Sarah Jessica Parker
Acting • Born 1965-03-25
Biography
Sarah Jessica Parker (born March 25, 1965) is an American actress and television producer. She is the recipient of numerous accolades, including six Golden Globe Awards and two Primetime Emmy Awards. Time magazine named her one of the 100 most influential people in the world in 2022. She is known for her role as Carrie Bradshaw on the HBO television series Sex and the City (1998–2004), for which she won two Emmy Awards, four Golden Globe Awards for Best Actress in a Comedy Series and three Screen Actors Guild Awards. The character was widely popular during the airing of the series and was later recognized as one of the greatest female characters in American television. She later reprised the role in films Sex and the City (2008) and Sex and the City 2 (2010), as well as the television show And Just Like That... (2021–present). Parker made her Broadway debut at the age of 11 in the 1976 revival of The Innocents, before going on to star in the title role of the Broadway musical Annie in 1979. She made her first major film appearances in the 1984 dramas Footloose and Firstborn. Her other film roles include L.A. Story (1991), Honeymoon in Vegas (1992), Hocus Pocus (1993), Ed Wood (1994), The First Wives Club (1996), The Family Stone (2005), Failure to Launch (2006), Did You Hear About the Morgans? (2009), and New Year's Eve (2011). In 2012, Parker returned to television for the first time since Sex and the City, portraying Isabelle Wright in three episodes of the FOX series Glee. She starred as Frances Dufresne in the HBO series Divorce (2016–2019), for which she was nominated for a Golden Globe Award. Since 2005, she has run her own production company, Pretty Matches, which has been creating content for HBO and other channels.
Filmography
132 credits
Mars Attacks!
Movie • 1996
Nathalie Lake
Ed Wood
Movie • 1994
Dolores Fuller
L.A. Story
Movie • 1991
SanDeE
Footloose
Movie • 1984
Rusty
If Lucy Fell
Movie • 1996
Lucy Ackerman
Flight of the Navigator
Movie • 1986
Carolyn McAdams
Hocus Pocus
Movie • 1993
Sarah Sanderson
The First Wives Club
Movie • 1996
Shelly Stewart
Sex and the City
Movie • 2008
Carrie Bradshaw
A Life Apart: Hasidism in America
Movie • 1998
Narrator
Striking Distance
Movie • 1993
Jo Christman
State and Main
Movie • 2000
Claire Wellesley
Extreme Measures
Movie • 1996
Jodie Trammel
Sex and the Matrix
Movie • 2000
Carrie Bradshaw
Life Without Dick
Movie • 2002
Colleen Gibson
Failure to Launch
Movie • 2006
Paula
Did You Hear About the Morgans?
Movie • 2009
Meryl Morgan
The Family Stone
Movie • 2005
Meredith Morton
Spinning Into Butter
Movie • 2009
Sarah Daniels
Smart People
Movie • 2008
Janet Hartigan
'Til There Was You
Movie • 1997
Francesca Lanfield
Honeymoon in Vegas
Movie • 1992
Betsy / Donna
Strangers with Candy
Movie • 2006
Peggy Callas
New Year's Eve
Movie • 2011
Kim Doyle
Sex and the City 2
Movie • 2010
Carrie Bradshaw
Girls Just Want to Have Fun
Movie • 1985
Janey Glenn
Miami Rhapsody
Movie • 1995
Gwyn
Dudley Do-Right
Movie • 1999
Nell Fenwick
Escape from Planet Earth
Movie • 2013
Kira Supernova (voice)
Somewhere, Tomorrow
Movie • 1983
Lori Anderson
I Don't Know How She Does It
Movie • 2011
Kate Reddy
And Just Like That... The Documentary
Movie • 2022
Self
Firstborn
Movie • 1984
Lisa
The Ryan White Story
Movie • 1989
Laura
The Sunshine Boys
Movie • 1996
Nancy Clark
Off the Record: The 9/11 Election
Movie • 2003
Self
The Substance of Fire
Movie • 1996
Sarah Geldhart
The Room Upstairs
Movie • 1987
Mandy Janovic
Going for the Gold: The Bill Johnson Story
Movie • 1985
Maggie
Waking Sleeping Beauty
Movie • 2009
Self (archive footage)
The Almost Royal Family
Movie • 1984
Suzanne Henderson
Hocus Pocus 3
Movie
Sarah Sanderson
All Roads Lead to Rome
Movie • 2016
Maggie
Hot Potato: The Story of The Wiggles
Movie • 2023
Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
In the Best Interest of the Children
Movie • 1992
Callie Cain
Broadway: The Next Generation
Movie
Self
Grit & Grace: The Fight for the American Dream
Movie • 2022
Narrator
Dadah Is Death
Movie • 1988
Rachel Goldman
My Body, My Child
Movie • 1982
Katy
ShowBusiness: The Road to Broadway
Movie • 2007
Self
Life Under Water
Movie • 1989
Amy-Beth
$ellebrity
Movie • 2013
Self
Honorable but Broken: EMS in Crisis
Movie
Narrator
Owen
Movie • 1995
Happy Clothes: A Film About Patricia Field
Movie • 2024
Self
Here and Now
Movie • 2018
Vivienne
Sesame Beginnings: Moving Together
Movie • 2007
Herself
One Night Only: Barbra Streisand and Quartet at the Village Vanguard
Movie • 2010
Audience
Hocus Pocus 25th Anniversary Halloween Bash
Movie • 2018
Self
What She Said: The Art of Pauline Kael
Movie • 2019
Pauline's Voice Over
R.E.M.: Rough Cut
Movie • 1995
Herself
The Times of Bill Cunningham
Movie • 2018
Narrator (voice)
Ed Wood: Let's Shoot This @#!%
Movie • 2004
Self
Ed Wood: Pie Plates Over Hollywood
Movie • 2004
Self (archive footage)
America | A Tribute to Heroes
Movie • 2001
Self
Bridget Everett: Gynecological Wonder
Movie • 2015
Self
In Search of the Sanderson Sisters: A Hocus Pocus Hulaween Takeover
Movie • 2020
Sarah Sanderson
Life After Tomorrow
Movie • 2006
Self
Mademoiselle C
Movie • 2013
Self
Hocus Pocus 2
Movie • 2022
Sarah Sanderson
One World: Together at Home
Movie • 2020
Self
Sex and the City: A Farewell
Movie
Carrie Bradshaw
VH1: Divas Live
Movie • 1998
Self - Host
The New Yorker at 100
Movie • 2025
Self
Sex and the City
TV • 1998
Carrie Bradshaw
The Ben Stiller Show
TV • 1992
Sesame Street
TV • 1969
Square Pegs
TV • 1982
Patty Greene
Inside the Actors Studio
TV • 1994
Self
The Ellen DeGeneres Show
TV • 2003
Self
The View
TV • 1997
Self
The Daily Show
TV • 1996
Self
Today
TV • 1952
Self
LIVE with Kelly and Mark
TV • 1988
This Week
TV • 1981
The Early Show
TV • 1999
Self
The Tonight Show with Jay Leno
TV • 1992
Hallmark Hall of Fame
TV • 1951
Mandy
Late Night with Conan O'Brien
TV • 1993
Self - Guest
A Year in the Life
TV • 1987
Kay Erickson
MTV Movie & TV Awards
TV • 1992
Self / Host
TV Land Moguls
TV • 2004
The Jonathan Ross Show
TV • 2011
Self
Equal Justice
TV • 1990
Jo Ann Harris
The Oscars
TV • 1953
Self
GMTV
TV • 1993
Self
Who Do You Think You Are?
TV • 2010
Self
Live from Studio Five
TV • 2009
Self
Work of Art: The Next Great Artist
TV • 2010
The Alec Baldwin Show
TV • 2018
Self
Space Ghost Coast to Coast
TV • 1994
Self
Hamish and Andy's Gap Year
TV • 2011
Herself
Late Night with Seth Meyers
TV • 2014
Self
Divorce
TV • 2016
Frances DuFresne
Project Runway
TV • 2004
Self - Guest Judge
Chelsea
TV • 2016
Self
ABC Afterschool Special
TV • 1972
Suzanne Henderson
2 Dope Queens
TV • 2018
A Year in the Life
TV • 1986
Kay Erickson
Twist of Fate
TV • 1989
Miriam
Leute heute
TV • 1997
Self
The Reichen Show
TV • 2005
Self - Guest
Watch What Happens Live with Andy Cohen
TV • 2009
Self - Guest
The Great American Read
TV • 2018
Self
Saturday Night Live
TV • 1975
Self - Host
Comedians in Cars Getting Coffee
TV • 2012
Self
Bambi
TV • 1948
Self
The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
TV • 2015
Self
Glee
TV • 2009
Isabelle Wright
Billy on the Street
TV • 2011
Self
The Larry Sanders Show
TV • 1992
Sarah Jessica Parker
Shalom Sesame
TV
Jerusalem Jones
Hotel
TV • 1982
Rachel Sutton
American Playhouse
TV • 1982
Amy-Beth
Nightcap
TV • 2016
Self
3-2-1 Contact
TV • 1980
Annie
Mikhail Baryshnikov's Stories from My Childhood
TV • 1998
Narrator (voice)
GQ Presents: Iconic Characters
TV • 2018
Self
And Just Like That…
TV • 2021
Carrie Bradshaw
Variety Studio: Actors on Actors
TV • 2014
Self
In Vogue: The 90s
TV • 2024
Self
LIVE with Kelly and Mark
TV • 1988
Self - Guest