Parker Christian Posey (born November 8, 1968) is an American actress and musician. Posey is the recipient of a Golden Globe Award nomination, a Satellite Award nomination and two Independent Spirit Award nominations.
Posey made her film debut in Joey Breaker (1993). Following small roles in Coneheads and the cult classic Dazed and Confused (both also 1993), she was labeled “Queen of the Indies” for starring in a succession of independent films throughout the 1990s, such as Sleep with Me (1994), Frisk, Party Girl, The Doom Generation, Kicking and Screaming (all 1995), The Daytrippers (1996), Henry Fool, The House of Yes and Clockwatchers (all 1997). Her other notable film appearances include You’ve Got Mail (1998), Scream 3 (2000), Josie and the Pussycats (2001), Personal Velocity, The Sweetest Thing (both 2002), Blade: Trinity (2004), Superman Returns, Fay Grim (both 2006), Broken English (2007), The Eye (2008), Spring Breakdown (2009), Inside Out (2011), Irrational Man (2015), Café Society (2016), and Columbus (2017).
She frequently works with Christopher Guest and has appeared in several of his mockumentaries: Waiting for Guffman (1996), Best in Show (2000), A Mighty Wind (2003), For Your Consideration (2006), and Mascots (2016).
Outside of film, Posey starred in the television movie Hell on Heels: The Battle of Mary Kay (2002) and has guest-starred on numerous series, such as Futurama (2000), The Simpsons (2000), Will & Grace (2001), Boston Legal (2006), Parks and Recreation (2011), The Good Wife (2011–12), Louie (2012), Inside Amy Schumer (2014), and Search Party (2016). From 2018 to 2021, she starred as Dr. Smith on the Netflix series Lost in Space.
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Parker Posey Biography / Wiki
Name | Parker Posey |
Also Know | Parker Christian Posey |
Gender | Female |
Known For | Acting |
Place of Birth | Baltimore, Maryland, USA |
Date of Birth | November 08, 1968 |
Age(as in 2023) | 54 |
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Parker Posey Acting Movies
Movie Name | Character | Release Date | Overview |
Frankenstein | Detective Carson O’Conner | 2004-10-09 | An investigation into a serial killer leads two detectives to discover that Dr. Frankenstein and his creature are still alive after two centuries of g… |
Fay Grim | Fay Grim | 2006-09-11 | Many years after her notorious husband, Henry Fool, fled after killing a neighbor, Fay Grim receives a visit from CIA agent Fulbright, who tells her t… |
The House of Yes | Jackie-O | 1997-10-10 | Jackie-O is anxiously awaiting the visit of her brother home for Thanksgiving, but isn’t expecting him to bring a friend — and she’s even more shock… |
Broken English | Nora Wilder | 2007-11-22 | Nora Wilder is freaking out. Everyone around her is either in a relationship, married, or has children. Nora is in her thirties, alone with job she’s … |
Party Girl | Mary | 1995-06-09 | Although Mary has little income, she still finds ways to spend her nights at clubs. After being arrested for throwing an illegal rave, she asks her au… |
The Oh in Ohio | Priscilla Chase | 2006-03-30 | Priscilla and Jack appear to be the perfect couple, but they have a secret: She is sexually frustrated. They separate in the hope of resolving the sit… |
Happy Tears | Jane | 2009-10-16 | Two sisters return home to care for their aging father…. |
Price Check | Susan Felders | 2012-11-16 | A middle aged, middle class, former music industry executive with a stay-at-home wife and son toils away at a supermarket chain. When a new high energ… |
The Love Guide | Angelica Lovecraft | 2011-10-15 | A comedy about a woman who saves her chicken farm and her family by agreeing to be the subject of a “reality show” with a celebrity Hollywood weight l… |
The Misadventures of Margaret | Margaret Nathan | 1998-12-23 | A timid, insecure popular author with an overly-attentive professor husband decide to write an erotic novel. With encouragement from her sister and a … |
Iris | 1994-02-22 | The job, should you choose to accept it: two young women playing out roles associated with the purchasing of real estate. Questions regarding the worr… | |
The Sisters of Mercy | 2004-11-23 | A documentary concerning the periods between the actual takes during the production of Hartley’s short film “Iris,” revealing the imagination, diligen… | |
The Architect | Drew | 2016-05-20 | When a couple sets out to build their dream house, they enlist the services of an uncompromising modernist architect, who proceeds to build HIS dream … |
Description of a Struggle | Wanda | 1993-08-28 | Experimental short film loosely based on Franz Kafka’s short story of the same name…. |
First Love, Fatal Love | 1991-04-09 | A docudrama telling the true story of a young woman who learns she has contracted the AIDS virus after an encounter with a fellow student while in col… | |
Grab | Narrator | 2011-01-01 | A look at the little-documented Grab Day in the villages of the Laguna Pueblo tribe, who annually throw water and food from the rooftop to people stan… |
The Booksellers | herself (voice) | 2020-03-06 | What once seemed like an esoteric world now seems essential to our culture: the community of rare book dealers and collectors who, in their love of th… |
Still Screaming: The Ultimate Scary Movie Retrospective | Self | 2011-04-14 | A year in the making, Still Screaming is the definitive documentary on the making of the iconic Scream movies. Dive into the fascinating success story… |
Personal Velocity | Greta Herskowitz | 2002-01-12 | In a series of three vignettes, three women in turn struggle to free themselves from the men who restrict their personal freedom…. |
SubUrbia | Erica | 1997-02-07 | A group of suburban teenagers try to support each other through the difficult task of becoming adults…. |
Spring Breakdown | Becky St. Germaine | 2009-05-22 | Three women in their thirties head to a popular Spring Break destination and try to relive the Spring Break they never had…. |
The Daytrippers | Jo Malone | 1997-03-05 | Eliza D’Amico thinks her marriage to Louis is going great until she finds a mysterious love note to her husband. Concerned, she goes to her mother for… |
Clockwatchers | Margaret J. Burrell | 1997-06-12 | The relationship between four female temps all working for the same credit company is threatened with the arrival of a new hire, who lands a permanent… |
And Now a Word from Our Sponsor | Karen Hillridge | 2013-05-10 | Adan Kundle, CEO of a major advertising agency, is discovered unconscious in front of a wall of TVs. When he wakes in the hospital, Adan can only comm… |
Opera No. 1 | Fairy #1 | 1994-01-02 | Short film by Hal Hartley with Parker Posey and Adrienne Shelley…. |
Highland Park | Shirley Paine | 2013-06-08 | A high school faculty lotto pool places its fate in the lucky numbers they’ve played for ten years after hearing budget cuts have eliminated all their… |
Dinner at Fred’s | Celia | 1997-10-02 | A young businessman with a skill for magic tricks breaks down en route to his fiancee’s parents’ house on Christmas and ends up spending the holiday w… |
Ned Rifle | Fay Grim | 2015-04-01 | Henry and Fay’s son Ned sets out to find and kill his father for destroying his mother’s life. But his aims are frustrated by the troublesome Susan, w… |
Hell on Heels: The Battle of Mary Kay | Jinger Heath | 2002-10-06 | Cosmetics mogul Mary Kay Ash faces competition from a driven newcomer, who plots to take apart her control of the makeup industry… |
Elsewhere | Marie | 2020-01-24 | A man does everything in his power to keep ownership of a seaside cottage he built with his late wife…. |
Flirt | Emily | 1993-09-11 | In New York, Bill struggles to decide whether he has a future with Emily, while attempting to restrain Walter, the angry husband of a woman he thinks … |
The Making of ‘Fay Grim’ or: How Do You Spell Espionage? | Herself | 2007-05-22 | A short documentary about the making of ‘Fay Grim.’… |
The Eye | Helen Wells | 2008-02-01 | Violinist Sydney Wells was accidentally blinded by her sister Helen when she was five years old. She submits to a cornea transplantation, and while re… |
For Your Consideration | Callie Webb | 2006-11-22 | The possibility of Oscar gold holds the cast and crew of an independent film in its grip after the performance of its virtually unknown, veteran star … |
Henry Fool | Fay Grim | 1997-09-07 | An egocentric bum transforms the lives of a shy New Jersey garbageman and his sister…. |
Adam & Steve | Rhonda | 2005-04-24 | Adam and Steve are two gay youths who have a one-night stand that ends embarrassingly. Nearly two decades later, Adam, now a Manhattan tour guide, and… |
Inside Out | Claire Small | 2011-09-27 | For the last thirteen years AJ has been behind bars, convicted of manslaughter for killing a man who intended to kill his best friend, Jack. Now relea… |
Palacetor | The Magician | 2016-07-27 | Gary Graham assembles an inspiring cast of seven leading ladies—including Parker Posey, Kara Walker, and Sunrise Ruffalo—to bring his Fall ‘16 c… |
Laws of Attraction | Serena | 2004-04-04 | Amidst a sea of litigation, two New York City divorce lawyers find love…. |
You’ve Got Mail | Patricia Eden | 1998-12-17 | Book superstore magnate, Joe Fox and independent book shop owner, Kathleen Kelly fall in love in the anonymity of the Internet—both blissfully unawa… |
The Anniversary Party | Judy Adams | 2001-06-09 | While celebrating their reconciliation and six years of marriage, the American actress Sally Nash and the British novelist Joe Therrian receive their … |
Kicking and Screaming | Miami | 1995-10-06 | After college graduation, Grover’s girlfriend Jane tells him she’s moving to Prague to study writing. Grover declines to accompany her, deciding inste… |
Flirt | Emily | 1995-09-14 | The same situation is played out in different cities (New York, Berlin and Tokyo). A lover has to choose whether to commit to a partner who is returni… |
Irrational Man | Rita | 2015-07-17 | On a small town college campus, a philosophy professor in existential crisis gives his life new purpose when he enters into a relationship with his st… |
Hairbrained | Sheila Pettifog | 2013-11-25 | A fourteen-year-old genius gets rejected by Harvard and ends up at a much lower ranked school where he makes friends with a mature student…. |
What Rats Won’t Do | Mirella Burton | 1998-07-01 | Soon to be married lawyer Kate Beckenham has landed the case of a lifetime. Her courtroom opponent turns out to be the charming Jack Sullivan, who has… |
The Con Is On | Gina | 2018-05-04 | In an effort to avoid paying off a massive gambling debt to a notorious mobster in England, a couple flees to Los Angeles and hatch a jewel theft plot… |
Tracey Ullman Takes on New York | 1993-10-09 | Tracey Ullman and her wacky cast of characters take a bite out of the Big Apple…. | |
Thelma | Deceived by a phone scammer pretending to be her grandson, a 90-year-old woman sets out on a quest to reclaim what was taken from her…. | ||
Superman Returns | Kitty Kowalski | 2006-06-28 | Superman returns to discover his 5-year absence has allowed Lex Luthor to walk free, and that those he was closest to felt abandoned and have moved on… |
Josie and the Pussycats | Fiona | 2001-04-06 | Josie, Melody and Val are three small-town girl musicians determined to take their rock band out of their garage and straight to the top, while remain… |
Drunks | Debbie | 1997-03-14 | At the beginning of a nightly Alcoholics Anonymous meeting, Jim seems particularly troubled. His sponsor encourages him to talk that night, the first … |
Grace of Monaco | Madge Tivey-Faucon | 2014-04-22 | The story of former Hollywood star Grace Kelly’s crisis of marriage and identity, during a political dispute between Monaco’s Prince Rainier III and F… |
Café Society | Rad Taylor | 2016-05-11 | The story of a young man who arrives in Hollywood during the 1930s hoping to work in the film industry, falls in love, and finds himself swept up in t… |
Columbus | Eleanor | 2017-08-04 | When a renowned architecture scholar falls suddenly ill during a speaking tour, his son Jin finds himself stranded in Columbus, Indiana – a small Midw… |
My Art | Angie | 2016-09-05 | A 65-year-old single artist living in New York City has a good life: a stable teaching job, successful friends, and a loyal, aging dog named Bing. As … |
The Sweetest Thing | Judy Webb | 2002-04-12 | Christina’s love life is stuck in neutral. After years of avoiding the hazards of a meaningful relationship, one night while club-hopping with her gir… |
Frisk | Ferguson | 1996-03-22 | A first person narrative of a gay serial killer explores violence, sexuality, and imagination…. |
The Event | Nick Devivo | 2003-01-01 | An intense relationship drama that takes the form of a mystery, The Event centers around a series of unexplained deaths that occur among the gay commu… |
Blade: Trinity | Danica Talos | 2004-12-08 | For years, Blade has fought against the vampires in the cover of the night. But now, after falling into the crosshairs of the FBI, he is forced out in… |
Hemingway & Gellhorn | Mary Welsh Hemingway | 2012-08-27 | Writer Ernest Hemingway begins a romance with fellow scribe Martha Gellhorn…. |
Making Dazed | Herself | 2005-03-01 | This documentary reunites the cast of the 1993 film “Dazed and Confused”, and features behind-the-scenes footage from the making of the film. A decade… |
Waiting for Guffman | Libby Mae Brown | 1996-08-21 | Aspiring director Corky St. Clair and the marginally talented amateur cast of his hokey small-town musical production go overboard when they learn tha… |
Mascots | Cindi Babineaux | 2016-10-11 | Eager contestants don big heads and furry suits to vie for the title of World’s Best Mascot…. |
21 Years: Richard Linklater | Self – Actress | 2014-11-07 | A journey through the professional life of innovative film director Richard Linklater: 21 years creating films, carving his signature in pop culture; … |
Independent’s Day | Self | 1998-01-15 | Filmmakers at the Sundance Film Festival discuss what it is like to be an independent filmmaker, and what Sundance has done for them…. |
Nightstalkers, Daywalkers, and Familiars: Inside the World of ‘Blade Trinity’ | Self | 2005-07-13 | A short documentary on the making of Blade Trinity…. |
Beau Is Afraid | Elaine Bray | 2023-04-14 | A paranoid man embarks on an epic odyssey to get home to his mother…. |
The Parenting | A young couple, Rohan and Josh, host a “meet the parents†weekend at a cozy rental house in the country, only to find it is already haunted by a 4… | ||
Basquiat | Mary Boone | 1996-08-09 | The brief life of Jean Michel Basquiat, a world renowned New York street artist struggling with fame, drugs and his identity…. |
A Mighty Wind | Sissy Knox | 2003-04-16 | Director Christopher Guest reunites the team from “Best In Show” and “Waiting for Guffman” to tell the story of 60’s-era folk musicians, who, inspired… |
Scream 3 | Jennifer Jolie | 2000-02-03 | While Sidney lives in safely guarded seclusion, bodies begin dropping around the Hollywood set of STAB 3, the latest movie based on the gruesome Woods… |
Mixed Nuts | Rollerblader | 1994-12-21 | The events of a crisis hotline business on one crazy night during the Christmas holidays…. |
Best in Show | Meg Swan | 2000-09-29 | The tension is palpable, the excitement is mounting and the heady scent of competition is in the air as hundreds of eager contestants from across Amer… |
Dead Connection | Denise | 1994-01-01 | After a series of murders in motel rooms are connected, a cop, Dickson, heads out on the trail to find a serial killer. He discovers that he signs the… |
The Venice Project | Myra | 1999-09-09 | In this witty drama, the future of art is examined from two vantage points: the years 1699 and 1999. Roland is an avant-garde artist in Venice, Califo… |
Requiem for Krypton: Making ‘Superman Returns’ | Herself | 2006-11-28 | A detailed behind-the-scenes documentary on the making of Superman Returns…. |
Sleep with Me | Athena | 1994-09-23 | Six different writers wrote a scene each of this romantic comedy featuring the marriage and turbulent relationship of Joseph and Sarah, with Joseph’s … |
The Doom Generation | Brandi | 1995-10-27 | Jordan White and Amy Blue, two troubled teens, pick up an adolescent drifter, Xavier Red. Together, the threesome embarks on a sex and violence-filled… |
Joey Breaker | Irene Kildare | 1993-03-04 | Joey Breaker is a fast-talking, ambitious, workaholic agent representing actors, screenwriters, and comedians for the New York firm of Morgan Creative… |
Coneheads | Stephanie | 1993-07-23 | A pair of aliens arrive on Earth to prepare for invasion, but crash instead. With enormous cone-shaped heads, robotlike walks and an appetite for toil… |
Amateur | Girl Squatter | 1994-08-05 | A man wakes up in an alley, bleeding and with no memory of who he is. He stumbles into a coffee shop and is befriended by a charitable ex-nun who is f… |
Dazed and Confused | Darla Marks | 1993-09-24 | The adventures of a group of Texas teens on their last day of school in 1976, centering on student Randall Floyd, who moves easily among stoners, jock… |
Whether You Like It or Not: The Story of Hedwig | Herself | 2003-09-07 | Documentary about the creation of the stage musical “Hedwig and the Angry Inch” and its subsequent film adaptation…. |
Parker Posey Production Movies
Movie Name | Job | Release Date | Overview |
The Booksellers | Executive Producer | 2020-03-06 | What once seemed like an esoteric world now seems essential to our culture: the community of rare book dealers and collectors who, in their love of th… |
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