date=February 2, 2017}} Some of her critically acclaimed and commercially successful films are:{{Cite web|url=https://www.boxofficemojo.com/name/nm0000572/|title=Sarah Jessica Parker|website=Box Office Mojo}}

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• Footloose (1984)
• Girls Just Want to Have Fun (1985)
• Flight of the Navigator (1986)
• L.A. Story (1991)
• Honeymoon in Vegas (1992)
• Hocus Pocus (1993)
• Ed Wood (1994)
• The First Wives Club (1996)
• Mars Attacks! (1996)
• The Family Stone (2005)
• Failure to Launch (2006)
• Sex and the City (2008)
• Sex and the City 2 (2010)
• New Year's Eve (2011)
• Escape from Planet Earth (2013)

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