Sarah Jessica Parker
Sarah Jessica Parker attended the American Ballet School and the Professional Children’s School, and later Dwight Morrow High School. She and four siblings appeared in a revival of The Sound of Music, and Parker went on to the new 1977-81 Broadway musical Annie — first in the small role of “July,” and then succeeding Andrea McArdle and Shelley Bruce in the lead role as the plucky Depression-era orphan, for a year beginning March 6, 1979. In 1982, Parker was cast in the co-lead role of the CBS-TV sitcom Square Pegs. The show lasted only one season before being cancelled by the network, but Parker’s performance was critically well received. In the two years that followed, she was cast in four films - the most significant of those being Footloose in 1984. Also that year, she become romantically involved with actor Robert Downey Jr., whom she met on the set of Firstborn and with whom she lived through 1991; during their relationship, Downey, Jr. had a drug problem, and Parker has commented that she thought that she was “the person holding him together… @
