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  • Mary-Louise Parker Heading Back to Broadway This Fall in “Heisenberg”

    Mary-Louise Parker, known for her role on Weeds and in films including Fried Green Tomatoes, is headed back to Broadway this fall in Heisenberg, what Variety describes as a Broadway transfer of an off-Broadway play.

    Playing the role of a woman whose unexpected relationship with a considerably older man (she is 33 to his 75) leads to an uncertain future, Mary-Louise Parker–joined by Denis Arndt–is reprising her role she first played in the play’s world premiere last year.

    Parker isn’t new to Broadway. She won a Tony Award in 2001 for her role in Proof. She also appeared on Broadway in Hedda Gabler, The Snow Geese, and Reckless.

    Mary-Louise Parker–at 51–has run the gamut of captivating roles in film, on TV, and on the stage. She most recently played the role of Raymond “Red” Reddington’s (played by James Spader) ex-wife Naomi Hyland on the hit NBC show The Blacklist for four episodes.

    If you’re a Mary-Louise Parker fan, you’re likely not surprised she’s headed back to Broadway. Her diverse talent traverses many realms in the acting world–each of which she has perfected.

    If you’re not familiar with the actress, check out Fried Green Tomatoes for an early look at the actress. Follow up with The Blacklist for black and white views of her abilities. You won’t be disappointed.

    There’s been no word yet on the exact opening date for Mary-Louise Parker in Heisenberg.

  • Mary-Louise Parker Talks Turbulent Point in Life, Billy Crudup-Claire Danes Memories

    Mary-Louise Parker has written a new book, and earlier this week she chatted about it with Savannah Guthrie on The Today Show. At one point the talk turned to a very turbulent point in the Weeds actress’s life–when Billy Crudup left her for Claire Danes. Mary-Louise Parker was seven months pregnant at the time.

    It was back in 2003, and Billy Crudup was starring opposite Claire Danes in Stage Beauty. Mary-Louise Parker recalls that moment in time in the part of her book called “Dear Mr. Cabdriver.”

    “S–t, goddamn. I mean, why, I mean why the hell-NO! Where are you going now?” Parker yelled at her cabdriver (as excerpted in her memoir). Her shouting got so bad, in fact, that the driver told Parker to get out of the car. “I don’t want you anymore,” he said to her. She replied: “No one does . . . Look at me . . . My life is worse than yours in this moment . . . I am alone. Look, see? I am pregnant and alone. It hurts to even breathe.”

    “This was a complete stranger that met me at a very low moment,” Mary-Louise Parker told Savannah Guthrie. “And had I been in touch with a higher self and been forgiving of him, it would’ve been heroic. But I was so attached to my own unhappiness that I was unable to sort of rise above feeling persecuted, and it just created this dynamic with this perfect stranger . . . and he held up a mirror at my face, he sort of haunted me because I didn’t consider him or his life.”

    Parker acknowledges that something very wonderful came out of that turbulent period–her now 11-year-old son William.

    “It was something that I had waited for all my life,” Parker says of motherhood, as detailed in her memoir. “I wanted a baby my whole life. I was a little girl who wanted that baby.”

    Mary-Louise Parker’s new book, Dear Mr. You, is a series of letters to the men from various periods in her life–some real and some made-up–who have shaped the person she is today. It hit book stores on November 10th.

  • Mary-Louise Parker: Clare Danes On Stealing Then Pregnant Parker’s Boyfriend Billy Crudup

    It came as a shock when Mary-Louise Parker, who was seven months pregnant at the time in 2003, learned that the father of her child, Billy Crudup, was leaving her for Clare Danes, whom he met on the set of their film, Stage Beauty.

    In an interview with Howard Stern, Danes, 36, opened up about her controversial relationship with Crudup and whether she regrets it.

    The Homeland actress said the public backlash over the romance was difficult.

    “That was a scary thing,” said Danes. “That was really hard. I didn’t know how to not do that. 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 and the 47-year-old Almost Famous actor remained in a relationship for four years until she moved on with her future husband, Hugh Dancy.

    Danes said she is good with what transpired with Crudup.

    “But it’s okay. I went through it,” said Danes, adding that they remain friends today.

    “We’re friendly, we’re friends.”

    As for the Weeds actress, who has said little about the affair over the years, will likely address her feelings about that time in her life in her upcoming memoir, Dear Mr. You.

    Set to hit shelves on Nov. 10, the book will include a series of letters Mary-Louise Parker wrote to the men in her life — undoubtedly, among them, Crudup, the father of her 11-year-old son William.

  • Claire Danes Recalls Relationship With Billy Crudup, His Split from Mary-Louise Parker

    Claire Danes Recalls Relationship With Billy Crudup, His Split from Mary-Louise Parker

    Claire Danes was a guest on Howard Stern’s radio show on Monday, and the topic of an old love interest came up. Stern asked the Homeland star about her relationship several years back with Billy Crudup.

    Crudup and actress Mary-Louise Parker had been together for about eight years and she was pregnant–about seven months along–back in 2003, with their first child. Claire Danes and Billy Crudup met on the set of the film Stage Beauty, and Crudup left Parker for her shortly thereafter.

    “I was just in love with him,” Claire Danes recalled. “And needed to explore that and I was 24…I didn’t quite know what those consequences would be.”

    Danes acknowledged how difficult the public backlash over her part in the split was.

    “That was a scary thing,” she said. “That was really hard. I didn’t know how to not do that.”

    Claire Danes’ role in the break-up of Billy Crudup and Mary-Louise Parker will likely be covered in Parker’s upcoming book, Dear Mr. You, which is due out on November 1st.

    Finally at peace with the entire ordeal, Claire Danes says she and Crudup are friends. The romance only lasted for about three years.

    “We’re friendly–we’re friends,” she says of her ex.

    Claire Danes married former Hannibal star Hugh Dancy in 2009. The couple has a three-year-old son named Cyrus.

    Did you know Claire Danes was once involved in this sordid breakup? How awful for Mary-Louise Parker to have been ditched for another woman while she was seven months pregnant.

  • Mary-Louise Parker Replaced By Uma Thurman In Miniseries ‘The Slap’

    Mary-Louise Parker Replaced By Uma Thurman In Miniseries ‘The Slap’

    Mary-Louise Parker is being replaced by Uma Thurman in the remake of the Australian miniseries The Slap.

    Parker, who is best known for playing the role of Nancy Botwin on Showtime’s original television series Weeds, was originally slated to play the part of Anouk, 41-year-old soap opera writer who was originally played by Essie Davis in the 2011 series, but she had to pull out after encountering a bad case of pneumonia.

    According to TVLine, The Slap is based on the best-selling novel by Australian author Christos Tsiolkas and is “an eight-hour take on the 2011 Australian series, The Slap is about how one man’s punishment of another couple’s child explodes into a complex family drama.

    The new NBC series will also star Peter Sarsgaard (The Killing), Thandie Newton (2012), Zachary Quinto (Heroes, Star Trek), Brian Cox (Deadwood), and Melissa George (The Good Wife).

    Uma Thurman, an Academy Award nominated actress, is probably best known for her roles in the Kill Bill series. However, she has appeared on the small screen before. In 2012, she appeared in several episodes of NBC’s series, that has since been cancelled, titled Smash.

  • Mary-Louise Parker Writes Memoir to the Men in Her Life

    From Fried Green Tomatoes to Weeds, Mary-Louise Parker has had her share of fame. Now the 50-year-old actress is writing a memoir entitled Dear Mr. You, a book is based on letters written to significant others who have passed through her life.

    One possible book subject includes actor Billy Crudup (Big Fish), with whom Parker had a relationship from 1997 to 2003. The two lived together for seven years after which they costarred in the 1996 stage revival of Bus Stop. Although reps for the actor deny the rumor, Crudup is said to have left Parker for another woman (Claire Danes) when she was seven months pregnant with their son, William Atticus.

    Another subject possibility is Jeffrey Dean Morgan. Parker met Morgan on the set of Weeds and the couple began dating in December 2006 but broke up soon after.

    “We’re not together anymore,” Morgan told People magazine. “Everything’s fine, but it just didn’t work out. Wrong time in both our lives.”

    However, Parker and Morgan rekindled their love and became engaged in February 2008, only to break up again in April.

    Parker began dating singer Charlie Mars in 2009 after attending one of his shows and even appeared in his video, “Listen to the Darkside.”

    “It was at the Soho House in New York,” she said. “I just met him briefly that night—a bunch of people went to dinner after, and I just talked to him briefly, then he called maybe a month-and-a-half later and asked if I wanted to be in his video.”

    Dear Mr. You will be published by Simon & Schuster imprint Scribner.

    “I am so honored and thrilled to be working with Scribner and in the company of such wonderful writers,” Parker said.

    “From Frank McCourt to Jeannette Walls to Anjelica Huston, Scribner loves a great memoirist, and Mary-Louise Parker is one,” said senior vice president and publisher Nan Graham. “Her writing is magnificent; the conceit—a memoir in letters to men—is wholly original and brilliantly executed.”

    Along with her well-loved role of Nancy Botwin, the marijuana-growing soccer mom on Weeds, Parker has appeared in roles on television shows such as The West Wing and Angels in America, for which she won a Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actress as well as a Golden Globe for Best Supporting Actress.

    Parker also won a Tony Award in 2000 for her portrayal of Catherine in the Broadway production of Proof.

    Dear Mr. You will be released in fall 2015.

  • Mary-Louise Parker Writing Memoir, ‘Dear Mr. You,’ By Penning Letters to the Men in Her Life

    Mary-Louise Parker Writing Memoir, ‘Dear Mr. You,’ By Penning Letters to the Men in Her Life

    Mary-Louise Parker is writing a book about the “significant men in her life,” which may or may not include juicy details about exes Billy Crudup and Jeffrey Dean Morgan.

    The book, Dear Mr. You, will detail the Emmy-, Tony-, and Golden Globe-winning actress’ life through a series of letters penned to the most important men in her life.

    The book will be released by Simon and Schuster imprint Scribner in fall 2015.

    “I am so honored and thrilled to be working with Scribner and in the company of such wonderful writers,” said Parker, 50, in a Scribner press release.

    “From Frank McCourt to Jeannette Walls to Anjelica Huston, Scribner loves a great memoirist, and Mary-Louise Parker is one,” said senior vice president and publisher Nan Graham. “Her writing is magnificent; the concept—a memoir in letters to men—is wholly original and brilliantly executed.”

    Parker was in a seven-year relationship with actor Billy Crudup and gave birth to their son, William Atticus, in 2004, three months after the couple split up. She also once dated her Weeds co-star, actor Jeffrey Dean Morgan and singer Charlie Mars.

    Parker is known for her film roles in Grand Canyon and Fried Green Tomatoes, and for her Broadway production of Proof, which earned her a Tony Award. She also won an Emmy Award and a Golden Globe for her 2004 performance in the HBO miniseries Angels in America. She won a second Golden Globe in 2006 for her performance on Weeds.

  • Mary-Louise Parker Stars in ‘Jamesy Boy’

    Mary-Louise Parker Stars in ‘Jamesy Boy’

    Mary-Louise Parker stars in a new indie film, along with actor James Woods. Jamesy Boy is a crime drama, in which a troubled teen whose admission to a public school is rejected because of his sordid criminal past. Parker plays the mother of that troubled teen, who is portrayed by newcomer Spencer Lofranco. She works to defend her son’s right to an education.

    The film tells the real life story of a young man named James Burns, who was ultimately tossed away by the system. He eventually becomes part of a street gang before winding up in a maximum security facility, where he finally decides to put effort into turning his life around.

    In addition to Mary-Louise Parker, James Woods and Spencer Lofranco, the film stars Ving Rhames and Taissa Farmiga.

    Parker is best known for her role in the 1991 film Fried Green Tomatoes, in which she starred with Kathy Bates and Mary Stuart Masterson.

    Support for Jamesy Boy is ramping up in the weeks before its release.

    Jamesy Boy opens in theaters nationwide on January 17th. Will you be among those checking out Mary-Louise Parker in her latest film role?

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