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Parker in 2019, photo by DFree /Bigstock.com
Place of Birth: Maple Ridge, British Columbia, Canada
Date of Birth: June 30, 1972
Ethnicity: English, other
Molly Parker is a Canadian actress, writer, and director. Particularly known for her roles in indie films, she has appeared in the films Anything for Love , Hard Core Logo , Kissed (1996), Bliss (1997), Under Heaven , Wonderland , The Five Senses , Sunshine , The Intruder (1999), Waking the Dead , Suspicious River , The War Bride , The Center of the World , Rare Birds , Last Wedding , Men with Brooms , Looking for Leonard , Marion Bridge , Max , Pure (2002), The Confessor , Nine Lives (2005), Who Loves the Sun , Hollywoodland , The Wicker Man (2006), The Road (2009), Trigger (2010), Oliver Sherman , That’s What I Am , The Playroom , 2149: The Aftermath , The 9th Life of Louis Drax , Weirdos , American Pastoral , Small Crimes , 1922 (2017), Madeline’s Madeline , Words on Bathroom Walls , Pieces of a Woman , Jockey (2021), Peter Pan & Wendy , and You Gotta Believe ; on the shows Twitch City , Deadwood , Swingtown , Shattered , The Firm , House of Cards , Heritage Minutes , Goliath , Lost in Space , Essex County , and Doc ; in the mini-series Titanic (1996) and Intensity , and in the made-for-tv movies Deceived by Trust , Miracle at Christmas: Ebbie’s Story , Iron Jawed Angels , Hemingway & Gellhorn , Pete’s Christmas , and Deadwood: The Movie .
She was raised by “hippie” parents on a farm in Pitt Meadows. Her parents operated a seafood store. She has one child with her former husband, film director and writer Matt Bissonnette. Matt is the brother of actor Joel Bissonnette.