Sarah Jessica Parker Net Worth

Sarah Jessica Parker is an American actress, producer, designer, and businesswoman born on March 25, 1965, in Nelsonville, Ohio. As a young girl, she was interested in singing and dancing and was cast in the Broadway play, The Innocents. Her parents moved her to the NYC area to help her hone her craft. Sarah Jessica also got the role of Annie in the Broadway musical of the same name in 1977. She played the role of Annie for a year.

Although many know her from Sex and the City, Sarah Jessica Parker’s most famous television role was in Square Pegs. Square Pegs was her big break, with her having a starring role at age 17. The series only lasted a year, but led to movie roles in Footloose, Girls Just Want to Have Fun, Honeymoon in Vegas, and Hocus Pocus.

While Sarah Jessica Parker’s net worth grew with each new role, most of her films were not blockbusters. In 1998, she landed the role of a lifetime – as Carrie Bradshaw in Sex and the City. The show followed four single women in NYC and also starred Cynthia Nixon, Kristin Davis, and Kim Cattrall. The show was a huge success, with the Guardian calling the Carrie Bradshaw character the “icon of the decade.” For her role in Sex and the City, Parker would win two Emmy Awards, three Screen Actors Guild awards, and four Golden Globes. The series would come to an end in 2004 after six seasons.

Sarah Jessica continued to star in films like Failure to Launch, Smart People, I Don’t Know How She Does It, and New Year’s Eve. She appeared in the HBO drama Divorce with Thomas Haden Church playing her ex-husband. The show ran for three seasons, ending in 2019. She and her husband Matthew Broderick appeared in Neil Simon’s Plaza Suite at a Boston theater for two weeks in February 2020 before COVID-19 shut production down.

In December 2021, Sarah Jessica Parker returned to her most famous role as Carrie Bradshaw in And Just Like That…, a reboot of Sex and the City showing on HBO Max. Cynthia Nixon and Kristin Davis signed on to return as their characters, but Kim Cattrall felt the series had run its course and was having disagreements with Parker online. The show managed to tastefully include the Samantha Jones character through texts. It was renewed for a second season in March 2022.

Sarah Jessica Parker and the Fashion Industry

Sarah Jessica Parker has been a life-long fashionista. She was well-known for her outfits in Sex and the City and launched her fashion line, Bitten, in conjunction with Steve & Barry’s. Sarah Jessica Parker released her Lovely perfume line in 2005, and in 2009, she added Dawn, Endless, and Twilight to the Lovely Collection. In 2014, her SJP Collection of footwear was released at Nordstrom. She also launched a bridal collection in 2018.

What is Sarah Jessica Parker’s Net Worth?

For 2022, Parade magazine estimated Sarah Jessica Parker’s net worth to be $150 million, with the bulk of that net worth coming from the Sex and the City series, movies, and its sequel And Just Like That… She is also an established movie star, having appeared in flicks such as The First Wives Club,  Ed Wood, Mars Attacks!,The Family Stone, Escape from Planet Earth, and two Sex and the City films.

And Just Like That… has been renewed for a second season, and Sarah Jessica Parker’s net worth will surely increase. It is believed she made a cool $1 million per episode in the first season ($10 million total).

Who is Sarah Jessica Parker?

Sarah Jessica Parker is one of eight children from her mother’s first and second marriages. Her father and mother divorced when Sarah Jessica was three and a half years old. Her mother remarried, giving Sarah Jessica a stepfather and new stepsiblings. Parker’s brothers, Timothy Britten and Pippin, are also actors.

With such a big family, Parker often went without birthday and Christmas presents. At times, the family even experienced having the electricity shut off. But, she claims she had everything she needed and lived a rich, full life through free activities at free public institutions.

Sarah Jessica Parker attended many schools for training, including the School of American Ballet, the School for Creative and Performing Arts in Cincinnati, the New York Professional Children’s School, Dwight Morrow High School, and Hollywood High School in Los Angeles.

Sarah Jessica Parker’s Personal Life

Sarah Jessica dated fellow actor Robert Downey, Jr. for eight years but separated before marrying in large part due to Downey’s drug addiction. She briefly dated John F. Kennedy, Jr. in the early 90s, then she met her future husband, Matthew Broderick, through an introduction from her brother. The couple married on May 19, 1997, in a synagogue in the lower East Side of Manhattan. Their first child, James, was born in 2002, and twin daughters, Mario and Tabitha, were born in 2009.

Fun Facts About Sarah Jessica Parker

• Parker identifies with her father’s religion, Judaism, but has no religious training.
• In an appearance on Who Do You Think You Are? Sarah Jessica Parker learned she had ancestors involved in the Salem witch trials.
• Parker starred in two films with Diane Keaton – First Wives Club and The Family Stone.
• Sarah Jessica Parker changed outfits 14 times while hosting the 2000 MTV Movie Awards.
• Her appearance in the Fox hit show, Glee, was her first return to television after Sex and the City ended.
• Pretty Matches, Sarah Jessica Parker’s production company, has produced content for HBO and other television channels.

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