Sarah Jessica Parker

Sex and the City, a frank television show about urban modern women and sex, was a ground-breaking hit from the moment it premiered on HBO four years ago. The key to its success is its smart and sexy star, Sarah Jessica Parker. Marc Shapiro's riveting biography charts Parker's success, from her poverty-stricken roots in Nelsonville, Ohio to overnight stardom on Broadway in Annie. Sarah Jessica Parker includes insight into Parker's: Hollywood success in the television series Square Pegs and breakout movie role in Footloose; tragic romance with drug addict Robert Downey Jr. and subsequent high-profile relationships with John F. Kennedy Jr. and Nicholas Cage; marriage with the man of her dreams, Matthew Broderick; why she refuses to appear nude in movies and photo shoots. The book also charts her rise as an accomplished actress-comedian in such films as Honeymoon in Vegas, Miami Rhapsody, If Lucy Fell, Dudley Do Right, and State and Main and in the plays Sylvia and Once Upon a Mattress.