After playing Carrie Bradshaw on Sex and the City, which is now a cult classic, Sarah Jessica Parker became famous all over the world. But in reality, Parker had been playing for decades at that point, since she started when she was just a teenager.
The 56-year-old is now happily married, has kids, and works in a very good job. But the fact that she came from nothing is what makes her life so inspiring and powerful.
So how did Sarah Jessica Parker get where she is right now? All you need to know about her is this!
Sarah Jessica Parker might be one of the most famous people in the world right now, but when she was growing up, she didn’t have any money at all.
Life in the past for Sarah Jessica Parker
Sarah Jessica Parker was born in Ohio on March 25, 1965. She was the youngest of eight children. She had three full brothers and four half-siblings. Parker’s parents split up when she was very young.
Her mother, Barbara, raised her. Soon after her parents’ split, Barbara remarried a truck driver named Paul Forste. Her dad, on the other hand, was often unemployed, so Barbara, who ran a nursing home, had to look after the kids by herself. It wasn’t easy.
She told the Daily Mail, “The problem with talking about it is that people like to give it a Dickensian twist, as if I were an orphan.” “There were times when we didn’t have electricity because we didn’t pay the bill on time. We just didn’t have the money that month, and sometimes we got free lunches from the government.”
“But my parents were very smart and hardworking. Our lives were very rich culturally, even though they were kind of a mess in other ways.”
Even though no child should be poor, it happens all the time. Sarah Jessica Parker was just one of many people who didn’t want to start their lives that way. But when she looks back, she says she doesn’t have any regrets. Parker is thankful for her childhood because it taught her how to work hard.
“No one has ever given me any money to borrow. She said, “I think it was a privilege to grow up the way I did, and I think my son is strangely at a disadvantage because he was born into wealth and doesn’t know what that means.”
At age 8, I got my first paid lead part.
“I worry very much about that. I almost wish we could make a fake world for him. I know this will be misunderstood everywhere, but I think it’s good that he doesn’t have much.
Sarah Jessica Parker wanted to help her mother make money so that the family could live. From a young age, it was clear that she had a talent for acting, and she earned money by dancing and singing.
Parker got her first lead role in a play of The Little Match Girl when she was only eight years old.
“I asked my mum if I could try out for the play. So I went downtown to WLW-TV, which is our local NBC station, stood in line, and auditioned,” she said on an episode of Inside the Actor’s Studio.
“In the end, I was chosen to play The Little Match Girl. I think the filming took five days, and I was paid $500. The only rule was that they had to let me go in time for dance class.”
People in the business soon found out about her, and in 1976, she got her first part on Broadway in The Innocents.
Sarah Jessica Parker’s success grew from there. Parker wanted to be an actor, so Barbara and her family moved to New Jersey to help him. It didn’t take her long to make a lot of money, and she soon became the main source of income for her family.
Sarah Jessica Parker took lessons in both dance and singing. She went to the Professional Children’s School and the American Ballet School to learn how to dance.
‘Sex and the City’ by Sarah Jessica Parker.
In 1979, Sarah Jessica Parker’s big break came when she played the child Annie in the Broadway show Annie. From there, Parker went to Dwight Morrow High School. At the same time, she kept starring in plays.
After Sarah Jessica Parker finished from high school, she went into acting full time. In 1982, when she was cast in the series Square Pegs, she had her first big break on TV. From there, Parker went on to be in more TV shows and films, and as the 1990s got closer, she was in more and more well-known films.
In 1991, she was in L.A. Story with Steve Martin. The next year, she was in Honeymoon in Vegas with Nicolas Cage. In 1994, Parker was in Ed Wood, a well-known movie by Tim Burton.
Sarah Jessica Parker had already been in a number of films before she got the role of a lifetime.
The first episode of Sex and the City came out in 1998, and Parker played Carrie Bradshaw in it. The show, which is set in New York City and is about four friends, didn’t take long to become a fan favourite.
Sex and the City ran from 1993 to 2004, with 98 episodes. It made Sarah Jessica Parker a huge star. She almost didn’t take the chance to be on the show, though.
“‘Darren Star reached out to me,'” she remembered her contact telling her. “‘He wrote this pilot, ‘Sex and the City,’ and he told me he wrote it with you in mind. He said he was thinking about you when he wrote it. It’s on its way to you. It’s been read. I think it is great. You should talk to him.
put out her own line of clothes.
“‘Really?’ I asked. “I feel like I have everything under control now. I can do a play, then a movie, then a play, then a movie,” she said. There is a lot of room for change. How could it get any better? Do I really want to make another TV show when I might be held hostage by a long-term contract?'”
“I met with Darren, and I had a few concerns. I didn’t want to do nudity or language issues, for example, but my agent Kevin kept telling me, “This is different. This is something you’ve never done before. No one has ever played this part before. “Do that.”
Parker did the show because Darren Star persuaded her to. This was a big step in her career. Later, she was in the movie Sex and the City. In 2021, the stars of the show got back together for the miniseries And Just Like That…
In the movie “Sex and the City,” Carrie, played by Sarah Jessica Parker, had a great sense of style. The actress would also work in fashion, and even though Sarah made a lot of money from acting, it was her partnerships that took her to the next level.
Parker made perfumes, did ads for Gap, worked with Garnier to make cosmetics and made a clothes line. The Daily Mail said that she got about $4.6 million for her line of clothes for the US store Steve & Barry.
Family and wealth of Sarah Jessica Parker
But even though Sarah Jessica Parker is very rich, she made sure that all of the clothes she created for the clothing chain cost less than $15.
Celebrity Net Worth says that she is worth about $200 million.
“I want to make sure you understand what I’m going to say. Compared to the rest of the world, I make a lot of money. “But I know that almost everyone who works in network TV works much less than I do and makes much more,” Sarah Jessica Parker told Oprah in 2004. “I own the show, so if it sells, I’ll get something out of it. But I’ll never think I’m rich because I went without money for so long.
“I’ve been responsible for my family’s money for so long that it’s not enough for me to have money for myself. And it’s not about being wealthy. It’s about how much my mum pays for her house. “And my dad is going to lose his job on Monday,” she said.
Sarah Jessica Parker is nothing like the character Carrie she played in the movie “Sex and the City.” She got married to the star Matthew Broderick in 1997. James Wilkie Broderick was born in 2002, and Tabitha Hodge Broderick and Marion Loretta Elwell Broderick were born as twins in 2009.
In New York City, the Parker family lives.
“My husband is wonderful. Here’s the honeymoon part: I still think he’s the funniest, wittiest, smartest man I’ve ever met. Sarah Jessica Parker told Oprah, “He’s still the person who makes me laugh the hardest, and I still want him to laugh at me.”
Sarah Jessica Parker no makeup shot
“I’ve told him a few times, ‘I’m not getting any big laughs from you today.’ Because he is so smart, his laughter means something. He comes from the world of Philip Roth and other great writers, which my mum thought was really cool. His parents were a big part of the group of smart, creative people. I worry about him and think a lot about his job. This guy has four films coming out, and at the time of the talk, he was about to go back to Broadway to save a show called “The Producers.” I think that’s something people should know about. Matthew does things that few people do.”
Over the years, Sarah Jessica Parker’s acting has gotten a lot of praise. Also, her looks, especially her skin and how it shines, have been talked about a lot on social media. The 56-year-old actor has talked about how to get the same glow in several interviews, including this one in Vogue.
But whether she wears makeup or not, she has always been a beauty model.
“To be honest, I haven’t given [my view of beauty] much thought,” she told Vogue. “I’ve never said I don’t care about how I look, because that would be a lie, but I think that as time goes on, you buy the things you like and learn how to put on your makeup in a way that makes you feel like yourself.
“To be honest, I haven’t given [my view of beauty] much thought,” she told Vogue. “I’ve never said I don’t care about how I look, because that would be a lie, but I think that as time goes on, you buy the things you like and learn how to put on your makeup in a way that makes you feel like yourself.
Parker has been seen going around New York without makeup more than once over the years, and she does look great.
Paulina Porizkova, who used to be a supermodel, also liked how the actor showed her “silver roots.”
“I’ve been seeing pictures of Sarah Jessica Parker in the media, and every time I think, ‘Oh, thank you!’ Porizkova wrote on Instagram, “Someone my age who looks like me,” and shared a picture of herself and Parker. “I see my wrinkles, sags, and grey roots in the mirror, and I love it. Representation!”
