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.
77 movies · 57 shows
The New Yorker at 100
2025·6.9
Happy Clothes: A Film About Patricia Field
2024·0.0
Hot Potato: The Story of The Wiggles
2023·8.1
Grit & Grace: The Fight for the American Dream
2022·1.0
Hocus Pocus 2
2022·7.1
And Just Like That... The Documentary
2022·6.7
In Search of the Sanderson Sisters: A Hocus Pocus Hulaween Takeover
2020·7.1
One World: Together at Home
2020·7.1
What She Said: The Art of Pauline Kael
2019·6.7
Here and Now
2018·5.3
Hocus Pocus 25th Anniversary Halloween Bash
2018·7.0
The Times of Bill Cunningham
2018·0.0
All Roads Lead to Rome
2016·5.0
Bridget Everett: Gynecological Wonder
2015·2.5
Mademoiselle C
2013·5.6
Escape from Planet Earth
2013·5.8
$ellebrity
2013·5.8
New Year's Eve
2011·5.9
"Footloose": Remembering Willard
2011·0.0
I Don't Know How She Does It
2011·5.2
From Bomont to the Big Apple: An Interivew with Sarah Jessica Parker
2011·0.0
Sex and the City 2
2010·6.0
One Night Only: Barbra Streisand and Quartet at the Village Vanguard
2010·7.1
Did You Hear About the Morgans?
2009·5.4
Waking Sleeping Beauty
2009·7.2
Spinning Into Butter
2009·5.9
Sex and the City: A Conversation with Sarah Jessica Parker and Michael Patrick King
2008·0.0
Sex and the City: The Party That Never Was
2008·0.0
Sex and the City: The Wedding Dress Photo Shoot
2008·0.0
The Fabulous Fashion of 'Sex and the City'
2008·0.0
Live from the Red Carpet: Sex and the City
2008·0.0
Sex and the City
2008·6.5
Smart People
2008·5.8
ShowBusiness: The Road to Broadway
2007·7.2
Sesame Beginnings: Moving Together
2007·0.0
Life After Tomorrow
2006·6.5
Strangers with Candy
2006·5.7
Failure to Launch
2006·5.8
The Family Stone
2005·6.3
Ed Wood: Let's Shoot This @#!%
2004·0.0
Ed Wood: Pie Plates Over Hollywood
2004·7.9
Off the Record: The 9/11 Election
2003·0.0
Life Without Dick
2002·3.7
America | A Tribute to Heroes
2001·6.5
State and Main
2000·6.3
Sex and the Matrix
2000·6.7
Dudley Do-Right
1999·4.1
A Life Apart: Hasidism in America
1998·5.9
VH1: Divas Live
1998·7.9
'Til There Was You
1997·4.0
Mars Attacks!
1996·6.4
Extreme Measures
1996·6.0
The First Wives Club
1996·6.7
The Substance of Fire
1996·6.4
The Sunshine Boys
1996·5.0
If Lucy Fell
1996·5.4
R.E.M.: Rough Cut
1995·6.5
Miami Rhapsody
1995·5.3
Owen
1995·9.0
Ed Wood
1994·7.5
Striking Distance
1993·5.9
Hocus Pocus
1993·7.0
Honeymoon in Vegas
1992·5.7
In the Best Interest of the Children
1992·5.3
L.A. Story
1991·6.5
Life Under Water
1989·5.6
The Ryan White Story
1989·6.5
Dadah Is Death
1988·5.0
The Room Upstairs
1987·4.8
Flight of the Navigator
1986·7.0
Going for the Gold: The Bill Johnson Story
1985·6.0
Girls Just Want to Have Fun
1985·6.1
Firstborn
1984·6.2
The Almost Royal Family
1984·0.0
Footloose
1984·6.7
Somewhere, Tomorrow
1983·5.1
My Body, My Child
1982·9.0