Lara Parker

Lara Parker was born Mary Lamar Rickey in Knoxville, Tennessee on October 27, 1940. A graduate of Rhodes College and the University of Iowa with Masters Degree in the arts, she is a film and television actress best known as the witch named Angelique on the cult ABC-TV serial "Dark Shadows" which aired from 1966-1971. TV fans will recall her playing the role of "Laura Banner" in the opening sequence of the pilot of the TV series "The Incredible Hulk" (1977) and the fashion model/witch "Madelaine" in the "" episode "The Trevi Collection". Other appearances on TV include "Kung Fu", "Kojak", "Quincy M.E.", "Hawaii Five-O", "The Rockford Files"," "Highway to Heaven", the CBS daytime serial "Capitol" and the ABC "daytime serial "One Life to Live". Parker's best known movie role was in the Jack Lemmon oscar-winning drama "Save The Tiger" in 1973. Parker played a sympathetic hooker who is devastated when her client suffers a near fatal heart attack."

In 1998, Parker published a novel, "Angelique's Descent", and its sequel, "Dark Shadows: The Salem Branch", released in July 2006. She has recently reprised the role of Angelique for a new series of Dark Shadows audio dramas from Big Finish Productions and is the reader for the audiobook recording of her novel "Angelique's Descent" (also released by Big Finish Productions).

Parker is married to former actor Jimmy Hawkins ("It's A Wonderful Life"; "The Donna Reed Show", and "Petticoat Junction"), now a building contractor. The couple have a daughter, Caitlin Elizabeth Hawkins (born 1985), who is studying documentary filmmaking. Parker has two sons, Rick (a record producer) and Andy (a contractor) from her first marriageto artist Tom Parker. The Hawkinses live in a designer house atop one of the Santa Monica Mountains in Los Angeles

External links

* [http://www.laraparker.com Lara Parker Online (Official Site)]
* [http://www.darkshadowsreborn.com Original Dark Shadows Audio Dramas starring Lara Parker]