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Born on August 2, 1972, in Brisbane, Queensland, Australia. Jacinda Barrett father is an airport firefighter, one of the first on the scene after a plane crash; she confess that her parents sheltered her from the harsh nature of her father’s work while she was a child. Kenmore State High School in Brisbane is her first studied in drama, but her desire to see the world led her to leave home immediately after high school.

When she was 17 years old, Jacinda headed for Europe, where she began a whirlwind career as a model for the Storm modeling agency, the same agency that represented fellow models turned actresses, Elle Macpherson and Josie Maran), basing herself out of Paris, France.

In the years that followed, Jacinda strutted her sexy stuff on the runways of the world. Much to the chagrin of men everywhere, she soon got bored of the modeling life and decided to try her hand at acting.

Jacinda’s stunning good looks led to her big break on MTV’s The Real World: London in 1995. Although it was a fun ride, it was ultimately not the type of “acting” Jacinda wanted to pursue. As a result, she decided to take some time off to devote herself to more stringent acting lessons.

Jacinda Barrett enrolled in the British Academy of Dramatic Art in Oxford, England, and her training paid off in spades. In 1997, she was cast in her first film: Campfire Tales.

Fortunately, Jacinda had a talented tongue. Her skill to drop her native Australian accent helped her land more coveted roles in the U.S., most notably in 2000’s Urban Legends: Final Cut.

But it was Jacinda’s big screen exposure (we mean that literally) in 2003’s The Human Stain — opposite Anthony Hopkins and Nicole Kidman — that thrust her into the spotlight. Her nude scene virtually assured that her star was on the rise.

As a result, Jacinda landed roles in the high-profile films Bridget Jones: The Edge of Reason, opposite Renee Zellweger and Hugh Grant, and the tribute to firefighters, Ladder 49 (both in 2004). Interestingly, Jacinda’s 5′10″ height sometimes plays against her; in Ladder 49, she had to wear flat shoes so that she wouldn’t tower over co-star Joaquin Phoenix.

Big things are happening for Jacinda Barrett, as she is set to star in 2006’s The Last Kiss, opposite Zach Braff (of Scrubs and Garden State fame). On a personal note, Jacinda has been engaged twice so far, once to actor Gabriel Macht and another time to actor Chris Hardwick.

Her name’s Mary-Louise Parker. Birth of place in Fort Jackson, South Carolina on August 2, 1964, the youngest of several children. Her father was a judge and officer in the military, and the family of “army brats” grew up on military bases around the United States. Parker’s interest in the arts began during high school, and she went on to major in acting at the North Carolina School of the Arts. Following graduation, she moved to New York City in the mid-’80s to pursue a career in theater.

Mary Parker initially found work off-Broadway, and also had a short stint on ABC’s daytime soap, Ryan’s Hope. In 1988, she made her TV movie debut in the CBS World War II drama Too Young the Hero, quickly followed by her feature film debut as an abused girlfriend in Signs of Life (1989).

After a couple of years working in off-Broadway productions, Parker debuted on Broadway in 1990 in Prelude to a Kiss, for which she won a Theatre World award and received a Tony nomination. Another production that dealt with the AIDS crisis, the feature drama Longtime Companion, in which she portrayed the token female friend of a group of gay men.

Parker received critical praise for her breakout performance in Fried Green Tomatoes in 1991, and also appeared in Grand Canyon that same year. Returning to the stage for Babylon Gardens (1991), Mary-Louise Parker played a woman driven to madness due to the birth of a deformed baby, while in the 1993 black comedy Four Dogs and a Bone.

Parker also took parts in made-for-TV movies such as A Place For Annie (1994) and the HBO biopic Sugartime (1995), in which she starred as 1950s singing sensation Phyllis McGuire. In 1996, she returned to theater for the revival of Bus Stop, where she co-starred with then boyfriend Billy Crudup, and How I Learned to Drive, for which she received the OBIE for her captivating portrayal of a child abuse victim.

In 2000, Parker starred as a grief-stricken, troubled young woman in Proof, which premiered at the Manhattan Theatre Club before moving to Broadway by year’s end. Mary-Louise won the Tony Award for Best Actress in 2001 for her performance. She joined the cast of NBC’s The West Wing that fall, playing seductive lobbyist Amy Gardner, and earned an Emmy nomination in 2002 for the role. That same year, she played wife Bonnie Hanssen in the made-for-TV movie Master Spy: The Robert Hanssen Story (2002), and was featured in Red Dragon, the prequel to The Silence of the Lambs, with Anthony Hopkins and Edward Norton.

Parker co-starred in the acclaimed HBO miniseries Angels in America (2003), along with Meryl Streep, Al Pacino and Emma Thompson. Her turn as a Mormon wife garnered her a SAG
nomination and the Golden Globe for Best Performance by an Actress in a Supporting Role in a Series, Mini-Series or Motion Picture Made for Television, in 2004.

After seven years together, Parker and Crudup split up in 2003. She was seven months pregnant at the time of the breakup, and gave birth to son William Atticus on January 7, 2004. That year she added The Best Thief in the World, Saved! and Romance & Cigarettes to her resume.