Molly Parker
Molly Parker
Molly Parker is a Canadian actress. She is best known for her roles in independent films, and for her roles in television as House Majority Whip Jacqueline Sharp on the Netflix Original Series House of Cards, for which she earned an emmy nomination and as Alma Garret on the HBO series Deadwood. She won a Genie Award in 1997 as Best Actress in a Leading Role for Kissed, was nominated for an Independent Spirit Award as best female lead in...
NationalityCanadian
ProfessionTV Actress
Date of Birth14 June 1972
CityMaple Ridge, Canada
CountryCanada
Molly Parker quotes about
I really understand where Alice is coming from - I've been in exactly the same place coming from a small town and knowing that I need to do other things, that I have to leave.
I think a lot of actors are overly concerned about being well liked in the parts they play.
Sex, sexual dynamics and how we define our sexuality, is one of the major deals in everyone's life.
I've always tried to be conscious of how I represent women in my work. They don't have to be good or strong women, but they have to be complex.
I still don't look like what I think I look like.
As an actor, you usually live your life with faith.
The landscape you grow up in speaks to you in a way that nowhere else does.
I think it's damaging to know too much about a person, about an actor.
In general, costumes are the first thing in life that let other people know who we are. They indicate who the person is without saying anything.
I'm probably an actor that tends to, instead of putting things on, think about it more in terms of taking away what's not in the character, until I'm left with what is. If that makes sense. That's probably a particularly American way of working, but maybe not. The end of any movie is a readjustment.
Bad directors will tell you they absolutely know how to do it, and how it has to happen; there's this insecurity that leads them to feeling like they have to control everything.