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Mary-Louise Parker (born August 2, 1964) is an American actress, known for her current lead role on Showtime's television series Weeds portraying Nancy Botwin, for which she has received several nominations and the Golden Globe Award for Best Actress in 2006. Parker has appeared in films and series such as RED, Fried Green Tomatoes, Boys on the Side, The West Wing, and Angels in America, for which she received a Golden Globe and an Emmy Award for Best Supporting Actress. Parker is also the recipient of the 2001 Tony Award for Best Actress for the Broadway play Proof.
Parker was born in Fort Jackson, South Carolina. Her mother, Caroline Louise (née Morell), was of part Swedish descent, and her father, John Morgan Parker, was a judge who served in the U.S. Army. Because of her father's career, Parker spent parts of her childhood in Tennessee and Texas, as well as in Thailand, Germany, and France. Parker majored in drama at the North Carolina School of the Arts.
Parker got her start in a bit part on the soap opera Ryan's Hope. In the late 1980s, Parker moved to New York, where she got a job measuring feet at ECCO. After a few minor roles, she made her Broadway debut in a 1990 production of Craig Lucas' Prelude to a Kiss, playing the lead role of Rita. She moved with the production when it transferred from its origin Off-Broadway. She won the Clarence Derwent Award for her performance and was nominated for a Tony Award (although she did not play the role when the film was made). Parker also briefly dated her co-star Timothy Hutton during this time.
Elizabeth Ann Perkins (born November 18, 1960) is an American actress. Her film roles have included Big, The Flintstones, Miracle on 34th Street, About Last Night..., and Avalon. She is perhaps best known for her role as Celia Hodes in the Showtime series Weeds.
Perkins was born in Queens, New York City, the daughter of Jo Williams, a drug treatment counselor and concert pianist, and James Perkins, a farmer, writer, and businessman. Her paternal grandparents were Greek immigrants from Salonika who anglicized their surname from "Pisperikos" to "Perkins" when they emigrated to the United States. Perkins was raised in Colrain, Massachusetts; her parents divorced in 1963. She began working in theatre with Arena Civic Theatre, a non-profit community theatre group based out of Greenfield, Massachusetts. Perkins attended Northfield Mount Hermon School, an elite preparatory school, and then spent three years in Chicago studying acting at the Goodman School of Drama. In 1984, she made her theatrical debut on Broadway in Neil Simon's Brighton Beach Memoirs and afterward, worked in a number of ensemble companies, including The New York Shakespeare Festival and the Steppenwolf Theater.
Tonye Patano (born 1961) is an American actress. She is most known for portraying Heylia James on the American TV show Weeds.
She has appeared in television shows such as Law & Order, Sex and the City, Monk and Third Watch. Patano was in the original cast of the Broadway play 45 Seconds from Broadway by Neil Simon.
Patano is slated to star in One Life to Live as Phylicia Evans, the mother of established characters: Shaun Evans, Greg Evans and Destiny Evans.
At the age of 35, she was diagnosed with diabetes and she suffered from a stroke in 2005.
Actors: Nick Gomez (actor), Miceal Og O'Donnell (producer), Miceal Og O'Donnell (writer), Miceal Og O'Donnell (director), Miceal Og O'Donnell (actor), Clay Chamberlin (actor), Mike Ryan (editor), Brent Phillip Henry (actor), Mike Ryan (producer), Edward R. Cox (actor), Kim Collins (actor), Holly Rochelle (actress), Austin Naulty (actor), Tommy Vita (producer), Tommy Vita (actor),
Genres: Comedy, Crime, Drama,Actors: David Alan Graf (actor), Rhoda Pell (actress), Charley Rossman (actor), Bryan Felber (editor), Bryan Felber (actor), Bryan Felber (producer), Bryan Felber (director), S. Peace Nistades (composer), Robert Scott Crane (actor), Camille Carida (actress), Richard Lund (actor), Drue Delio (actor), Richard Lund (actor), Kellie Koppel (actress), Ken Lyle (actor),
Plot: 'The Buffalo Son' chronicles the adventures of Peter Apple, a teenage boy who awakes in the middle of an Arizona desert road with complete head trauma-induced amnesia. With no family, proof of birth, or social security number, the sweet, naive Peter gains relative national fame for his story and spontaneous poetry. But he is eventually adopted as a prophet and 'flawless judge of this World' by the strange beat poets and art fiends in his foster family's neighborhood. Peter slowly morphs into a cocky, careless, rockstar-like hero while becoming a target of jealousy and hatred at his high school. As his memory begins to return, Peter begins to question the roles he has been assigned in this colorful, funny and eerie take on the American dream.
Keywords: allen-ginsberg, american-dream, amnesia, army, beat-poet, conspiracy, epic, foster-home, high-school, knife