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Andrea Parker

Parker began ballet training at age 6 and at age 15 she joined a professional dance company. She quit her career in ballet after three years of touring and trained to become an actor while working as a bartender. Her first documented film role was at age 19 in the movie Rented Lips in which she played a dancer/nurse. Image File history File links Aparker. ... Image File history File links Aparker. ...

Andrea Parker got her break in television playing a nurse on the award-winning Seinfeld episode "The Contest" in 1992. After that first speaking role, she had several other guest-starring roles in television series and movies, most notably a recurring role in ER as Linda Farrell, the love-interest of Dr. Doug Ross, the character played by George Clooney and as Lieutenant Caitlin Pike in JAG. She also did several pilots before she gained a cult-following for her role as Miss Parker on the NBC television series The Pretender. Seinfeld was an American television sitcom set in New York City that ran from July 5, 1989, to May 14, 1998. ... ER is a long-running serial drama created by novelist Michael Crichton and set primarily in the emergency room of Cook County Hospital in Chicago, Illinois. ... Clooney on the set of Oceans Twelve, Winnetka, Illinois, April 2004 George Timothy Clooney (born May 6, 1961) is an Academy Award-winning American actor, director and screenwriter, known for his former role in the long-running television drama ER (1994–99) and his rise as an A-List... For other uses, see JAG (disambiguation). ... The Pretender is a television series that originally ran on NBC for four seasons between 1996 and 2000. ...

Parker says she felt compelled to play the role of the complex, cynical, powerful and intimidating yet somewhat tortured Ice Queen because her name was "all over the script." Miss Parker is a character many viewers love and others love to hate. Parker also played the minor role of Catherine Parker, Miss Parker's mother in The Pretender, a role that is in stark contrast to the character Miss Parker.

After The Pretender was cancelled by NBC in 2000, Parker did another guest spot on JAG before signing on to reprise her role as Miss Parker in the telemovies for The Pretender, which aired on Turner Network Television in 2001. She then returned to series television in 2002 and currently stars in the ABC network comedy Less Than Perfect, playing Lydia Weston. She has made several guest appearances on television talk shows and celebrity events such as the various celebrity poker tournaments. For other uses, see JAG (disambiguation). ... Turner Network Television, usually referred to as TNT, is a cable TV network created by media mogul Ted Turner and launched with a showing of his favorite film, Gone with the Wind, on October 3, 1988. ... 2001: A Space Odyssey. ... For the Cusco album, see 2002 (album). ... Look up ABC in Wiktionary, the free dictionary Abbreviation ABC is an abbreviation with many meanings: The Latin alphabet, of which A, B, and C are the first three letters. ... Less Than Perfect is an American sitcom television program about a young, charming but odd-girl-out office worker (played by Sara Rue) that began airing on ABC on October 1, 2002. ... This article is about the card game. ...

Ms. Parker is noted for her support of various charities such as the National Hospice Palliative Care Organization, Glenn Siegel's My Good Friend charity organization, the Michael J. Fox Foundation for Parkinson's Research and Project Angel Food. Parker is also trained as a stunt-driver and can handle a firearm.

Awards

Wins

• Best Supporting Actress in a Comedy - WIN (Women's Image Network) Awards 2005 (Less Than Perfect)
• Best Actress in a Comedy - Primetime TV Awards 2003 (Less Than Perfect)

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• Best Performance by an Actress in a Television Series (Drama) - Golden Satellite Award 1999 (The Pretender)

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Selected filmography

• Seinfeld (1992)
• Dave's World (1993)
• The Adventures of Brisco County Jr. (1993)
• Herman's Head (1993)
• Victim of Love: The Shannon Mohr Story (1993) (TV)
• Brush with Death (1994)
• XXX's & OOO's (1994) (TV)
• Ellen (1994)
• Coach (1994, 1996)
• Dream On (1995)
• Can't Hurry Love (1996)
• Murder, She Wrote (1996)
• JAG (1995-1996, 2001)
• Ed McBain's 87th Precinct: Ice (1996) (TV)
• The Pretender (1996-2000)
• Delicate Instruments (2000)
• The Pretender 2001 (2001)
• The Pretender: Island of the Haunted (2001)
• First Monday (2002)
• Less Than Perfect (2002–present)

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External links

• Andrea Parker Portal
• Andrea Parker Image Database, fansite & forum
• Andrea Parker Fansite
• Andrea Parker unofficial online fanclub
• Andrea Parker Review

Sources

• IMDb (2005) IMDb page Retrieved April 18, 2005
• Bravo Channel (2005) Celebrity Poker Showdown Profile Retrieved April 18, 2005
• Andrea Parker Zone NBC Peacock Buzz Article Retrieved May 23, 2005
• Andrea Parker Fan Club Andrea Parker unofficial online fanclub
• About.com Entertainment Primetime TV Awards 2003 Page