Parker Posey

<p>Parker Christian Posey was born on November 8, 1968, in Baltimore, Maryland, and raised in Louisiana and Mississippi. Studying drama at the State University of New York at Purchase, Posey made her breakthrough in Richard Linklater's 1993 coming-of-age cult masterpiece <em>Dazed and Confused</em> as the ruthless high school senior Darla Marks.</p><p>Throughout the 1990s, Posey became the undisputed muse of independent film, starring in over thirty indie features in a single decade. In 1995, she starred in <em>Party Girl</em>—historic as the first feature film ever streamed on the internet. In 1997, her chilling, comedic tour-de-force as Jackie-O in <em>The House of Yes</em> earned her a Special Recognition Award at the Sundance Film Festival, prompting Time magazine to crown her the <strong>'Queen of the Indies'</strong>.</p><p>Posey's extraordinary improvisational genius flourished in Christopher Guest's ensemble comedies, including <em>Waiting for Guffman</em> (1996), <em>Best in Show</em> (2000), and <em>A Mighty Wind</em> (2003). Her mainstream presence expanded with Nora Ephron's <em>You've Got Mail</em> (1998), <em>Superman Returns</em> (2006), and her Emmy-worthy turn as the sociopathic Dr. Smith in Netflix's <em>Lost in Space</em> (2018–2021). In 2018, she published her whimsical memoir <em>You're on an Airplane: A Self-Mythologizing Memoir</em>.</p>