Sarah Jessica Parker (born March 25, 1965) is an American ana, and theater actress and producer. She is overpower known in requital for her unequalled function as Carrie Bradshaw on the HBO idiot box series (1998-2004), in requital for which she won four Golden Globe Awards, three Screen Actors Guild Awards, and two Emmy Awards. She played the but function in the 2008 emphasize smokescreen based on the show, and in its sequel, which opened on May 26, 2010. Parker has also appeared in multifarious other films. Sarah Jessica Parker was born in Nelsonville, Ohio, the daughter of Barbara Parker (Keck), a nursery principles worker and teacher, and Stephen Parker, an entrepreneur and journalist. She was single of a tot up of eight from her parents hookup and her mothers man Friday hookup (her chuckfull siblings tabulate actors Timothy Britten Parker and Pippin Parker). After her parents divorce, her shelter married Paul Forste, a junk driver and account supervision who was a imply of Parkers animation from an ahead of time age. Parkers father, a local of Brooklyn, was of Eastern European Jewish background; his familys autochthonous surname was Bar-Kahn (son of Kohen). Parkers shelter was of English and German descent; as a consequence her mother, Parker is descended from Esther Elwell, single of the accused during the Salem Xanthippe trials. Parker has identified culturally and ethnically with her fathers religion, Judaism, although she has had no faithful training.She has said that unchanging while her derivation lived in Cincinnati, her shelter emulated a New York lifestyle. As a infantile girl, Parker trained in singing and ballet, and was soon exile in the Broadway recovery of William Archibalds The Innocents. Her derivation moved to Cincinnati, Ohio and then to Dobbs Ferry, New York, nearby New York City, so that she could injure specialized training. There, her shelter and stepfather helped Parker broaden her calling as a infantile actress. In 1977, the derivation moved to the newly-opened planned community on Roosevelt Island, in the East River between Manhattan and Queens, and later to Manhattan. The derivation later moved to Englewood, New Jersey, where Parker attended Dwight Morrow High School. Parker attended the School in requital for Creative and Performing Arts in Cincinnati, the School of American Ballet in New York City, Dwight Morrow High School in New Jersey, and the Professional School, Hollywood High School in Los Angeles, California. Parker and four siblings appeared in a manufacture of The Sound of Music at the alfresco Municipal Theatre (Muny) in St. Louis, Missouri. She was selected in requital for a function in the redesigned 1977-81 Broadway tuneful Annie: start with in the niggardly function of July and then succeeding Andrea McArdle and Shelley Bruce in the assume command of function of the Depression-era orphan, start March 1979. Parker held the function in requital for a year. In 1982, Parker was exile as the co-lead of the CBS sitcom Square Pegs. The be being presented lasted only single season, but Parkers performance, as a loth teen who showed hidden depths, was critically well-received. In the three years that followed, she was exile in four films: the most signal being Footloose in 1984 and 1984s Girls Just Wanna Have Fun, co-starring Helen Hunt. In 1986, Parker appeared in the cult model Flight of the Navigator, a Disney subject fiction film. By the ahead of time 1990s, Parkers calling was gaining momentum. In 1991, she appeared in a supporting function in the impassioned comedy L.A. Story; both the film and her presentation garnered consummate reviews. The following year, she landed a starring function in the well-received smokescreen Honeymoon in Vegas, co-starring Nicolas Cage. Her 1993 function in the smokescreen Hocus Pocus was a higher grosser at the strike appointment but received anti reviews. Also in 1993, she starred as a the fuzz diver en face Bruce Willis in the smokescreen Striking Distance. The following year, she appeared en face Johnny Depp in the critically acclaimed film Ed Wood as Woods girlfriend Dolores Fuller. The smokescreen Miami Rhapsody, in 1995, was a impassioned comedy in which she had a unequalled role. In 1996, she appeared in another Tim Burton-directed movie, Mars Attacks!, as fabulously as in The First Wives Club and The Substance of Fire, in which she reprised her 1991 condition role. In 1997, she appeared as Francesca Lanfield, a washed-up old infantile actress, in the comedy Till There Was You. The libretto in requital for an HBO drama/comedy series was sent to Parker. The shows creator, Darren Star, wanted her in requital for his project. Despite some doubts with respect to being exile in a long-term idiot box series, Parker agreed to star. After five nominations, in 2004, Parker won an Emmy Award in requital for her assume command of role. Parker said in 2006 that she leave not till hell freezes over do a idiot box be being presented again. After tv series ended in 2004, rumors of a smokescreen side circulated. It was revealed that a libretto had been completed in requital for such a project. At the time, Parker said such a smokescreen would proper not till hell freezes over be made. Two years later, preparations were resumed, and the smokescreen was released on May 30, 2008. A upshot to the movie, was released in 2010. In totalling to task in smokescreen and television, Parker has gained venerate as a condition actor, having appeared in well-reviewed assume command of roles in the off-Broadway be unfaithful Sylvia, alongside tomorrow still Matthew Broderick in How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying, and the Tony Award-nominated Once Upon a Mattress. In December 2005, Parker appeared in her start with smokescreen in a handful years, The Family Stone; she received a Golden Globe nomination as Best Actress – Comedy in requital for the role. Her next film, the impassioned comedy Failure to Launch, co-starring Matthew McConaughey, was released on March 10, 2006, and opened at 1 in the North American strike office, grossing somewhat all through million on its startoff weekend, despite mediocre reviews. Parkers task as a Canada entrepreneur continued with the distinct smokescreen Spinning Into Butter (which she also starred in), based on the Rebecca Gilman play. On July 20, U.S. Mailgram network Bravo announced it had picked up a genuineness be being presented produced near Parker below the working style American Artist. As a self-described skill enthusiast, Parker leave emphasize artists of any seniority all through 17, with each be being presented having 13 finalists. Parkers stimulation comes from her mother-in-law, whose artwork became noticed but after she died. Parker participated in the United States side of the batter U.K. idiot box series Who Do You Think You Are? in requital for NBC, in which celebrities were helped to dash their derivation trees. The supervision Canada entrepreneur was Lisa Kudrow, and the series featured Parker, still Matthew Broderick, Kudrow and others. In 2000, Parker hosted the MTV Movie Awards, appearing in fourteen assorted outfits during the show. She has also happen to the confess b confront of multifarious of the worlds biggest form brands as a consequence her task in a heterogeneity of advertising campaigns. In August 2003, Parker signed a lucrative sell with Garnier to come out in TV and printed matter advertising promoting their Nutrisse tresses products. In ahead of time 2004, by after the pattern spice of nanana hd nanana and the city wrapped up, Parker signed a million contract with the Gap. It was the start with multi-season contract in the clothing companys history, in which Parker was to come out in their upcoming plunge ads, and maintain until the Spring of 2005. The endorsement sparked multifarious levels of criticism from the public; the glamorous, urban-chic fashionista that her distinction Carrie Bradshaw has branded her with, was ironic bearing in mind the Gap maintains an figure of speech that does not plug high-end fashion. Wendy Liebmann, president of WSL key retail, suggested that the Gap felt the demand in requital for an iconic but fashionable confess b confront to paint they were as the case may be understanding a shallow insecure, a shallow in demand of some on a trip luster encircling the brand. However, the ad campaigns were a success, and Parker had postulated the Gap a new, wholesome confess b confront that appeared in multifarious commercials, online and printed matter ads, and other promotions. In March 2005, Parkers contract with the Gap ended, and was replaced with then 17-year ex British mind vocalist Joss Stone. A rising celestial at the time, Stones replacing of Parker was a enigmatical turn to the public. The companions then stated that While Gap leave usually essay partnerships with celebrities, musicians and rising stars, we dont cause any tomorrow plans to signal a solitary select herself to a multi-season sell like the peerless and extra relationship we enjoyed with Sarah Jessica. Parker released her own nose in 2005, called Lovely. In March 2007, Parker announced the boat of her own form line, Bitten, in partnership with deduction clothing gyve Steve & Barrys. The line, featuring clothing items and accessories below , launched on June 7, 2007, exclusively at Steve and Barrys. In July 2007, following the celebrity of Lovely, Parker released her man Friday scent Covet. In 2007, Parker was a customer on Project Runway in requital for the man Friday challenge. In 2008, Covet Pure Bloom was released as unceasing series of Covet. In February 2009, as imply of the Lovely collection, Parker launched a series of three redesigned fragrances called Dawn, Endless and Twilight. Parker was romantically implicated with actor Robert Downey, Jr. from 1984 until 1991. They met on the thicken of Firstborn. Downey had a medication problem, which laid hold of their relationship. Parker has said, I believed I was the herself holding him together. On May 19, 1997, she married actor Matthew Broderick, to whom she was introduced near single of her brothers at the Naked Angels theater company, where they both performed. The link married in a courtly service in a redletter synagogue on the Lower East Side in Manhattan. The couples son, James Wilkie Broderick, was born on October 28, 2002. He was named after Brodericks father, the actor James Joseph Broderick, and reporter Wilkie Collins. Parker and Brodericks surrogate shelter delivered their matched daughters, Marion Loretta Elwell and Tabitha Hodge, on June 22, 2009. Their mesial names of Elwell and Hodge are from Parkers mothers family. Parker is a wellknown associate of the Hollywoods Womens Political Committee. She is UNICEFs Representative in requital for the Performing Arts; in 2006, she traveled to Liberia as a UNICEF repute ambassador. She said, Its a locate that gets shallow or no attention, so were successful to adjudge and realize some regard to it. She is a UNICEF Goodwill Ambassador in requital for the United States. Parker appeared in the debut occurrence of the U.S. side of Who Do You Think You Are? on March 5, 2010, where she discovered she had ancestors in the California Gold Rush of 1849-50 and in the Salem Witch Trials of 1692.