Born in Baltimore, Md November 1968, Parker
Christian Posey remained here until the age of 12 where she moved to Laurel, Mississippi.
Parker Posey attended school at the prestigious North Carolina School for the Arts. She
then majored in acting at SUNY Purchase in New York. While at SUNY she roomed with Sherry
Stringfield of TV's "ER". Near the end of her senior year at Purchase, Parker
Posey left the program a mere 3 weeks before graduation to do the role of Tess on the CBS
daytime drama "As The World Turns," a recurring part which lasted for over a
year and half. Despite the fact that the Dean of the department constantly had Parker on
"probation" throughout the four years she was there, the department set up an
audition for Parker and three other actresses from the Senior Company. In the end Parker
got the part and, as a result, made the Dean look like a real ass. She has also appeared
in the HBO telefilm "First Love, Fatal Love," and the recent American Playhouse
production, "Armisted Maupin's Tales Of The City." She has had featured roles in Joey Breaker and The Coneheads, and was seen as Darla, the tyrannical high school senior, in Richard Linklater's widely acclaimed Dazed And Confused. Posey appeared in Tracey Ullman's HBO special "Tracey Ullman Takes New York" and can be seen in Hal Hartley's films Amateur and Flirt. She was in Rory Kelly's Sleep With Me, in an outrageuosly funny scene with Rene Zellwenger. She can also be seen in Gregg Araki's film, Doom Generation, and has a part in Nora Ephron's Mixed Nuts, which stars Steve Martin. In addition she's in Noel Baumbach's directorial debut, Kicking And Screaming and Peter Cohn's comedy Drunks. She had a feature role in her second Richard Linklater movie SubUrbia.
Parker Posey's upcoming movies are The House of Yes based on a play by Wendy MacLeod and adapted and directed by Mark Waters. The Daytrippers produced by Steven Soderberg and directed by Greg Mottola. Parker Posey plays opposite Anne Meara in a comedy about a dysfunctional family on a daytrip, hence, the movie name. Finally in Chris Guest's Waiting for Guffman a comedy mockumentary she has major role.
Parker Posey just completed writing her first screenplay Dumb In Love with Rory Kelly also co-written by Joey Lauren Adams.