Parker Posey

The film was also successful at the 33rd Saturn Awards.

Posey, a few fellow cast members, and the visual effects department were all nominated.

Later the same year, she played the title character in Fay Grim, the sequel to Henry Fool, and appeared in For Your Consideration.

Parker Christian Posey (born November 8, 1968) is an American actress.

Posey was born November 8, 1968, in Baltimore, Maryland, to Lynda (née Patton), a chef, and Chris Posey, owner of a car dealership.

She has a twin brother, Christopher.

After Posey's birth, her family lived in Monroe, Louisiana, for 11 years.

They later moved to Laurel, Mississippi, where her mother worked as a chef and culinary instructor for the Viking Range Corporation in Greenwood and her father operated a car dealership.

Posey was raised Catholic.

Posey attended the State University of New York at Purchase, where she studied drama.

Posey got her first break in television with the role of Tess Shelby on the daytime soap opera As the World Turns.

She was labeled "Queen of the Indies" for starring in a succession of independent productions throughout the 1990s, 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).

Although Posey began to appear in more mainstream titles starting in the late 1990s, she continues to work in art house features such as Fay Grim (2006), Columbus (2017), and Beau Is Afraid (2023).

Throughout the late 1990s, Posey co-starred in 32 independent films and was nicknamed "Queen of the Indies".

These films include Basquiat, Clockwatchers, The Daytrippers, Party Girl and The House of Yes.

In particular, she received positive reviews for The House of Yes, for her role as a delusional woman in love with her own brother.

Posey's first major role in a feature film was in Dazed and Confused (1993).

The film received favorable reviews from critics and has been identified as a cult classic.

In 1994, she appeared in Hal Hartley's short film Opera No. 1.

She frequently works with Christopher Guest and has appeared in several of his mockumentaries, such as Waiting for Guffman (1996), Best in Show (2000), A Mighty Wind (2003), and For Your Consideration (2006).

She has co-starred in many of Christopher Guest's films, including five of his mock documentaries, the first being Waiting for Guffman in 1996.

Her more mainstream credits include You've Got Mail (1998), Scream 3 (2000), Josie and the Pussycats (2001), Superman Returns (2006), and Café Society (2016).

In 1998, Posey appeared in Hartley's film Henry Fool, and the big-budget studio film You've Got Mail.

In 2000, she starred in Guest's third mock documentary Best in Show and in the big-budget horror film Scream 3.

Critical reaction to Posey's performance in the latter film was highly positive and earned her an MTV Movie Award nomination.

The next year she starred in Josie and the Pussycats.

From 2001 to 2002, she appeared in a supporting role in the popular NBC sitcom Will & Grace.

In 2003, she starred in Guest's A Mighty Wind.

The next year she appeared in Sisters of Mercy, Laws of Attraction, and Blade: Trinity.

Posey then co-starred in the 2005 film Adam & Steve.

In 2006, Posey appeared in Superman Returns as Kitty Kowalski, Lex Luthor's ditzy sidekick, a character based on Eve Teschmacher from the 1978 film Superman.

Posey was the only actress considered for the role.

Superman Returns was a box-office success.

In 2007, Posey was cast in the lead role in the television series The Return of Jezebel James.

The show was originally given a 13-episode order, but the show was cut to seven episodes in anticipation of a pending scriptwriters’ strike.

It premiered on the Fox television network in 2008 as a mid-season replacement.

In an interview in January 2012, Parker said that the unofficial title has sometimes been a hindrance:

"I'm trying to work in studio movies, but they won't hire me. I get feedback from my agent saying, "She's too much of an indie queen." And then on the other side, my name doesn't get the financing to do a movie over $1 million. And I'm called "the indie queen". So it's really a challenging path because I know so much about the indie side of the business. Because I grew up in it ... But it's different times. And this stuff gets projected onto me. People are like, "You're here [at the Sundance film festival] every year, you do so many indie movies." And I'm like, "No, I did Broken English five years ago.""

Outside film, Posey played Dr. Smith on Netflix's Lost in Space (2018–2021) and appeared as Freda Black in the HBO Max miniseries The Staircase (2022).

She is the recipient of a Golden Globe Award nomination, a Satellite Award nomination, and two Independent Spirit Award nominations.