Lara Parker (born Mary Lamar Rickey; October , ) is an American
television, stage, and film actress known for her role as Angelique on
the ABC-TV serial Dark Shadows which aired from to .Parker was born
in Knoxville, Tennessee and grew up in Memphis. Descendant of a
prominent Southern family, she was a great-great-granddaughter of
Lucius Quintus Cincinnatus Lamar II and a third-great-granddaughter of
Augustus Baldwin Longstreet, an uncle of Confederate General James
Longstreet. She began a philosophy B.A. at Vassar College before
receiving her Bachelor of Arts degree from Rhodes College (then known
as Southwestern) and a Master of Arts degree in speech and drama from
the University of Iowa.Parker played the role of "Laura Banner" in the
opening sequence of the pilot for the television series The Incredible
Hulk (), and the fashion model/witch "Madelaine" in the Kolchak: The
Night Stalker episode "The Trevi Collection". Her other television
work includes appearances on “Emergency -SEp†, Kung Fu, Police
Woman, Kojak, Alice, Quincy, M.E., Hawaii Five-O, The Rockford Files,
Highway to Heaven, Switch, Baretta, Galactica ("The Night The Cylons
Landed", Parts I & II), the CBS daytime serial Capitol and the ABC
daytime serial One Life to Live. She played secretary Wanda in the
television miniseries Washington: Behind Closed Doors and had a
recurring role in the short lived television series Jessica
Novak.Parker reprised the role of Angelique in Night of Dark Shadows,
the second feature film based on Dark Shadows. She was joined by her
Dark Shadows castmates Kate Jackson, David Selby, Grayson Hall, Nancy
Barrett, John Karlen and Thayer David. This film was more loosely
based on the series than House of Dark Shadows was, and it did not
fare as well at the box office as the first film. She appeared
opposite Robert De Niro in the Brian De Palma film Hi, Mom!, but her
best known film role came in the Oscar-winning drama Save the Tiger
(), starring Jack Lemmon, in which she played a sympathetic prostitute
who is devastated when her client suffers a near fatal heart attack.
In , she played the wife of Peter Fonda's character in Race with the
Devil.
television, stage, and film actress known for her role as Angelique on
the ABC-TV serial Dark Shadows which aired from to .Parker was born
in Knoxville, Tennessee and grew up in Memphis. Descendant of a
prominent Southern family, she was a great-great-granddaughter of
Lucius Quintus Cincinnatus Lamar II and a third-great-granddaughter of
Augustus Baldwin Longstreet, an uncle of Confederate General James
Longstreet. She began a philosophy B.A. at Vassar College before
receiving her Bachelor of Arts degree from Rhodes College (then known
as Southwestern) and a Master of Arts degree in speech and drama from
the University of Iowa.Parker played the role of "Laura Banner" in the
opening sequence of the pilot for the television series The Incredible
Hulk (), and the fashion model/witch "Madelaine" in the Kolchak: The
Night Stalker episode "The Trevi Collection". Her other television
work includes appearances on “Emergency -SEp†, Kung Fu, Police
Woman, Kojak, Alice, Quincy, M.E., Hawaii Five-O, The Rockford Files,
Highway to Heaven, Switch, Baretta, Galactica ("The Night The Cylons
Landed", Parts I & II), the CBS daytime serial Capitol and the ABC
daytime serial One Life to Live. She played secretary Wanda in the
television miniseries Washington: Behind Closed Doors and had a
recurring role in the short lived television series Jessica
Novak.Parker reprised the role of Angelique in Night of Dark Shadows,
the second feature film based on Dark Shadows. She was joined by her
Dark Shadows castmates Kate Jackson, David Selby, Grayson Hall, Nancy
Barrett, John Karlen and Thayer David. This film was more loosely
based on the series than House of Dark Shadows was, and it did not
fare as well at the box office as the first film. She appeared
opposite Robert De Niro in the Brian De Palma film Hi, Mom!, but her
best known film role came in the Oscar-winning drama Save the Tiger
(), starring Jack Lemmon, in which she played a sympathetic prostitute
who is devastated when her client suffers a near fatal heart attack.
In , she played the wife of Peter Fonda's character in Race with the
Devil.
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