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Nicole Frances Parker (born February 21, 1978) is an American actress best known for her work on FOX's sketch comedy show MADtv. She is the longest-serving female actress on the show since 2003. She left MADtv after Season 14 in 2009 and is currently playing the role of Elphaba in the Tony Award winning musical Wicked.
er hometown of Irvine, California, she performed at South Coast Repertory and Laguna Playhouse.
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Nicole Frances Parker (born February 21, 1978) is an American actress best known for her work on FOX's sketch comedy show MADtv. She is the longest-serving female actress on the show since 2003. She left MADtv after Season 14 in 2009 and is currently playing the role of Elphaba in the Tony Award winning musical Wicked.
Early life
In her hometown of Irvine, California, she performed at South Coast Repertory and Laguna Playhouse. She also studied Theatre and Voice at Indiana University and performed in an improv troupe called The Original Full Frontal Comedy. After college, Parker performed at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival, the Second City in Chicago, Bloemendaal, Unhinged Academy and Groningen. In addition, she and some college friends formed a theater company in New York called Waterwell Productions. Parker moved to Amsterdam for two years, where she performed in the comedy show Boom Chicago alongside MADtv alumni Ike Barinholtz and Jordan Peele.
MADtv
Parker joined the cast of MADtv in 2003 as a featured performer for the ninth season. She was later promoted to cast member status the following season. Parker's most noteworthy characters include Inside Looking Out host Pat-Beth LaMontrose and the carefree yet naive Disney Girl. She has a tremendous celebrity impressionist list, often in the form of imitating pop-music stars in parody music videos.
, Parker is in her sixth year on MADtv, Nicole Parker left the show on the first week of November 2008, but will only appear in pretaped sketches until MADtvs series finale in 2009.
Characters (as seen on MADtv)
The Lillian Verner Game Show) Beth (Sean the Floor Leader) Candy Matsumoto (Hello Hollywood/Iraq, Hello!) Charlene (Baby Joey) Disney Girl Pat-Beth LaMontrose (Inside Looking Out) Tori McLachlan, a singer/songwriter who performs depressing songs Toni Horse (Fashion Surprise) Elisssa (Girlicous) Amy Little (Nice White Lady)
Broadway musical career
In 2004 Parker was Nominated for Jeff Award nomination for Best Actress in a Principal Role: Musical, The People vs. Friar Laurence, The Man Who Killed Romeo and Juliet.
From July 2006 to January 2007, Parker performed in Martin Short: Fame Becomes Me comedy musical.
In 2008 to protest the passage of Proposition 8, musical theatre composer Marc Shaiman wrote a satiric mini-musical called The three-minute video was distributed on the internet at FunnyOrDie.com beginning on December 3, 2008. It was written and produced in just a few days. The cast includes Jack Black, Neil Patrick Harris, John C. Reilly, Allison Janney, Andy Richter, Maya Rudolph, Margaret Cho, Rashida Jones, and Sarah Chalke. It was directed by Adam Shankman. The video satirizes Christian churches that selectively pick and choose Christian doctrines to follow. Among other comic assertions in the video is a song alleging that gay marriage would save the economy, inspired by a UCLA study finding that legalization of gay marriage would provide $370M in additional revenue to California's economy. It received 1.2 million hits in its first day.
On January 16, 2009 Parker took over the role of Elphaba from Marcie Dodd in the Broadway production of the musical Wicked. She is contracted with the show until July 2009.
Theatre roles
Television roles
Film roles
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