Sarah Jessica Parker

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Sarah Jessica Parker Biography

Sarah Jessica Parker (born March 25, 1965) is an American actress, producer, with a portfolio of television, movie, and theater performances. She is best known for her role as Carrie Bradshaw, a newspaper journalist, on the HBO television series Sex and the City, for which she won four Golden Globe Awards and two Emmy Awards.

Parker was born in Nelsonville, Ohio, to Stephen Parker, and Barbara. Her parents divorced early on in Parker's life and her mother remarried Paul Forste, who was 19. Parker grew up with her mother, stepfather and seven siblings. 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 properly; her parents later moved to Englewood, New Jersey where she attended Dwight Morrow High School.