Parker Posey | |
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![]() Posey in 2018 | |
Born | Parker Christian Posey November 8, 1968 Baltimore, Maryland, U.S. |
Education | State University of New York, Purchase (BFA) |
Occupation | Actress |
Years active | 1991–present |
Parker Christian Posey (born November 8, 1968) is an American actress. She was known for her roles in independent films in the 1990s,[1] such as Dazed and Confused (1993), Party Girl, The Doom Generation, Kicking and Screaming (all 1995), The Daytrippers (1996), The House of Yes, Clockwatchers (both 1997), and Henry Fool (1998). She has received nominations for a Primetime Emmy Award and a Golden Globe Award.
Although she began to work in bigger projects during the late 1990s, Posey has continued to work in small-scale features such as Personal Velocity: Three Portraits (2002), Fay Grim (2006), Broken English (2007), and Columbus (2017). Her more mainstream credits include You've Got Mail (1998), Scream 3 (2000), Josie and the Pussycats (2001), The Sweetest Thing (2002), Blade: Trinity (2004), Superman Returns (2006), Café Society (2016), and Beau Is Afraid (2023). She frequently works with Christopher Guest and has co-starred in several of his mockumentaries: Waiting for Guffman (1996), Best in Show (2000), A Mighty Wind (2003), For Your Consideration (2006), and Mascots (2016).
On television, Posey appeared in the recurring role on BYUtv's Granite Flats (2015), co-starred on all three seasons of Netflix's Lost in Space (2018–2021), and earned praise for the HBO Max miniseries The Staircase (2022).[2][3][4] She has since starred in the third season of the HBO anthology series The White Lotus (2025).
Posey graces so many low-budget films that she has called herself "that indie tramp." An apter title would be Queen of the Indies.
Parker Posey, as is her right in every project, elevates off-hand jokes to scene-stealing extremes...
(The way Ms. Posey turns "filth" into a two-syllable word in describing Peterson's taste in porn to a Durham County jury is delicious.)
...Freda Black, played with quiet command by Parker Posey, who nails her North Carolina drawl. (Someone give Posey her own series about a progressive attorney fighting for justice in the South, please.)