Mary Louise

 Mary-Louise Parker (born August 2 1964) is an American actress. After her Broadway debut in Prelude to a Kiss by Craig Lucas in 1990, in which she was nominated to win a Tony Award, Parker rose to fame with parts in films like Grand Canyon (1991), Fried Green Tomatoes (94), Bullets over Broadway (94), A Place for Annie (94), Bullets over Broadway (94), Bullets over Broadway (94), Bullets over Broadway (94), Bullets over Broadway (94), Bullets over Broadway ( 1994), A Place for Annie (94), Boys on the Side (1996), The Portrait of a Lady (1996) and The Portrait of a Lady (1996) and The Maker (1997). Between performances on stage and in independent films later on, Parker received the 2001 Tony Award for Best Actress in a Play for her performance in Catherine Llewellyn in David Auburn's Proof in addition to other awards. Between 2001 and 2006, she appeared in the role of Amy Gardner in the NBC TV series The West Wing, for which she was nominated for the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actress in the Drama Series in 2002. For her role as Harper Pitt in HBO's acclaimed mini-series Angels in America, she received both the Golden Globe Award and a Primetime Emmy Award.