Parker has appeared in films and series including RED, RED 2, Fried Green Tomatoes, Boys on the Side, The West Wing, and Angels in America, for which she received a Golden Globe and an Emmy Award for Best Supporting Actress.

Parker is also the recipient of the 2001 Tony Award for Best Actress for her performance in the Broadway play Proof. 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 1990 production of Craig Lucas' Prelude to a Kiss, playing the lead role of Rita.

She has mixed English, Irish, French, German, and Scottish ancestry.

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).

She has been nominated for three César Awards, two Online Film Critics Society Awards, and two Academy Awards.

After moving to the United States in 1990, she became an American citizen in 2001. They really raised me with a love of art, bringing me to museums and seeing things that a child wouldn't see at that age.

Julie Delpy was born in Paris to Albert Delpy, a theater director, and Marie Pillet, an actress in feature films and the avant-garde theater. On the stages of Paris, Delpy's parents were involved in underground theatre. I would see Ingmar Bergman movies when I was 9 and totally go for it.

And they would bring me to see Francis Bacon's paintings, which I loved: so dark and at the same time it's so wonderful.