Molly Parker is a Canadian actress who portrays Maureen Robinson in Netflix's 2018 television series Lost in Space.
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Parker is perhaps best known for her starring role as “Alma Garrett” in David Milch’s acclaimed HBO series Deadwood, and for playing Jackie Sharp in House of Cards opposite Kevin Spacey and Robin Wright for Netflix. In other recent television roles, she starred in Swingtown on CBS and The Firm on NBC. Memorable characters also include Lisa Marshall on Showtime's Dexter and Rabbi Ari on HBO's Six Feet Under.
Molly made her feature film debut in Lynne Stopkewich's Kissed, for which she received a Genie Award for Best Actress. Other features include Katja von Garnier's Iron Jawed Angels opposite Hilary Swank and Anjelica Huston and Philip Kaufman's Hemingway and Gelhorn opposite Clive Owen and Nicole Kidman, both for HBO Films; John Hillcoat's The Road opposite Viggo Mortensen and Charlize Theron; Allen Coulter’s Hollywoodland opposite Adrien Brody; and Neil LaBute's The Wicker Man, opposite Nicolas Cage.
She has starred in numerous independent films, including Who Loves the Sun opposite Lukas Haas and Adam Scott, for which she won the Best Actress Award at the Beverly Hills Film Festival; Julia Dyer's The Playroom which premiered at the Tribeca Film Festival, Oliver Sherman opposite Garrett Dillahunt and Donal Logue; Bruce Macdonald's Trigger (Genie Award nomination); Gillies MacKinnon's Pure; Wayne Wang's Center of the World opposite Peter Sarsgaard for which she was nominated for an Independent Spirit Award; Istvan Szabo's Sunshine opposite Ralph Fiennes and Rachel Weisz; Keith Gordon's Waking the Dead opposite Billy Crudup and Jennifer Connelly; Menno Meyjes' Max opposite John Cusack; Michael Winterbottom's Wonderland; Wiebke von Carolsfeld's Marion Bridge for which she was the Genie Award-winner for Best Supporting Actress; Paul Gross's Men with Brooms and Bruce Sweeney's Last Wedding, for which she won a Genie Award; Jeremy Podeswa's The Five Senses opposite MaryLouise-Parker; Sturla Gunnarson's Rare Birds opposite William Hurt; her second film with Lynn Stopkewich, Suspicious River which premiered at the Venice Film Festival, and Rodrigo Garcia's Nine Lives.
She was most recently seen in the acclaimed Amazon original series Goliath, from David E. Kelly, and Ewan McGregor's directorial debut American Pastoral for Lakeshore Entertainment. Upcoming, she will be seen starring in Errol Morris’s miniseries Wormwood opposite Peter Sarsgaard for Netflix, and the independent features Small Crimes opposite Nikolaj Coster-Waldau, Josephine Decker's Movie No. 1 opposite Miranda July, and 1922 opposite Thomas Jane.
She recently wrapped her directorial debut Bird, starring Amanda Plummer.