Sarah Jessica Parker (born March 25, 1965), also sometimes referred to by her initials SJP, is an American film, television and theatre actress and producer. She is best known for her leading role as Carrie Bradshaw on the HBO television series Sex and the City, for which she won four Golden Globe Awards, two Screen Actors Guild Awards and two Emmy Awards. She played the same role in the 2008 feature film version of the show and its sequel, which opens in 2010.

Parker is also known as a film actress, in addition to television and theatre, has appeared in films like Honeymoon in Vegas (1992), Hocus Pocus(1993), along with co-star Bette Midler, Mars Attacks! (1996), State and Main (2000). More recently, Parker starred in The Family Stone (2005) and Sex and the City: The Movie (2008).

Parker was born in Nelsonville, Ohio, the daughter of Barbara, a nursery school operator and teacher, and Steven Parker, an entrepreneur and journalist. Her father, a native of Brooklyn, was Jewish, the original family surname being "Bar-Kahn" ("son of Kohen"); Parker has said of herself, "I always just considered myself a Jew". She was one of eight children from her parents' marriage and her mother's second marriage after Parker's parents' divorce.