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Mary-Louise Parker: Her Early Work
Acting was always her passion and she graduated from the North Carolina School of the Arts with acting as her major. In the late '80s, she travelled to New York where she got a job measuring feet at Ecco. After a few minor roles, she made her Broadway debut in a 1990 production of Craig Lucas's Prelude to a Kiss, playing the main role of Rita. For her performance she won the Clarence Derwent Award and was nominated for a Tony award. She also briefly dated her co-star Timothy Hutton. However, when the play was made into a film,
Meg Ryan took over Parker's role.
That same year she was noticed by critics worldwide when she appeared in the movie adaptation of another Craig Lucas play, the poignant Longtime Companion, one of the first movies to truly deal the AIDS virus. This role was followed by her appearance in Fried Green Tomatoes in 1991 alongside Jessica Tandy,
Mary Stuart Masterson and
Kathy Bates.
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