Molly Parker

Molly Parker

Nascimento : 1972-06-30, Maple Ridge, British Columbia, Canada

História

Molly Parker (born 30 June 1972) is a Canadian actress, writer, and director. She is best known for her roles in independent films, as well as television. Her accolades include two Genie Awards, one Independent Spirit Awards nomination, one Primetime Emmy Award nomination, and three nominations for the Screen Actors Guild Award. A native of the Maple Ridge suburb of Vancouver, British Columbia, Parker began her career in Canadian film and television projects, and garnered critical attention for her portrayal of a necrophiliac medical student in the controversial drama Kissed (1996). She subsequently starred in the television thriller Intensity (1997) before landing her first major American film, the drama Waking the Dead (2000). She gained further critical attention for her role as a Las Vegas escort in Wayne Wang's low-budget drama The Center of the World (2001), for which she was nominated for an Independent Spirit Award for Best Lead Actress. In the early 2000s, Parker had lead roles in several films, including Max (2002), Pure (also 2002), and Nine Lives (2005). Beginning in 2004, she starred as Alma Garret on the HBO Western series Deadwood, appearing in all three seasons. She subsequently appeared in the post-apocalyptic thriller The Road (2009), and the independent drama Trigger (2010). In 2011, she appeared as a recurring guest star in the sixth season of Dexter, before being cast as politician Jacqueline Sharp on the Netflix series House of Cards in 2014; she appeared in the role for three seasons, earning a Primetime Emmy nomination for Outstanding Guest Actress in a Drama Series for her performance in the fourth season. Parker's subsequent film roles include the drama American Pastoral (2016) and two Netflix-produced features: the crime drama Small Crimes, and the Stephen King adaptation 1922 (both 2017). She also starred in Errol Morris's docudrama miniseries Wormwood. From 2018 to 2021, she starred as Maureen Robinson in Lost in Space, a Netflix-produced remake of the 1965 TV series. Description above from the Wikipedia article Molly Parker, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

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Filmes

Peter Pan & Wendy
Mrs. Darling
Wendy Darling, uma jovem que não quer ir para o colégio interno, conhece Peter Pan, um menino que se recusa a crescer. Com seus irmãos e uma fada, Tinker Bell, ela viaja com Peter para o mundo mágico da Terra do Nunca. Lá, ela encontra o pirata perverso, Capitão Gancho, e embarca em uma aventura emocionante que vai mudar sua vida para sempre.
Jockey
Ruth Wilkes
An aging jockey is determined to win one last championship, but his dream is complicated when a young rookie shows up claiming to be his son.
2149: The Aftermath
Lillian
In a future society, a young man named Darwin lives, like everyone else; in a small cement module with little more than a computer. One night, during a violent storm, lightning hits Darwin’s module and knocks out his computer, forcing him to venture outside. He is surprised to come across a beautiful young woman, living with her family in the woods, who teach him how to speak and show him the value of human contact. Meanwhile, the security forces have sent drones to search for and recapture him.
Pieces of a Woman
Eva Woodward
Uma mulher em luto embarca numa viagem emocional após a perda do seu bebê. Diante dessa perda, ela terá que lidar com as consequências que seu luto tem nas relações com o marido e a mãe, lutando para que seu mundo não desabe por completo.
Palavras nas Paredes do Banheiro
Beth
Adam é um estudante que sofre de esquizofrenia paranoica acompanhadas de alucinações, e por conta disso, resolve participar do teste de uma nova droga que promete esconder todos estes sintomas de seus colegas de sala.
Deadwood: O Filme
Alma Ellsworth
Os residentes de Deadwood se reúnem para comemorar a oficialização da Dakota do Sul como um estado americano. Porém, 12 anos mais velhos, o tempo gerou graves consequências nesses cidadãos, especialmente em Al Swearengen, que arruma confusão aonde passa.
A Madeline de Madeline
Evangeline
Mesmo quando Madeline é ela mesma, é difícil dizer se está apenas interpretando o papel de Madeline. Aos olhos de sua ansiosa mãe, a garota é uma criatura vulnerável cujo óbvio distúrbio mental requer cuidado e tratamento médico. Mas no palco, na oficina teatral dirigida pela exigente e por vezes até mesmo imprudente.
Magic Bullet
Rachel
Over the course of a night, Rachel, a bereaved clinical psychologist, combats her grief with elaborate self-soothing rituals while Lia, a regional shopping network host, tries to obliterate hers in a self-destructive haze. They collide in a televised confrontation.
Wormwood
Alice Olson
In this genre-bending tale, Errol Morris explores the mysterious death of a U.S. scientist entangled in a secret Cold War program known as MK-Ultra.
1922
Arlette James
Um fazendeiro confessa o assassinato da esposa. No entanto, esse é só o começo desta trama macabra inspirada em um livro de Stephen King.
Bird
Writer
When Sam, a woman mired in regret, goes to visit her aged parents, the disappearance of her mother's pet bird threatens to unravel her tenuous hold on life.
Bird
Director
When Sam, a woman mired in regret, goes to visit her aged parents, the disappearance of her mother's pet bird threatens to unravel her tenuous hold on life.
Pequenos Delitos
Charlotte Boyd
A história de um ex-policial desonrado que acaba de cumprir uma pena de seis anos de prisão por uma tentativa de homicídio. Ao sair ele volta para casa em busca de resgate, mas acaba preso na confusão que deixou.
Pastoral Americana
Sheila Smith
Nos tempos do colégio, Seymour Levov era um grande atleta. Depois dos estudos, ele se casa com uma antiga rainha de beleza da cidade, e herda os negócios rentáveis de seu pai. A vida parece perfeita, até a filha do casal começar a manifestar atitudes políticas extremistas, participando de atos terroristas mortais durante a Guerra do Vietnã.
2149: The Aftermath
Lillian
In an oppressive future, where everyone's only contact is their computer, one lonely young man is forced to venture forth in search of human contact.
Weirdos
Laurie
It's July 1976, and two Nova Scotian teens, Kit and Alice, are hitting the road with their sights on Sydney and their minds on the future. With them is Kit's new imaginary friend, who looks conspicuously like Andy Warhol, but who assures Kit that he is a spirit animal. Kit and Alice have big dreams, but do they really want the same things?
A Nona Vida de Louis Drax
Dalton
Louis Drax é um garoto brilhante na escola, mas com sérias dificuldades em fazer amigos. Os colegas o consideram estranho e vários acontecimentos sombrios se passam ao seu redor. Quando completa nove anos de idade, a criança sofre uma queda violenta, que quase causa a sua morte. Ninguém sabe explicar o motivo do acidente, até o Doutor Allan Pascal começar a suspeitar que os eventos associados a Louis sejam mais do que uma simples coincidência.
Heritage Minutes: Nursing Sisters
Narrator
Nursing Sisters serve at the No. 3 Canadian Stationary Hospital in France during the First World War.
Warren Jeffs: Profeta da Lei
Janine Jeffs
Desvende a história verdadeira do líder mórmon fundamentalista que passou mais de um ano na lista dos mais procurados do FBI por fugir das acusações de supostos arranjos de casamentos ilegais envolvendo meninas menores de idade.
Pete's Christmas
Pamela
Um filho do meio, ofuscado, tem uma inesperada segunda chance e terceira, quarta e muitas mais, para fazer o dia de Natal desastroso de sua família, perfeito, quando ele se vê destinado a viver o dia, e novo e outra vez.
The Playroom
Donna Cantwell
Four children in their attic hideaway make up a fantastic story, while downstairs their parents weave a drunken intrigue of their own.
Hemingway e Gellhorn
Pauline Hemingway
O escritor Ernest Hemingway começa um romance com a colega escriba Martha Gellhorn.
No Limite da Loucura
Amy Kettering
Desesperada com o sequestro de sua filha Emily, a enfermeira Amy se descobre envolvida numa trama armada pelos poderosos da cidade. Sem poder contar com a polícia ou as autoridades, ela precisará lutar sozinha para resgatar a menina e fazer justiça.
É Assim Que Eu Sou
Sherri Nichol
Andy Nichol é um jovem de 12 anos, que como a maioria dos jovens da sua idade, tenta evitar confusão e motivos para ser ridicularizado e punido pelos colegas da escola.Adorado pelos alunos, Mr. Simon, interpretado por Harris, coloca Andy e Stanley como dupla num projeto da escola.Stanley é perseguido por ser diferente, ruivo, com “a cabeça muito grande para seu corpo e as orelhas muito grande para sua cabeça”. Nessa relação, Andy e Stanley aprenderão um sobre o outro, e Mr. Simon terá que enfrentar uma fofoca que envolve preconceitos e intolerância. (e 12 - Estimado 12 Anos)
Oliver Sherman
Irene Page
Feeling lost and disconnected, with no family of his own, veteran Sherman Oliver sets out to the countryside in search of the soldier who saved him back in the war. That man, Franklin Page, has long since moved on - to a wife, two children, and a reliable job in a reliably safe and quiet rural town. The stability Franklin worked so hard to establish is soon threatened, and the violence he believed he'd left behind in the war begins to re-emerge and cloud over both the household and the town itself.
Trigger
Kat
Ten years after ending their partnership as rock musicians, two women become re-acquainted in the course of one night.
A Estrada
Friendly Woman
O mundo foi destruído há mais de 10 anos, mas ninguém sabe o que exatamente aconteceu. Como resultado, não há energia, vegetação ou comida. Milhões de pessoas morreram, devido aos incêndios, inundações ou queimadas que se seguiram ao cataclisma. Neste contexto vivem um pai (Viggo Mortensen) e seu filho (Kodi Smit-McPhee), que sobrevivem de quaisquer alimento e vestuário que conseguem roubar. Apesar dos contratempos, eles seguem viagem pela estrada, sempre rumo ao oeste dos Estados Unidos.
Rear Projection: Molly Parker
2006 experimental short by Mark Lewis
Hollywoodland: Bastidores da Fama
Laurie Simo
16 de junho de 1959. O ator George Reeves (Ben Affleck), mais conhecido como o protagonista da série de TV "As Aventuras do Super-Homem", comete suicídio. O ato ocorreu no quarto de Reeves, deixando sua namorada, a aspirante a atriz Leonore Lemmon (Robin Tunney), e milhões de jovens fãs boquiabertos. Helen Bessolo (Lois Smith), a mãe de Reeves, não se conforma com a possibilidade de que seu filho tenha se suicidado e contrata o detetive Louis Simo (Adrien Brody), que tem por missão provar que o caso na verdade foi de assassinato. Simo passa a investigar Reeves, descobrindo seu antigo caso com Toni Mannix (Diane Lane), esposa de um poderoso executivo do estúdio MGM.
O Sacrifício
Sister Rose / Sister Thorn
Um agente da polícia viaja para uma ilha remota para investigar o desaparecimento de uma menina. Chegando lá, percebe que forças sinistras estão por trás de rituais pagãos envolvendo os estranhos moradores da ilha. O agente também começa a desconfiar da possibilidade de sacrifício humano nos cerimoniais.
Who Loves the Sun
Maggie Claire
A man (Lukas Haas) encounters a childhood friend (Adam Scott) who had an affair with his wife (Molly Parker) five years earlier.
Questão de Vida
Lisa
As vidas de nove mulheres se cruzam à medida que lidam com infidelidade, perda, romance e maternidade. A portadora de câncer Camille tem dificuldade em enfrentar sua doença potencialmente fatal, a prisioneira Sandra anseia por ver a filha, e Sonia percebe que seu namorado está saindo com outra.
Quebrando a Concorrência
Kate
Quando a performance de Max não é o suficiente para concorrer com sobrinhos de produtores e grandes, nomes, sua única opção é quebrar a concorrência - literalmente. Mas conforme os papéis ficam maiores, a competição acirrada, os riscos altos e agora com um policial à paisana em seu caminho, Max precisa lidar com sua ambição e as escolhas que tomou.
Pecados Mortais
Madeline Finney
Andrews um prestigiado Padre é encontrado com as mãos sujas de sangue ao lado do corpo de um jovem garoto de programa. Para a polícia o caso é simples e claro: Pe. Andrews é o assassino. Ele insiste que é inocente, mas no entanto se recusa a revelar o assassino pois é impedido pelos votos de silêncio da confissão. Seus superiores enviam Pe. Daniel Clemens para minimizar os danos a imagem de Pe. Andrew. Mas quando Pe. Andrew é encontrado morto e Daniel decide a qualquer custo limpar o nome do colega morto - mesmo que para isso ele próprio se torne o alvo do assassino.
Anjos Rebeldes
Emily Leighton
Século 19, EUA. Duas mulheres arriscam suas vidas pelo direito de votar. Juntas desafiam as forças conservadoras de seu país para a aprovação de uma emenda constitucional que mudará seu futuro e o de muitas outras
Marion Bridge
Agnes
When three estranged sisters reunite to care for their dying mother, old conflicts and secrets return to the surface.
Undying Love
Narrator
"Undying Love" tells the poignant, enduring, and miraculous love stories of the survivors of World War II. Against the brutalized landscape of post-war Europe, this film focuses on how survivors struggled to reconstruct personal identities and forge intimate relationships. Using searing testimonies, poetic dramatizations, archives and images of romantic love from the pre- and post-Holocaust era, Undying Love is a textured retelling of several extraordinary love stories which emerged “out of the ashes.
Homens com Vassouras
Amy Foley
Há 5 anos Chris Cutter (Paul Gross) deixou Long Bay, mas o falecimento de Donald Foley (James B. Douglas) faz com que ele e outros amigos tentem algo quase impossível: cumprir o último desejo de Donald, que é que vençam o campeonato de pedras curling - pedras de 42 libras que deslizam pela pista tentando chegar o mais próximo do alvo, que fica desenhado no chão, e enquanto a pedra desliza membros do time freneticamente usam vassouras, para limpar qualquer obstáculo.
Pure
Mel
Após a morte do marido, Mel (Molly Parker), a mãe de Paul (Harry Eden) de 10 anos, conta com um velho amigo, Lenny (David Wenham), que é um cafetão e traficante. Diante a situação, o jovem precisa lidar com a mãe viciada em heroína e cuidar do irmão mais novo. Com medo de ser abandonado pela mãe, Paul fica amigo da garçonete Louise (Keira Knightley), uma mulher grávida que também é viciada em drogas.
Max
Nina Rothman
In 1918, a young, disillusioned Adolf Hitler strikes up a friendship with a Jewish art dealer while weighing a life of passion for art vs. talent at politics
Looking for Leonard
Monica
Ted, his girlfriend Jo, and his brother Johnny are small-time robbers in Montreal. The brothers spend their time watching TV, while Jo rereads Leonard Cohen's novel "Beautiful Losers" and attends writing classes. Luka, a Czech immigrant, picks up Jo when he sees her shoplifting. When Johnny surprises Luka kissing Jo, he attacks him. In the ensuing fight Jo accidentally kills Johnny, and Luka leaves the scene, but drops his wallet. The police assume that Luka attacked Johnny after a break-in and Jo goes along with that, but feels guilty about it.
Looking for Leonard
Executive Producer
Ted, his girlfriend Jo, and his brother Johnny are small-time robbers in Montreal. The brothers spend their time watching TV, while Jo rereads Leonard Cohen's novel "Beautiful Losers" and attends writing classes. Luka, a Czech immigrant, picks up Jo when he sees her shoplifting. When Johnny surprises Luka kissing Jo, he attacks him. In the ensuing fight Jo accidentally kills Johnny, and Luka leaves the scene, but drops his wallet. The police assume that Luka attacked Johnny after a break-in and Jo goes along with that, but feels guilty about it.
Pássaros Raros
Alice
A down-and-out restaurateur and his neighbor hatch a plan to lure luminaries to their small Newfoundland town.
Last Wedding
Sarah
Three couples in Vancouver navigate their relationships: first jobs, first crises, professional jealousy, an affair, and lack of communication. Noah and Zipporah marry after a brief courtship. She wants to be a singer and stalls out when she fails. He's working hard at a business that may go under. Sarah and Shane are architects; he can't handle her success at a downtown firm. Leslie is a librarian, sour and prickly; her mate, Peter, is a college teacher whose head is turned by a student. Can any of these couples sort things out and stay together? Should they?
Suspicious River
Leila Murray
A young married woman sells her body, not just for money, to guests at the motel where she works as a receptionist.
O Centro do Mundo
Florence
Um gênio da computação residente em San Francisco e que ganhou milhões trabalhando no mercado digital conhece uma bela stripper em um clube. Imediatamente eles se sentem atraídos um pelo outro e partem rumo a Las Vegas onde, por três dias, irão explorar os limites de suas sexualidades e a natureza da paixão e do prazer.
The War Bride
Sylvia
During World War II, a Cockney woman marries a Canadian soldier and adjusts to life in Alberta.
Amor Maior Que a Vida
Juliet Beck
Fielding Pierce (Billy Crudup) é um oficial da guarda costeira que se apaixona por Sarah Williams (Jennifer Connelly), uma jovem que contesta o sistema vigente no ano rebelde de 1972 e morre numa explosão causada por terroristas. Dez anos depois, ele começa a ter visões de sua amada e começa a acreditar que ela está viva.
Mulheres Entre o Céu e o Inferno
Julia
In an ethereal, high-ceilinged room, women stand, waiting. Perhaps it's Purgatory and they're dead. In the room, two young women, one an actress and the other a psychologist, watch the last few days of their lives on a TV screen. Both are having affairs with married men, each has a long encounter with her lover's wife, and both these scenes take place in a ladies' room, one backstage at a play that's about to preview, the other at an opera house during the first act. The relationships between each pair of younger and older women take surprising turns, and in the room with the TV, a sylph asks probing and challenging questions of the two young women as they watch.
O Enigma do Tempo
Daisy
Catherine meets Nick by accident and, after a whirlwind romance, the two get married and Catherine moves into Nick's apartment only that's the start of problems when an unseen intruder begins playing strange mind games with Catherine in an apparent attempt to drive her insane.
Sunshine, O Despertar de um Século
Hannah Wippler
O filme segue três gerações de uma família judia, os Sonnenschein, do antigo Império Austro-Húngaro no começo do Século XX até o período da Revolução de 1956. O protagonista central das três gerações é sempre o Ralph Fiennes, para mostrar, de certa forma, as semelhanças passadas de pai para filho.
The Five Senses
Anna Miller
Interconnected stories examine situations involving the five senses. Touch is represented by a massage therapist who is treating a woman, while her daughter accidentally loses the woman's pre-school daughter in the park. The older daughter meets a voyeur (vision), a professional house-cleaner has an acute sense of smell, a cake maker has lost her sense of taste, and an older man is losing his hearing.
Wonderland
Molly
There's little wonder in the working-class lives of Bill, Eileen, and their three grown daughters. They're lonely Londoners. Nadia, a cafe waitress, places personal ads, looking for love; Debbie, a single mom, entertains men at the hair salon after hours; her son spends part of the weekend with her ex, a man with a hair-trigger temper. Molly is expecting her first baby and its father acts as if the responsibility is too much for him.
Under Heaven
Cynthia
Two young lovers try to con a wealthy woman out of her inheritance by pretending to be brother and sister.
Intensity
Chyna Shepherd
Chyna Shepherd is a twenty-six-year-old psychology student who survived an extremely troubled past. While visiting Laura Templeton's house, a farm in the Napa Valley. A serial killer named Edgler Foreman Vess breaks into the house, killing Laura and her parents. Chyna survives, but she learns of Vess's captive: a girl, just as innocent as Chyna, trapped in Vess's home far from the Napa Valley.
Terapia do Prazer
Connie
Um casal feliz recém-casado visita um terapeuta sexual para determinar por que a esposa não consegue atingir o orgasmo com o marido. Isso faz com que uma horrível memória reprimida surja e ela se torne cada vez mais distante.
Contagious
Flight Attendant Stephanie
When shrimp from Mexico, tainted with Cholera, is served to people on a plane bound for LA, an outbreak ensues. A doctor sets out to find the source and contain it before it turns into an epidemic. And if things weren't bad enough, a drug mule from the plane, who was smuggling cocaine in his stomach, infects the drugs, which will be on the streets soon. And to top things off, her husband who is on a camping trip with their two children is sick but did not show any symptoms until they were isolated from the rest of the world. Can she get to them in time?
Kissed
Sandra Larson
Over the years, a child's romantic ideals about death blossom into necrophilia, the study of embalming and the most profound relationship of her life.
Ebbie - Uma Lição do Outro Mundo
Francine/Frannie
Na véspera de Natal, mulher egoísta e ambiciosa recebe a visita do fantasma de seu ex-sócio, que lhe mostra a futilidade de sua vida através de uma viagem pelo seu presente, passado e futuro. Adaptação de obra de Charles Dickens.
Deceived by Trust: A Moment of Truth Movie
Rachel Morton
When a student confides to her guidance counselor that the high school principal has been sexually harassing her, the guidance counselor attempts to have the principal fired. The student recants her story and transfers to another school. Just when everything seems to be lost, the counselor discovers the principal has a history of such activity. Can she prove the principals guilt before he does it again?
Freefall: Flight 174
Norma Sax
True story of a brand-new Canadian airliner running out of fuel in-flight and forced to glide to the nearest airfield.
The Ranger, the Cook and a Hole in the Sky
Sue
A young ranger in the Montana wilderness discovers the great forces of nature while learning the importance of honor, trust and integrity. Legendary veteran ranger Bill Bell educates the young man and guides him toward manhood. The year is 1919-a time when being a ranger meant more than operating expensive equipment. Forest fires were fought with guts and courage, not chemicals and airplanes. Bill Bell was the toughest ranger in an elite crew of very rugged men. A figure of heroic proportions, he was generally feared and respected by all. It was even rumored that he had at one time killed a sheep farmer, which only fueled his already enormous reputation. The young ranger does everything to remain in the good graces of Bill Bell, the senior ranger he idolizes. Their tentative rapport grows into a friendship through a hilarious and heroic rite of passage in which the younger ranger meets the test-and the woman of his dreams.
Serving in Silence: The Margarethe Cammermeyer Story
Lynette
After serving in the military for more than twenty years, including a tour of duty in Vietnam, Colonel Margarethe Cammermeyer (Glenn Close) had seen her share of battles. But nothing could prepare her for the fight ahead: an intensely personal struggle against the U.S. Army when she becomes the highest ranking officer ever to be discharged for being a lesbian. With the support of her partner Diane (Judy Davis), Cammermeyer undertakes an against-all-odds battle against the Army's policy. But to do so, she must risk everything – her career, her privacy and even the love of her family.
Little Criminals
Social Worker
Des is an eleven year old kid who has had a really bad deal in life. Crime and mischief are the main staples of his life and he and his friends cruise around the city and do things like vandalize, steal, light fires, and mug people. He thinks that he is untouchable because he cannot be charged until he is twelve. Cory becomes Des' best friend and they carry on like nothing can stop them; however, Des ends up at an assessment centre for troubled youths and may begin a new life without crime.
Paris or Somewhere
Peg Kennedy
A confessed killer wanders into a small community in the Canadian prairies.
Uma Garota Muito Especial
Lynne
Chris tem que mudar de escola para participar de um programa de música, mas um valentão chamado Kurt vai tornar sua vida impossível, então ele decidiu se vestir como uma menina para evitar isso. Aproveitando sua condição, ele se tornou (namorada) amiga de Marie e se apaixonou por ela.
My Son Johnny
Lori Spoda
Anthony Cortino lives with his mother in a quiet suburb. His father is dead, and his violent criminal brother is a long way off, in the city, and if Anthony has his way, that's where he will stay. However, Johnny runs into trouble with the police in the city, and when he asks to come home, his mother agrees, despite Anthony's objections. A reign of terror begins for Anthony then, for as long as Johnny is around, Anthony is never safe, and never has been.
Silent Motive
2nd Female Questioner
Notorious for writing the most successful - and scandalous - scripts in Hollywood, hit screenwriter Laura Bardell suddenly finds herself implicated in a baffling series of film-industry killings. What's worse, the killer is using the same ingenious methods Laura herself employed in her latest movie about a real-life murder case. To her horror, Laura realizes her script is coming to life - and turning her fictional words into homicidal reality.
The Mothership
One year after her husband mysteriously disappears, Sara Morse discovers a strange, extraterrestrial object underneath their home, Sara and her kids embark on a race to find their husband, father and, most important, the truth.