Sarah Jessica Parker

She has won four Golden Globe Awards, three Screen Actors Guild Awards, and two Emmy Awards. 

Parker next stars in the highly anticipated third season of HBO’s television series And Just Like That. The show is a revival of the critically acclaimed television series Sex and the City (1998-2004) in which Parker starred and served as an executive producer. Film credits include: L.A. Story, The Family Stone, State and Main, Mars Attacks!, Ed Wood, The First Wives Club, Miami Rhapsody, Honeymoon in Vegas, and Footloose. 

Parker’s award-winning production company, Pretty Matches Productions, develops film and television projects across a wide variety of genres. Among them was HBO’s Divorce, in which Parker starred for three seasons and for which she was nominated for a Golden Globe. Parker has worked in the theatre since 1976, when she debuted on Broadway in The Innocents, directed by Harold Pinter. She recently 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. Parker’s performance earned her a nomination for Best Actress at the 2024 Olivier Awards. 

In June 2023, Parker launched SJP Lit, her own literary imprint in partnership with independent publisher Zando, publishing 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.  

Prior to this, Parker served as Editorial Director of the literary imprint SJP for Hogarth, publishing the New York Times bestseller A Place For Us by Fatima Farheen Mirza, winner of the Desmond Elliott Prize; Golden Child by Claire Adam; and Dawn, the critically acclaimed story collection by the jailed Turkish politician and human rights lawyer Selahattin Demirtas. Parker has additionally served as Honorary Chair of the American Library Association’s online reading resource platform Central Book Club, and as a board member of the nonprofit organisation United for Libraries. 

Parker served as a member of the President’s Committee on the Arts and the Humanities during the Obama administration. She currently serves as a Vice-Chairman of the Board of Directors for the New York City Ballet and is an unstinting champion of contemporary literature.  

She is a judge for the Booker Prize 2025.