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Andrea Parker Profile |
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Birth Date: March 8, 1976
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Birth Place: Monterey County, California, USA
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Birth Name: Andrea Nicole Parker
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Height: 5'10"
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Biography |
Andrea Parker is an American actress and former
ballet dancer.
Parker began ballet training at age 6 and at age 15 she
joined a professional dance company. She quit her career in
ballet after three years of touring and trained to become an
actor while working as a bartender. Her first documented
film role was at age 19 in the movie Rented Lips in which
she played a dancer/nurse.
Andrea Parker got her break in television playing a nurse on
the award-winning Seinfeld episode "The Contest" in 1992.
After that first speaking role, she had several other
guest-starring roles in television series and movies, most
notably a recurring role in ER as Linda Farrell, the love
interest of Dr. Doug Ross, the character played by George
Clooney and as Lieutenant Caitlin Pike in JAG. She was a
body double for Julia Roberts in the movie Pretty Woman;
hers are the legs seen in the opening scene of the main
character zipping up her boots. She also did several pilots
before she gained a cult-following for her role as Miss
Parker on the NBC television series The Pretender.
Parker says she felt compelled to play the role of the
complex, cynical, powerful and intimidating yet somewhat
tortured Ice Queen because her name was "all over the
script." Miss Parker is a character many viewers love and
others love to hate. Parker also played the minor role of
Catherine Parker, Miss Parker's mother in The Pretender, a
role that is in stark contrast to the character Miss Parker.
After The Pretender was cancelled by NBC in 2000, Parker did
another guest spot on JAG before signing on to reprise her
role as Miss Parker in the telemovies for The Pretender,
which aired on Turner Network Television in 2001. She then
returned to series television in 2002 and currently stars in
the ABC network comedy Less Than Perfect, playing Lydia
Weston. She has made several guest appearances on television
talk shows and celebrity events such as the various
celebrity poker tournaments.
Ms. Parker is noted for her support of various charities
such as the National Hospice Palliative Care Organization,
Glenn Siegel's My Good Friend charity organization, the
Michael J. Fox Foundation for Parkinson's Research and
Project Angel Food. Parker is also trained as a stunt-driver
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Other
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She left home at age 15 to join the San Francisco Ballet
School. Her hobbies include horseback riding, stunt driving,
and target shooting.
While promoting "The Pretender" (1996) in Monte Carlos' TV
festival with her co-star Michael T. Weiss in Feb, 2001, she
said in two different interviews that she was living with a
guy named Jim for 11 years. She later married him and he
died of cancer almost two years after that interview.
She "played" the legs of Julia Roberts's character in one of
the first scenes of the movie Pretty Woman (1990). When we
see the character wake up in her bed, her head is hidden by
a pillow: it is Andrea Parker and not Julia Roberts. |
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