
Sarah Jessica Parker
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.
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Known For
Acting History
2025
The New Yorker at 100 as Self
2024Happy Clothes: A Film About Patricia Field as Self
2024In Vogue: The 90s as Self
2023Hot Potato: The Story of The Wiggles as Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
2022Grit & Grace: The Fight for the American Dream as Narrator
2022Hocus Pocus 2 as Sarah Sanderson
2022And Just Like That... The Documentary as Self
2021And Just Like That… as Carrie Bradshaw
2020In Search of the Sanderson Sisters: A Hocus Pocus Hulaween Takeover as Sarah Sanderson
2020The 52nd Annual Emmy Awards as Self - Presenter
2020One World: Together at Home as Self
2019What She Said: The Art of Pauline Kael as Pauline's Voice Over
2018Here and Now as Vivienne
2018Hocus Pocus 25th Anniversary Halloween Bash as Self
2018The Alec Baldwin Show as Self
2018The Great American Read as Self
2018The Times of Bill Cunningham as Narrator (voice)
2018GQ Presents: Iconic Characters as Self
20182 Dope Queens
2017Broadway: The Next Generation as Self
2016Nightcap as Self
2016Divorce as Frances DuFresne
2016Chelsea as Self
2016All Roads Lead to Rome as Maggie
2015The Late Show with Stephen Colbert as Self
2015Bridget Everett: Gynecological Wonder as Self
2014Variety Studio: Actors on Actors as Self
2014Late Night with Seth Meyers as Self
2013Mademoiselle C as Self
2013Escape from Planet Earth as Kira Supernova (voice)
2013$ellebrity as Self
2012Comedians in Cars Getting Coffee as Self
2011Billy on the Street as Self
2011New Year's Eve as Kim Doyle
2011I Don't Know How She Does It as Kate Reddy
2011The Jonathan Ross Show as Self
2011Hamish and Andy's Gap Year as Herself
2010Work of Art: The Next Great Artist
2010Sex and the City 2 as Carrie Bradshaw
2010One Night Only: Barbra Streisand and Quartet at the Village Vanguard as Audience
2010Who Do You Think You Are? as Self
2009Did You Hear About the Morgans? as Meryl Morgan
2009Live from Studio Five as Self
2009Waking Sleeping Beauty as Self (archive footage)
2009Watch What Happens Live with Andy Cohen as Self - Guest
2009Glee as Isabelle Wright
2008Sex and the City as Carrie Bradshaw
2008Smart People as Janet Hartigan
2007ShowBusiness: The Road to Broadway as Self
2007Sesame Beginnings: Moving Together as Herself
2007Spinning Into Butter as Sarah Daniels
2006Life After Tomorrow as Self
2006Strangers with Candy as Peggy Callas
2006Failure to Launch as Paula
2005The Family Stone as Meredith Morton
2005The Reichen Show as Self - Guest
2004Project Runway as Self - Guest Judge
2004Ed Wood: Pie Plates Over Hollywood as Self (archive footage)
2004Ed Wood: Let's Shoot This @#!% as Self
2004TV Land Moguls
2003Off the Record: The 9/11 Election as Self
2003The Ellen DeGeneres Show as Self
2002Life Without Dick as Colleen Gibson
2001America | A Tribute to Heroes as Self
2000State and Main as Claire Wellesley
2000Sex and the Matrix as Carrie Bradshaw
1999The Early Show as Self
1999Dudley Do-Right as Nell Fenwick
1998A Life Apart: Hasidism in America as Narrator
1998Sex and the City as Carrie Bradshaw
1998VH1: Divas Live as Self - Host
1998Mikhail Baryshnikov's Stories from My Childhood as Narrator (voice)
1997The View as Self
1997Leute heute as Self
1997'Til There Was You as Francesca Lanfield
1996Mars Attacks! as Nathalie Lake
1996Extreme Measures as Jodie Trammel
1996The First Wives Club as Shelly Stewart
1996The Substance of Fire as Sarah Geldhart
1996The Sunshine Boys as Nancy Clark
1996The Daily Show as Self
1996If Lucy Fell as Lucy Ackerman
1995R.E.M.: Rough Cut as Herself
1995Miami Rhapsody as Gwyn
1995Owen
1994Ed Wood as Dolores Fuller
1994Inside the Actors Studio as Self
1994Space Ghost Coast to Coast as Self
1993Striking Distance as Jo Christman
1993Late Night with Conan O'Brien as Self - Guest
1993Hocus Pocus as Sarah Sanderson
1993GMTV as Self
1992The Ben Stiller Show
1992Honeymoon in Vegas as Betsy / Donna
1992The Larry Sanders Show as Self
1992MTV Movie & TV Awards as Self / Host
1992The Tonight Show with Jay Leno
1992In the Best Interest of the Children as Callie Cain
1991L.A. Story as SanDeE
1990Equal Justice as Jo Ann Harris
1989Life Under Water as Amy-Beth
1989The Ryan White Story as Laura
1989Twist of Fate as Miriam
1988Dadah Is Death as Rachel Goldman
1988LIVE with Kelly and Mark
1988LIVE with Kelly and Mark as Self - Guest
1987A Year in the Life as Kay Erickson
1987The Room Upstairs as Mandy Janovic
1986A Year in the Life as Kay Erickson
1986Flight of the Navigator as Carolyn McAdams
1985Going for the Gold: The Bill Johnson Story as Maggie
1985Girls Just Want to Have Fun as Janey Glenn
1984Firstborn as Lisa
1984The Almost Royal Family as Suzanne Henderson
1984Footloose as Rusty
1983Somewhere, Tomorrow as Lori Anderson
1982Square Pegs as Patty Greene
1982Hotel as Rachel Sutton
1982My Body, My Child as Katy
1982American Playhouse as Amy-Beth
1981This Week
19803-2-1 Contact as Annie
1975Saturday Night Live as Self - Host
1972ABC Afterschool Special as Suzanne Henderson
1969Sesame Street
1956Tony Awards as Self - Presenter
1953The Oscars as Self
1952Today as Self
1951Hallmark Hall of Fame as Mandy
1948Bambi as Self
—Honorable but Broken: EMS in Crisis as Narrator
—Hocus Pocus 3 as Sarah Sanderson
—Sex and the City: A Farewell as Carrie Bradshaw
—Shalom Sesame as Jerusalem Jones









