Molly Parker is a Canadian-born international actress who has featured in several films and television series in Canada and the United States. She plays a significant role as House Majority Whip, Jacqueline Sharp in the thriller series, House of Cards.
Parker wins Genie Award as Best Actress in a Leading Role; it was for her role in 1997 ‘s Kissed In addition, she was nominated twice for the same award and won again in 2002 for her performance in Last Wedding (2001).
Other nominations include the Independent Spirit Award for Best Female Film in 2001 for her role as Florence in The Center of the World; and an Emmy Award nomination for the HBO series, Deadwood
Molly Parker Biography and Childhood
Molly Parker was born June 30, 1972 in Maple.Ridge, Canada, and grew up with her younger brother Henry Parker on a farm owned by her parents who operated a seafood store. She took ballet lessons from age 3 to 17. years.
Parker had a sweet childhood, she grew up among parents and family who supported her in every way. After graduating from high school, she enrolled in a three-year course at Gastown Actors’s Studio in Vancouver and also took additional singing and voice lessons.
Her interest in acting piqued at the age of 14, and she was involved in his plays and drama club activities. Molly Parker’s career choice was also influenced by her uncle who is an actor and introduced her to his agent. She started attending auditions and a few years later got small roles in movies and TV series. This is how she landed her roles in American television shows broadcast in Vancouver.
Achievements
A few years on screen with minor roles under her belt, Molly Parker got her big break in the 1996 low-budget indie feature, Kissed, which won her the Genie Award.
Subsequently, she appeared in a series of shorts from 1992 to 1998, including Hate Mail, The Chain, and From the Morning I Waited For Yesterday. Others include Just One of the Girls (1993), Hard Core Logo (1996), Bliss (1997), and Beneath the Sky (1998). As a versatile actress, Parker showcased her comedic prowess as one of the roles on the CBC-TV sitcom Twitch City (1998-2000).
Parker featured in two films for 2000, Waking the Dead and Suspicious River. With her skill and elegance that radiates on screen, she continues to direct several film projects each year. She starred in four films in 2001, followed by five films in 2002.
For her role in Last Wedding (2001) and the British-Canadian co-production War Bride (2001), Parker earned two nominations for Best Supporting Actress from the Genies – one of which she took home.
She made waves with The Center of the World (2001), in which she portrayed a San Francisco dancer turned paid escort to a Silicon Valley nerd. His outstanding performance earned him a nomination for an Independent Spirit Award.
In one of her interviews, she described her work on Trigger (2010) as a gift and a profound experience. The same year, she was featured on Oliver Sherman. Molly Parker has had major roles in over 80 films and her latest projects include TV series and films like Heritage Minutes (2105), the Amazon Video series Goliath (2016), Mugwort (2017), and Lost in the Dark. space (2018).
In 2017, she won the Canadian Screen Awards.
Celebrity Facts
1. Molly Parker played the wife of Joël Bissonnette’s character in Suspicious River (2000). He later became her brother-in-law.
2 She married and divorced Matt Bissonnette, who is a director, screenwriter and producer. They married in 2002 and their son William Strummer Bissonnette was born in Los Angeles, California on October 13, 2006. Ten years after the marriage began, they called it quits citing irreconcilable differences.
3. Parker and her husband filed for joint custody of their son in court and neither of them is paying child support.
4. Parker revealed she was pregnant in the third season of Deadwood (2004-2006), which was filmed in California over the summer. According to her, the smell of the filming location was awful and left her with strong memories.
5. Her net worth is estimated at $2 million and she owns a Spanish-style bungalow in Los Angeles in the Echo Park area, which she listed for sale in 2017 for less than $900,000.