"And it keeps flying into the same fucking spot in the window," the actress says on a summer afternoon at her apartment in Brooklyn, planting her feet in the plush rug and gazing out the wall of windows, as though expecting the bird to be out there now, circling her penthouse aerie. She'll be listening to records or something and then—Kind of like Mary-Louise Parker herself.
A few minutes earlier, she'd answered her door clutching a box she was decoupaging with photos for her sister's birthday. " Parker called from the deck.) The dog's named Mrs.
And it's not just that," Danes told Harper's Bazaar U.
Parker won the Clarence Derwent Award for her performance and was nominated for a Tony Award (although she did not play the role when the film was made).
Parker starred with Kevin Kline in Grand Canyon (1991); with Kathy Bates, Mary Stuart Masterson, and Jessica Tandy in Fried Green Tomatoes (1991); with Susan Sarandon and Tommy Lee Jones in The Client (1994); with John Cusack in Bullets over Broadway (1994); and with Drew Barrymore and Whoopi Goldberg in Boys on the Side (1995), as a woman with AIDS.
I don’t know what happened to you that morning, or that year, or when you were six.
I didn’t know your tragedy or hardship and it was grossly unfair of me to compare my life to yours. What I don’t have to struggle for that makes my life easier than most. I realize now that whatever I was walking through was part of my life, one piece of a bigger story that is mostly beautiful." For her part,actress Danes addressed the situation during a recent interview with Howard Stern.
Parker got her start in acting with a role on the soap opera Ryan's Hope. After a few minor roles, she made her Broadway debut in a production of Craig Lucas' Prelude to a Kiss, playing the lead role of Rita, in 1990.
She moved with the production when it transferred from its origin Off-Broadway.Baby daddy: Mary-Louise Parker is writing a memoir, Dear Mr You, which will shed light on her break-up with Billy Crudup, seen at a Hollywood event in 2003, before he dumped her for Claire Danes when she was pregnant The Weeds star will tell her story through a series of letters to the 'significant men in her life' including Billy, actor Jeffrey Dean Morgan and singer Charlie Mars, publisher Scribner announced on Monday.Love interest: Another candidate for the book is Jeffrey Dean Morgan, 45, who the 50-year-old met on the set of Weeds in 2006.The idea grew out of a piece Parker wrote for a few years ago, her advice about how to be a better man.actress herself."That was a scary thing…That was really hard," she explained during an Sirius XM interview with Howard Stern when asked how she handled the criticism from the public over the 2003 revelation."But it's okay, I went through it."She continued, "I was just in love with him and needed to explore that and I was 24…I didn't quite know what those consequences would be."Danes, who is now married to Hugh Dancy, admitted that it's all water under the bridge."We're friendly, we're friends."Danes and Dancy welcomed a son named Cyrus back in December 2012 and the actress recently got candid about experiencing motherhood for the very first time."Being a mum is incredibly challenging, but we still feel a pressure to talk about it in very romantic terms. The actress, though admittedly careless at the time, told Stern that she was at peace with the situation.