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Lara Parker (born October 27, 1940) is an American
Television in the United States

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 television and film actress best known for her role as Angelique on the cult ABC-TV
American Broadcasting Company

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 serial Dark Shadows
Dark Shadows

Dark Shadows is a Gothic Romanticism soap opera that originally aired weekdays on the American Broadcasting Company television network, from June 27, 1966 to April 2, 1971....
 which aired from to . She was born Mary Lamar Rickey in Knoxville, Tennessee
Knoxville, Tennessee

Founded in 1786, Knoxville is the third-largest city in the U.S. state of Tennessee, behind Memphis, Tennessee and Nashville, Tennessee, and is the county seat of Knox County, Tennessee....
, and received a Bachelor of Arts
Bachelor of Arts

Bachelor of Arts , from the Latin language Artium Baccalaureus, is an Undergraduate education bachelor's degree awarded for either a course or a program in either the liberal arts, the sciences or both....
 degree from Rhodes College
Rhodes College

Rhodes College is a four-year, private school, perennial top tier Liberal arts colleges in the United States located in Memphis, Tennessee, Tennessee, USA....
 and a Master of Arts
Master of Arts

The Magister Artium, Magister in Artibus, or Master of Arts degree is an academic degree of medieval origin which has later acquired different characteristics in different educational systems....
 degree from the University of Iowa
University of Iowa

The University of Iowa is a public university research university located in Iowa City, Iowa, United States. The university is organized into eleven colleges granting undergraduate, graduate, and professional degrees....
.

Parker played the role of "Laura Banner" in the opening sequence of the pilot for the TV series The Incredible Hulk
The Incredible Hulk (1977 TV series)

The Incredible Hulk is an United States television series based on the Marvel Comics comic book Hulk . The pilot episodes were a pair of TV movies on the CBS network beginning on November 4, 1977 in television; the series soon followed, airing from March 10, 1978 in television to June 2, 1982 in television....
 , and the fashion model/witch "Madelaine" in the Kolchak: The Night Stalker
Kolchak: The Night Stalker

Kolchak: The Night Stalker is an American television series that aired on American Broadcasting Company in 1974. It featured a newspaper reporter — Carl Kolchak, played by Darren McGavin — who investigates crimes with mysterious and unlikely causes that the proper authorities won't accept or pursue....
 episode "The Trevi Collection".






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Lara Parker (born October 27, 1940) is an American
Television in the United States

Television is one of the media of the United States of the United States. In an expansive country of Demography of the United States, television programs are some of the few things that nearly all Americans can share....
 television and film actress best known for her role as Angelique on the cult ABC-TV
American Broadcasting Company

The American Broadcasting Company is an United States television network. Created in 1943 from the former National Broadcasting Company Blue Network, ABC is owned by The Walt Disney Company and is part of Disney-ABC Television Group....
 serial Dark Shadows
Dark Shadows

Dark Shadows is a Gothic Romanticism soap opera that originally aired weekdays on the American Broadcasting Company television network, from June 27, 1966 to April 2, 1971....
 which aired from to . She was born Mary Lamar Rickey in Knoxville, Tennessee
Knoxville, Tennessee

Founded in 1786, Knoxville is the third-largest city in the U.S. state of Tennessee, behind Memphis, Tennessee and Nashville, Tennessee, and is the county seat of Knox County, Tennessee....
, and received a Bachelor of Arts
Bachelor of Arts

Bachelor of Arts , from the Latin language Artium Baccalaureus, is an Undergraduate education bachelor's degree awarded for either a course or a program in either the liberal arts, the sciences or both....
 degree from Rhodes College
Rhodes College

Rhodes College is a four-year, private school, perennial top tier Liberal arts colleges in the United States located in Memphis, Tennessee, Tennessee, USA....
 and a Master of Arts
Master of Arts

The Magister Artium, Magister in Artibus, or Master of Arts degree is an academic degree of medieval origin which has later acquired different characteristics in different educational systems....
 degree from the University of Iowa
University of Iowa

The University of Iowa is a public university research university located in Iowa City, Iowa, United States. The university is organized into eleven colleges granting undergraduate, graduate, and professional degrees....
.

Parker played the role of "Laura Banner" in the opening sequence of the pilot for the TV series The Incredible Hulk
The Incredible Hulk (1977 TV series)

The Incredible Hulk is an United States television series based on the Marvel Comics comic book Hulk . The pilot episodes were a pair of TV movies on the CBS network beginning on November 4, 1977 in television; the series soon followed, airing from March 10, 1978 in television to June 2, 1982 in television....
 , and the fashion model/witch "Madelaine" in the Kolchak: The Night Stalker
Kolchak: The Night Stalker

Kolchak: The Night Stalker is an American television series that aired on American Broadcasting Company in 1974. It featured a newspaper reporter — Carl Kolchak, played by Darren McGavin — who investigates crimes with mysterious and unlikely causes that the proper authorities won't accept or pursue....
 episode "The Trevi Collection". Her other TV work includes appearances on Kung Fu
Kung Fu (TV series)

Kung Fu is an American television series which starred David Carradine. It was created by Ed Spielman, directed and produced by Jerry Thorpe, and developed by Herman Miller ....
, Kojak
Kojak

Kojak refers to two separate but related United States Crime drama television series, with the original airing on CBS and the second series airing on USA Network....
, Quincy M.E., Hawaii Five-O
Hawaii Five-O

Hawaii Five-O is an United States television series that starred Jack Lord as Lead Detective for a fictional Hawaii state police department....
, The Rockford Files
The Rockford Files

The Rockford Files is an American detective television drama originally aired on the NBC television network between September 13, 1974 and January 10, 1980; it has remained in constant television syndication to the present day, making it a cult classic....
, Highway to Heaven
Highway to Heaven

Highway to Heaven is an United States television drama series which ran on NBC from 1984 in television to 1989 in television.It starred Michael Landon as Jonathan Smith, an angel sent down to earth, and his human companion Mark Gordon, played by Victor French....
, the CBS daytime serial Capitol
Capitol (TV series)

Capitol is an United States soap opera which aired on the daytime schedule of CBS from March 29, 1982 to March 20, 1987 for 1270 episodes. As its name suggests, the storyline usually revolved around the politics intrigues of people in Washington D.C., whose lives intertwined....
 and the ABC daytime serial One Life to Live
One Life to Live

One Life to Live is an American soap opera which has been broadcast on the American Broadcasting Company television network since July 15, 1968....
.

Parker's best known film role came in the Oscar-winning drama Save the Tiger
Save the Tiger

Save the Tiger is a 1973 in film film which tells a story of moral conflict in modern America. It stars Jack Lemmon, Jack Gilford, Laurie Heineman, Thayer David, Lara Parker and Liv Lindeland....
 , starring Jack Lemmon
Jack Lemmon

'John Uhler "Jack" Lemmon III' was an United States actor known principally for his comedic roles. He starred in over 60 films including Some Like It Hot, The Apartment, Days of Wine and Roses , Irma La Douce, The Odd Couple , The Out-of-Towners , Glengarry Glen Ross , The China Syndrome and JFK ....
, in which she played a sympathetic prostitute who is devastated when her client suffers a near fatal heart attack.

In , Parker published a novel, Angelique's Descent, the sequel to which, Dark Shadows: The Salem Branch, came out in July . She has recently reprised the role of Angelique for a new series of Dark Shadows audio dramas, and is the reader for the audiobook recording of Angelique's Descent.

Personal life

Parker is married to Jim Hawkins, a building contractor and former child actor who appeared in It's A Wonderful Life
It's a Wonderful Life

It's a Wonderful Life is an United States film produced and directed by Frank Capra and loosely based on the short story "The Greatest Gift " written by Philip Van Doren Stern....
, The Donna Reed Show
The Donna Reed Show

The Donna Reed Show is an United States situation comedy which aired on American Broadcasting Company from 1958 in television to 1966 in television....
 and Petticoat Junction
Petticoat Junction

Petticoat Junction is an United States situation comedy produced by Filmways which originally aired on the CBS network from 1963 to 1970. The series is part of a triad of interrelated shows about rural characters created by Paul Henning, the other two being The Beverly Hillbillies and Green Acres....
. The couple have a daughter, Caitlin Elizabeth Hawkins (born 1985), who is studying documentary filmmaking. Parker has two sons, Rick Parker, a record producer married to singer Miranda Lee Richards, and Andy Parker, a contractor, from her first marriage to artist Tom Parker. The Hawkins live in a designer house in the Santa Monica Mountains
Santa Monica Mountains

The Santa Monica Mountains are a low Transverse Ranges in Southern California California in the United States....
 in Los Angeles
Los Angeles, California

Los Angeles is the largest city in the U.S. state of California and the List of United States cities by population in the United States. Often abbreviated as L.A. and nicknamed The City of Angels, Los Angeles is rated as a beta global city, has an estimated population of 3.8 million and spans over in Southern California....


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