Hollywood A-lister and fashion icon Sarah Jessica Parker chats to us about horse riding in Ireland, people-watching in New York, returning to our TV screens, and why she’s learnt to say ‘parsley’ in every language!
Sarah Jessica Parker, 51, grew up in the mining town of Nelsonville, Ohio, with her three siblings. Her father Stephen, an aspiring writer, divorced her mother Barbara, a teacher, who went on to marry lorry driver Paul Forste and have four more children.
Sarah Jessica landed the lead role in the musical Annie when she was 14 years old, and what started out as a way of earning extra pocket money soon became a high-flying career.
In the late 1990s, she launched onto our TV screens in her role as sex columnist Carrie Bradshaw in the iconic HBO series Sex and the City. Since the final episode aired in 2004, the star has gone on to do films, including two Sex and the City sequels, as well as Did You Hear About the Morgans? and I Don’t Know How She Does It. Sarah Jessica took a break from TV roles, but is thrilled to be back in the new series, Divorce, which she stars in and co-produces. She plays a married woman going through a drawn-out split from her husband.
The actress lives in New York with her husband, actor Matthew Broderick, 54, and their three children, James, 14, and twin girls Marion and Tabitha, seven.
ON BEING BACK ON OUR SCREENS
I’m so excited to be returning to TV. I’ve always had a great affection for the medium; I love the urgency, the speed at which you work, and having the potential to play somebody for a very, very, very long time, and build a character over the years – depending on how long you get to be on air, of course! It’s particularly sentimental for me to be back at HBO, where I worked on Sex and the City. A first season of a TV show is filled with all sorts of wonderful challenges; it was thrilling to be a part of it.
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