Saturday, August 7, 2021

Rule 5 Saturday - Down in the Weeds with Mary-Louise Parker

For no particular reason this week's Rule 5 winner is . . .

Mary-Louise Parker (born August 2, 1964) is an American actress and writer. After making her Broadway debut as Rita in Craig Lucas's Prelude to a Kiss in 1990 (for which she received a Tony Award nomination), Parker came to prominence for film roles in Grand Canyon (1991), Fried Green Tomatoes (1991), The Client (1994), Bullets over Broadway (1994), A Place for Annie (1994), Boys on the Side (1995), The Portrait of a Lady (1996), and The Maker (1997). . . 
Parker went on to enjoy large success as Nancy Botwin, the lead character in the television series Weeds, which ran from 2005 to 2012 and for which she received three nominations for the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Comedy Series between 2007 and 2009 and received the Golden Globe Award for Best Actress – Television Series Musical or Comedy in 2006.

Parker was born in Columbia, South Carolina, the youngest of four children, to Caroline Louise (née Morell) and John Morgan Parker, a judge who served in the U.S. Army. Her ancestry includes Swedish (from her maternal grandfather), English, Scottish, Irish, German, and Dutch. Because of her father's career, Parker spent parts of her childhood in South Carolina, Tennessee and Texas, as well as in Thailand, Germany, and France. She described her childhood as "profoundly unhappy", noting that, "My parents did everything they could; I had books, clothes, a home and a warm bed, but I was never happy."
Some minor NSFW, mostly from Weeds.

Linked at Pirate's Cove in the weekly Sorta Blogless Sunday Pinup and links.   The Wombat has Rule 5 Sunday: Crossing The Streams and FMJRA 2.0: Will You Stay Down On Your Knees? up on time and under budget. Linked in Proof Positive at the weekly Best of the Web* and at The Right Way in the weekly Rule 5 Saturday LinkOrama.















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