Molly Parker is known as a Canadian actress. She is most famous for her roles on the HBO series Deadwood and the Netflix original series House of Cards.
Molly Parker was born on June 30, 1972 in Maple Ridge, Canada. Molly was raised alongside her more youthful sibling Henry Parker, in a homestead by her folks who operated a fish retail location. She went to artful dance classes from age three up until she was seventeen years old.
Parker had a smooth adolescence, she grew up among guardians and family who bolstered her inside and out. In the wake of moving on from high school, she enrolled at Vancouver's Gastown Actors' Studio and furthermore took voice and singing exercises.
Her enthusiasm for acting started at 14 years old when she was often associated with her high school plays and drama club exercises. Molly Parker's decision of pursuing an acting career was additionally affected by her uncle who's an actor and acquainted her with his agent. She started going to tryouts and inside a couple of years, she was getting minor roles in motion pictures and TV series.
Molly Parker got her enormous break in the 1996 feature film, Kissed which won her the Genie Award. Parker featured in two big films in the year 2000, Waking the Dead and Suspicious River. With her abilities and tastefulness that emanates on screen, she kept on getting various motion pictures projects every year.
For her role in Last Wedding (2001) and in the British/Canadian co-production War Bride (2001), Parker earned two nominations for Best Supporting Actress at the Genies, of which she packed away one. She caused a ripple effect with The Center of the World (2001), in which she depicted a San Francisco lap dancer who turned into a paid escort to a Silicon Valley geek. Her extraordinary performance got her a nomination for an Independent Spirit Award.
In September 2019, at the 2019 Emmy Awards show, the film, Deadwood: The Movie was nominated for Outstanding Television Movie. Molly had a leading role in the TV movie.
Molly was once married to Matt Bissonnette who is a director and writer. They got married in 2002 and their child William Strummer Bissonnette was born in Los Angeles, California on October 13, 2006. Parker uncovered that she was pregnant in the third season of Deadwood.
Ten years into the marriage, they called it quits referring to beyond reconciliation disagreements. Parker and her former better half agreed on joint custody of their child in the courts and neither of them pays spousal help.
Birth Date: | 30 Jun, 1972 |
Age: | 48 yrs |
Occupations: | Actor Film actor Producer |
Citizenship: | Canada |
Birth Place: | Maple Ridge |
Gender: | Female |
Description: | Canadian actress |
Net Worth 2021: | 2 million |