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Parker Posey's elusive personal life: all we know from upbringing to famous ex

The White Lotus has a knack for bringing beloved actors back on our screens, and among them this season is Parker Posey.

The 1990s indie movie darling, 56, stars in the highly-anticipated third season of the Mike White show as Victoria Ratliff, a wealthy Southern matriarch, married to Jason Isaacs' Timothy Ratliff, who are parents to Patrick Schwarzenegger's Saxon Ratliff.

Speaking with The Hollywood Reporter about her character, she revealed: "She's spoiled, she's very much a woman-child and a narcissist — a lot of that is due to her sensitivity and her wanting to evade, which she does through taking pills."

She also confessed that she hasn't watched the new season — out Sunday, February 16 on Max — and that she "may not" watch it. "I just started sweating just by the question of it. I probably should, but I don't know."

In authentic life, the Party Girl actress is far from a snobby Southern matriarch, though she is rather elusive. Here's what we know.

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Her preliminary life

Parker was born Parke

queering the burbs

Another month has come and gone and I still don’t quite have a full-time job (working on it!) so, yes, I’m still taking in a butt-load of movies and TV right now between doom-scrolls through my LinkedIn feed (seriously, it’s violent on there right now).

Thankfully, though, a lot of it has been very good. The terminate of award season meant it was time to trap a final several of the major nominated films, and recent weeks acquire also brought the return of several high-profile legacy TV shows.

So what was good, what was gay, and what was (very often!) both? Read on and don’t be shy in the comments—I’d love to hear what you’ve been taking in as a distraction from the surrounding horrors of the present-day universe as well. Welcome to qtb what’s excellent #02, one of my monthly features available exclusively to paid subscribers.

The White Lotus (Max)

How gay is it (scale of 1-10)? 9

Worth your period (scale of 1-10)? 10

When it was first announced that Parker Posey would be joining the cast of the third season of Mike White’s signature black country resort drama back in January 2024, I knew this was coming: The internet has fallen in love with our Party

Parker Posey

My only Parker Posey story, and I've told it here before:

When she was dating Ryan Adams in 2007, she came with him to my college town, when he was on tour with his group The Cardinals. I didn't depart to the present, but a companion came into town to see it. We had dinner a few hours beforehand, and sat in the window alcove of a now defunct restaurant, just down the street from the venue.

My friend and I were catching up, when she noticed a familiar figure across the street. "Oh my god! It's Parker Posey!" she said. And it was indeed Parker Posey, walking up the street opposite us.

Part of me wanted to run after her, just to tell her how much I devotion her work (especially in "House Of Yes", & the Christopher Guest films), but more than that, I respect her and figured she gets that all the moment. And I DID NOT want to queen out on FUCKING PARKER POSEY during what may have been her one and only ever trip to my home declare. I have no regrets, but damn I wanted to meet her.

The linked article is a review of that May 2007 exhibit, thrown in for fun.

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by Anonymousreply 155May 2, 2023 5:20 AM

Parker Posey

In writing, Posey is refreshingly honest about the difficulties she has faced in an industry that didn’t know where to place her. This has often made it a financially precarious career. Despite acclaimed arthouse serve in Noah Baumbach’s Kicking and Screaming and The House of Yes, that “Queen of the Indies” label became something of a curse. “I’ve gotten some little parts in big films,” she says. “Something new would come up, like a three-scene part as the wife of Matt Damon in some large movie and I’d go: ‘God, why didn’t I get cast in that, just tell me what the feedback was, what did they say?’ and the response was: ‘You’re too much of an indie queen’. So my brand, or what I was called, just separated me from the work.”

Those “little parts in big films” included villainous, scene-stealing turns in Superman Returns, Josie and the Pussycats and Blade: Trinity. Posey also took small-screen roles in Louie, Will & Grace and The Fine Wife, and became part of the Christopher Guest troupe, demonstrating off her improv skills in a string of comedies, including Waiting for Guffman, Best in Show, and most recently Mascots. In the book, she also references the ones she turned down,