Molly Parker (born June 30, 1972) is a Canadian actress who portrayed Alma Garret Ellsworth in HBO's Deadwood, and later reprised her role in Deadwood: The Movie.
Biography[]
Molly Parker, the extremely talented and versatile Canadian actress is best known in the United States for playing the Western widow "Alma Garret" on the cable-TV series Deadwood (2004). Raised on a commune, she described as "a hippie farm" in Pitt Meadows, B.C., Parker got the acting bug when she was 16 years old, after 13 years of ballet training.[1]
Parker's uncle was an actor, and his agent took her on as a client, enabling her to launch her career in small roles on Canadian television. She enrolled at Vancouver's Gastown Actors' Studio after she graduated from high school, and continued to act on TV in series and TV-movies while learning her craft at acting school.[1]
Credits[]
Season 1[]
- "Deadwood" Alma Garret
- "Deep Water" Alma Garret
- "Reconnoitering the Rim" Alma Garret
- "Here Was a Man" Alma Garret
- "The Trial of Jack McCall" Alma Garret
- "Plague" Alma Garret
- "Bullock Returns to the Camp" Alma Garret
- "Suffer the Little Children" Alma Garret
- "No Other Sons or Daughters" Alma Garret
- "Mister Wu" Alma Garret
- "Jewel's Boot Is Made for Walking" Alma Garret
- "Sold Under Sin" Alma Garret
Season 2[]
- "A Lie Agreed Upon: Part I" Alma Garret
- "A Lie Agreed Upon: Part II" Alma Garret
- "New Money" Alma Garret
- "Requiem for a Gleet" Alma Garret
- "Complications" Alma Garret
- "Something Very Expensive" Alma Garret
- "E.B. Was Left Out" Alma Garret
- "Childish Things" Alma Garret
- "Amalgamation and Capital" Alma Garret
- "Advances, None Miraculous" Alma Garret
- "The Whores Can Come" Alma Garret
- "Boy-the-Earth-Talks-To" Alma Ellsworth
Season 3[]
- "Tell Your God to Ready for Blood" Alma Ellsworth
- "I Am Not the Fine Man You Take Me For" Alma Ellsworth
- "True Colors" Alma Ellsworth
- "Full Faith and Credit" Alma Ellsworth
- "A Two-Headed Beast" Alma Ellsworth
- "A Rich Find" Alma Ellsworth
- "Unauthorized Cinnamon" Alma Ellsworth
- "Amateur Night" Alma Ellsworth
- "A Constant Throb" Alma Ellsworth
- "The Catbird Seat" Alma Ellsworth
- "Tell Him Something Pretty" Alma Ellsworth
Movie[]
Filmography[]
| Title | Role | Year |
|---|---|---|
| Silent Motive (TV Movie) | 2nd Female Questioner | 1991 |
| My Son Johnny (TV Movie) | Lori Spoda | |
| The Substitute (TV Movie) | Courtney | 1993 |
| One More Mountain (TV Movie) | Eliza Williams | 1994 |
| Paris or Somewhere (TV Movie) | Peg Kennedy | |
| Serving in Silence: The Margarethe Cammermeyer Story (TV Movie) | Lynette | 1995 |
| Falling from the Sky: Flight 174 (TV Movie) | Norma Sax | |
| Wings of Courage | Jean's Dance Partner | |
| The Ranger, the Cook and a Hole in the Sky (TV Movie) | Sue | |
| Last of the Dogmen | Nurse | |
| Deceived by Trust: A Moment of Truth Movie (TV Movie) | Rachel Morton | |
| Ebbie (TV Movie) | Francine 'Frannie' | |
| Little Criminals (TV Movie) | Social Worker | 1996 |
| Hard Core Logo | Jenifur (uncredited) | |
| Kissed | Sandra | |
| Good Things Too | ||
| Contagious (TV Movie) | Flt. Att. Stephanie | 1997 |
| Bliss | Connie | |
| Intensity (TV Movie) | Chyna Shepherd | |
| Under Heaven | Cynthia | 1998 |
| Wonderland | Molly | 1999 |
| The Five Senses | Anna Miller | |
| Sunshine | Hannah Wippler | |
| The Intruder | Daisy | |
| Ladies Room | Julia | |
| Waking the Dead | Juliet Beck | 2000 |
| Suspicious River | Leila Murray | |
| War Bride | Sylvia | 2001 |
| The Center of the World | Florence | |
| Last Wedding | Sarah | |
| Rare Birds | Alice | |
| Men with Brooms | Amy Foley | 2002 |
| Looking for Leonard | Monica | |
| Marion Bridge | Agnes | |
| Max | Nina Rothman | |
| Pure | Mel | |
| Undying Love | Narrator (voice) | |
| Iron Jawed Angels (TV Movie) | Emily Leighton | 2004 |
| The Confessor | Madeline Finney | |
| Nine Lives | Lisa | 2005 |
| Break a Leg | Kate | |
| Hollywoodland | Laurie Simo | 2006 |
| The Wicker Man | Sister Rose / Sister Thorn | |
| Who Loves the Sun | Maggie Claire | |
| The Road | Motherly Woman | 2009 |
| The Wonderful Maladys (TV Movie) | Mary Malady | 2010 |
| Trigger | Kat | |
| Oliver Sherman | Irene Page | |
| The Quinn-tuplets (TV Movie) | Rebecca Quinn-Adatto | |
| That's What I Am | Sherri Nichol | 2011 |
| Gone (TV Movie) | Amy Kettering | |
| Meet Jane (TV Movie) | Jane Bilinski | |
| The Playroom | Donna Cantwell | 2012 |
| Hemingway & Gellhorn (TV Movie) | Pauline Hemingway | |
| Hold Fast | Aunt Ellen | 2013 |
| Pete's Christmas (TV Movie) | Dr. Pamela Kidder | |
| Outlaw Prophet: Warren Jeffs (TV Movie) | Janine Jeffs | 2014 |
| Confinement | Lillian | 2016 |
| The 9th Life of Louis Drax | Dalton | |
| American Pastoral | Sheila Smith | |
| Weirdos | Laura | |
| Small Crimes | Charlotte Boyd | 2017 |
| 1922 | Arlette James | |
| Madeline's Madeline | Evangeline | 2018 |
| Deadwood: The Movie (TV Movie) | Alma Ellsworth | 2019 |
| Words on Bathroom Walls | Beth | 2020 |
| Pieces of a Woman | Eva | |
| Jockey | Ruth Wilkes | 2021 |
| Peter Pan & Wendy | Mrs. Darling | 2023 |
| You Gotta Believe | Kathy Kelly | 2024 |
| Title | Role | Year |
|---|---|---|
| Nightmare Cafe | Ivy | 1992 |
| Madison | Karen | 1993 |
| Neon Rider | Gloria Miller / Kate / Dora 'Susie' Brody | 1991-1992, 1994 |
| The Marshal | Teri Sinclair | 1995 |
| The Outer Limits | Jennifer | |
| Highlander | Alice Ramsey | |
| The Sentinel | The Switchman | 1996 |
| Lonesome Dove: The Outlaw Years | Frances Phillips | |
| Poltergeist: The Legacy | Liz Barrow | |
| Titanic | Lulu Foley | |
| Twitch City | Hope | 1998-2000 |
| Six Feet Under | Rabbi Ari | 2002 |
| Odd Job Jack | Alberta Malone (voice) | 2006 |
| Deadwood | Alma Garret | 2004-2006 |
| Swingtown | Susan Miller | 2008 |
| Party Down | Melinda Weintraub | 2009 |
| Boardwalk Empire | Nucky's Wife (photo, uncredited) | 2010 |
| Human Target | Rebecca Brooks | |
| Shattered | Ella Sullivan | |
| Dexter | Lisa Marshall | 2011 |
| The Firm | Abby McDeere | 2012 |
| Motive | Chloe Myton | 2013 |
| Heritage Minutes | Narrator (voice) | 2015 |
| House of Cards | Jackie Sharp | 2014-2016 |
| Goliath | Callie Senate | 2016 |
| Wormwood | Alice Olson | 2017 |
| Lost in Space | Maureen Robinson | 2018-2021 |
| Accused | Laura Broder | 2023 |
| Essex County | Anne | |
| Doc | Dr. Amy Larsen | 2025 |
| Title | Role | Year |
|---|---|---|
| Hate Mail | Maggie | 1992 |
| Just One of the Girls (Video) | Lynne | 1993 |
| The Chain | Mathilde | 1996 |
| From Morning on I Waited Yesterday | Lina | 1998 |
| Magic Bullet | Rachel | 2018 |
