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"Smart," "dark" and "sexy" -- these words describe the sorts of characters Parker Posey...
Nov 15, 2012 · When Parker Posey was crowned "queen of the indies" in the mid-to-late '90s, the title referred to her Sundance-dominating ubiquity. But it could just as well have applied to the Parker Posey...
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Posey, who has a twin brother, was born two months premature in 1968 in Baltimore, to a chef mother and car-dealer father. She was named after a family friend of her mom, who wanted to give her little girl "a strong name like Parker." Despite her unusual last name, it's totally real: "My mother says she thought the name Posey was silly, and it real...
Aside from her villainous turn in ill-received superhero movie "Blade: Trinity" (2004), Posey has mostly stuck to low-budget movies and TV. But she apparently was in the running for high-profile projects such as "Girl, Interrupted" (1999) with Angelina Jolie, which she says she passed on because, "Who cares about a bunch of depressed white girls in...
Turns out, shooting Christopher Guest's largely improvised 1997 mockumentary was just as fun as you'd imagine. Playing amateur actors with theatrical pipe dreams in a tiny Midwestern town, Catherine O'Hara and Fred Willard had the idea for their characters to audition with a coffee commercial-inspired rendition of "Midnight at the Oasis," while Pos...
Posey reunited with Guest and much of the "Guffman" cast for dog-show mockumentary "Best in Show" (2000), which featured similar amounts of off-the-wall improvisation. Posey co-starred with Michael Hitchcock as a lawyer couple in therapy after traumatizing their prized Weimaraner, Beatrice, when the dog caught them having sex. Guest suggested both ...
Two chapters are dedicated to Posey's working experiences with Louis CK and Woody Allen, although neither passage lingers on the sexual misconduct allegations lodged against both men. Posey describes at length her close friendship with CK that led to her being cast in his FX comedy "Louie," playing a cancer-stricken bookstore clerk in the show's th...
- Entertainment Reporter
A case-study of stardom in the independent realm will focus on Parker Posey, the actress Time magazine designated ‘queen of the indies,’ referring to her ubiquitous presence in low-budget independent features (Corliss and Ressner 1997: 82–3).
Mar 17, 2016 · Dubbed queen of the indies, Parker Posey has a string of memorable films to her name, including Christopher Guest’s Best in Show and Richard Linklater’s Dazed and Confused. A film season, In...
In an interview in January 2012, Parker said that the unofficial title has sometimes been a hindrance: I'm trying to work in studio movies, but they won't hire me. I get feedback from my agent saying, "She's too much of an indie queen."
