In-Conversation with Sarah Jessica Parker
Sarah Jessica Parker is an award-winning actor, producer and businesswoman who has garnered four Golden Globe Awards, three Screen Actors Guild Awards, and two Emmy Awards.
Parker stars as Carrie Bradshaw in the HBO’s television series And Just Like That opposite Cynthia Nixon and Kristin Davis. The series is currently in production for the highly anticipated third season. Created by Darren Star, the show is a revival of the critically acclaimed television series Sex and the City (1998-2004) where Parker starred in and served as an executive producer.
Parker starred opposite her husband Matthew Broderick in the revival of Neil Simon‘s comedy play, Plaza Suite directed by Tony Award winner John Benjamin Hickey. Plaza Suite is the third-highest grossing play revival in Broadway history. The play made its West End debut this past winter at the Savoy Theatre in London, where Parker’s performance earned her a nomination for Best Actress at the 2024 Olivier Awards.
Alongside Bette Midler and Kathy Najimy, Parker can be seen in the American fantasy comedy film Hocus Pocus 2, directed by Anne Fletcher and written by Jen D'Angelo. The film, produced by Walt Disney Pictures, is a sequel to the 1993 film Hocus Pocus, in which Parker captivated audiences with her witty and peculiar performance as Sarah Sanderson, sister to Winifred and Mary Sanderson, three witches living in 17th-century Salem.
Parker reprised her role as Carrie Bradshaw and served as a producer for the screen adaptation of the hit series with the theatrical release of Sex and the City and Sex and the City 2. Her television credits include Equal Justice and Square Pegs. Past film credits include: Extreme Measures, If Lucy Fell, Til There Was You, L.A. Story, I Don't Know How She Does It, Smart People, Failure to Launch, The Family Stone, State and Main, Mars Attacks!, Ed Wood, The First Wives Club, Miami Rhapsody, Honeymoon in Vegas, and Footloose.
Parker launched award-winning production company Pretty Matches Productions, which develops film and television projects across a wide variety of genres under a first-look deal with HBO. Pretty Matches produces scripted and unscripted television as well as narrative and documentary feature films such as HBO’s Divorce which Parker starred in for three seasons and was nominated for a Golden Globe for her performance and Here and Now which premiered at the 2018 Tribeca Film Festival. Parker produced the behind-the-scenes feature And Just Like That…The Documentary for HBO Max as well as Bravo’s Work of Art: The Next Great Artist which sold into multiple territories internationally, the award-winning documentary Pretty Old, and AOL’s City Ballet.
Parker has worked in the theatre, on and off Broadway, since 1976 when she debuted on Broadway in The Innocents directed by Harold Pinter. Other Broadway credits include: the title role in Annie, How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying, and Once Upon a Mattress. Off-Broadway credits include: the original production of To Gillian on Her 37th Birthday and The Commons of Pensacola.
Parker released her signature fragrance, Lovely, in 2005. Over ten years later, it is currently a top selling global brand.
In 2014, Parker launched her namesake label, SJP, which is carried by Amazon Fashion, Bloomingdales, Neiman Marcus online, Saks.com, and Zappos Luxury, as well as various other boutiques and international retailers. Parker designed this collection of shoes, handbags and accessories in association with George Malkemus III. SJP now has five permanent stand-alone stores worldwide, as well as a recently launched e-commerce website.
In September 2019, Parker partnered with New Zealand-based Invivo & Co. to launch ‘Invivo X, SJP,’ a collection of innovative wines that bring people together. The first vintage, Invivo X, SJP Sauvignon Blanc was judged to be the best alcohol launch worldwide at the 2020 ‘Drinks Business Awards.’ In 2020 Parker launched Invivo X, SJP Rosé, a premium rosé from the South of France. The collection is now available in over 40 states and major retailers. The Sauvignon Blanc received Gold and the Rosé received Double Gold at the 2022 New York Wine and Spirits Show.
In June 2023, Parker launched SJP Lit, her own imprint in partnership with independent publisher Zando, where she publishes thought-provoking, big-hearted stories inclusive of international and underrepresented voices. Recent titles include They Dream in Gold by Mai Sennaar, Alina Grabowski’s Women and Children First, Elysha Chang’s A Quitter’s Paradise, and Coleman Hill written by Kim Coleman Foote.
Parker currently serves as a Vice-Chairman of the Board of Directors for the New York City Ballet. In November 2009, the Obama administration elected her to be a member of the President's Committee on the Arts and the Humanities. Parker recently became a member of The Partnership for New York City, a 501(c) organization dedicated to building partnerships between businesses and government to strengthen New York City
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TO KILL A MONGOLIAN HORSE
Director: Xiaoxuan Jiang
Saina’s father never taught him to ride: he simply put him on the back of a horse, a Mongolian herdsman’s natural habitat. Saina now earns his living performing spectacular tricks in equestrian shows for tourists, trying to make enough money to cover his father’s gambling debts as well as support his little son. His true vocation, however, is caring for his sheep and horses on the grasslands that stretch as far as the eye can see - a way of life under threat from climate change, encroaching poverty and profiteering mining companies. A moving, superbly shot portrait of a man clinging to the things that make that life worthwhile: the endless sky, the silence, his herdsman’s heritage and his beloved horses.
SABA
Director: Maksud Hossain
Saba, 25, lives in Dhaka with her demanding mother Shirin, a paraplegic whose frustrations and rage often find a target in the daughter who cares for her. When Shirin’s worsening condition requires surgery it falls to Saba to find the money to pay for it. Securing a job at a seedy Shisha bar, Saba befriends the manager Ankur and, for the first time, pictures what a life of her own could look like. Maksud Hossain’s debut feature is a close-up look at a complicated bond between mother and daughter that lurches between love and guilt, co-dependence and the longing for autonomy - but it is also a social drama, detailing the hardships that underlay the riots in Bangladesh earlier this year.
SAIFY
Director: Wael Abu Mansour
At 40 years old, Saify Muhammed is a washed-up confidence trickster who owes money to everyone, including his ex-wife. Now he is trying his hand at blackmail. The year is 2000; Saify has a dilapidated music shop selling cassette tapes, including recordings of banned Islamic sermons he mistakenly thinks will turn an illicit profit. His sermon supplier is Al-Mahdi, shady religious advisor to the local bigwig Sheikh Asaad Aman, who has a name as a philanthropist. When Saify finds one tape containing a scandalous recording of the influential Sheikh Asaad, he thinks he’s finally in the money.
TASTE THE REVOLUTION
Director: Daniel Klein
For nearly 25 years one of Oscar winner's Mahershala Ali's earliest, craziest and most brilliant performances has been hiding in a vault. Director Daniel Klein shot a film in the year 2000 about a group of revolutionaries putting on a world summit to counter political apathy and encourage America to stand up to capitalism but then world events got in the way and the film vanished. Now, after a call from Ali, who plays a revolutionary leader, the director has gone back over the footage and reimagined the film as a mockumentary about a documentary film crew trying to capture an event that they hope will be a modern-day Woodstock, but turns out to be more Fyre Festival.
