Parker Posey, named for the '50s model and actress Suzy Parker, was born in Maryland on November 8, 1968 and raised in Mississippi. She attended the theater and drama program of State University of New York at Purchase before landing a role on the CBS soap opera "As The World Turns" in 1991.

Her first major motion picture was in 1993 as the high school bitch Darla in Richard Linklater's 1970's ensemble comedy Dazed and Confused, which also featured some Hollywood up-and-comers such as Matthew McConaughey, Renee Zellwegger, Ben Affleck and Joey Lauren Adams. She continued to do a variety of roles ranging from very small roles in Coneheads, Amateur and the TV mini-series "Tales of the City" to more supporting roles.

In 1995, Parker got her first starring role in Party Girl, which got her more noticed by fans and media. Against her agent's wishes, she continued to do smaller supporting roles as well as starring in independent films. By 1997, she had 20 movies on her resume and three films at the Sundance Film Festival that year. One of those films, The House of Yes, garnered huge praise from critics and garnered the Special Recognition award for Parker's performance.

Even though the media dubbed her the "Queen of the Indies," Parker started working more in mainstream movies, with parts in You've Got Mail and Scream 3 while still going back to smaller films like The Anniversary Party, Best in Show and Personal Velocity.

Parker's acting wasn't solely relegated to the big screen. On the small screen, she had recurring guest roles on "Will & Grace" and "Boston Legal," voice work on "The Simpsons" and "Futurama," and the made-for-TV movies "Frankenstein" and "Hell on Heels: The Battle of Mary Kay," the latter for which she received a Golden Globe nomination. She even made a Pepsi commercial with Jimmy Fallon.

On the stage, Parker has been in a few off-Broadway productions, which started with her debut in Taller Than a Dwarf alongside Matthew Broderick. Parker was nominated for the Lucille Lortel Award for her performance in the Lanford Wilson revival of Fifth of July, and won the award for her role in Hurlyburly two years later.

My name is Jason and you can contact me at jas[at]parkerposey.org. Please know that I have no connection to Parker or her management. This is simply a fansite that I started as a way to have news and information about Parker's projects in a collected form.

I started this site in 1999 after seeing Waiting for Guffman and The House of Yes, and realizing that the internet didn't really have much in the way of information about Parker or her career other than what was on IMDb. Now, the internet has greatly expanded and is overflowing with information in a multitude of ways -- The same Google search that yielded 10 results back then now offers hundreds, if not thousands of results.

I've decided to keep the site up, mostly for archival purposes, but do plan to still maintain and update it with relevant information. It's gone through many redesigns over the years (mostly due to whatever new HTML trick or design I learned) and I thought I would share a screen capture of each one here.