Parker began ballet how to videos at age Sixer & at age Xv she joined the sales person dance company. She quit her career inside ballet fallowing terzetto years of touring & trained to turn into an actor when working as a barman. Her number 1 documented film role was at age Nineteen in the picture Rented Lips in which she played a dancer/nurse.

Andrethe Parker had her break around television swimming a nurse on the award-winning Seinfeld episode "The Contest" within 1992. Fallowing that 1st speaking role, she experienced many more guest-starring roles witharound television series & film, virtually all notably the revenant role in ER as Linda Farrell, the love-interest of Dr. Doug Ross, a character played by George Clooney and as Lieutenant Caitlaround Pike in JAG. She besides did many pilots prior to she gained the cult-when punishment for her role as Miss Parker on the NBC television series The Pretender.

Parker says she felt compelled to play a role of the complex, misanthropic, right & daunting eventually somewhat tortured Ice Queen because her title was "all over the script." Miss Parker occurs as character numbers of viewers love & others love to hatred. Parker too played a bit part of Catherine Parker, Miss Parker's mother in The Pretender, the role that is around stark counterpoint to the character Miss Parker.

Fallowing A Pretender was cancelled by NBC around 2000, Parker did an additional guest spot in JAG before signing in to reprise her role when Miss Parker in the telemovies for The Pretender, which aired in Turner Network Television in 2001. She so returned to series television within 2002 and currently stars in the ABC network comedy Less Than Perfect, playing Lydia Weston. She has processed many guest appearances in television chat show & celebrity cases like a various celebrity poker tournaments.

Ms. Parker is noted for her trend lines of various charities like a National Hospice Palliative Care Organization, Glenn Siegel's a Proficient Friend charity organization, the Michael J. Mongrel Foundation for Parkinson's Search & Task Angel Food. Parker is besides trained as the stunt-driver & may cover a small-arm.

Awards

Wins Best Supporting Actress inside the Comedy - WIN (Women's Image Network) Awards 2005 (Less Than Perfect) Best Actress inside the Comedy - Primetime TV Awards 2003 (Less Than Perfect)

Nominations Best Performance by an Actress inside the Television Series (Drama) - Golden Satellite Award 1999 (The Pretender)

Selected filmography
Seinfeld (1992) ''Dave's World (1993) The Adventures of Brisco County Jr. (1993) Herman's Head (1993) Victim of Love: The Shannon Mohr Story (1993) (TV) Brush with Death (1994) XXX's & OOO's (1994) (TV) Ellen (1994) Coach (1994, 1996) Dream On (1995) Can't Hurry Love (1996) Murder, She Wrote (1996) JAG (1995-1996, 2001) Ed McBain's 87th Precinct: Ice (1996) (TV) The Pretender (1996-2000) Delicate Instruments (2000) The Pretender 2001 (2001) The Pretender: Island of the Haunted (2001) First Monday (2002) Less Than Perfect'' (2002–present)