Weekly Prayer Focus
To Pray for this Week
This week our prayer focus is for Andrea Parker:
Andrea Nicole Parker was born in Monterey County, California. She is an American actress and former balletdancer. Andrea began ballet training at age 6, and at age 15 she joined a professional dance company. She quit her career in ballet after three years of touring, switched to contemporary dance, and trained to become an actress while working as a bartender. Her first documented film role was at age 19 in the movie Rented Lips in which she played a dancer/nurse.
Andrea got her break in television playing a nurse on the award-winning Seinfeld episode "The Contest" in 1992. After that first speaking role, she had several other guest-starring roles in television series and movies, most notably a recurring role in ER as Linda Farrell, the love interest of Dr. Doug Ross, and as Caitlin Pike in JAG. She was a body double for Julia Roberts in the movie Pretty Woman; hers are the legs seen in the opening scene of the main character zipping up her boots. She also did several pilots before she gained a cult-following for her role as Miss Parker on the NBC television series The Pretender.
Andrea says she felt compelled to play the role of the complex, cynical, powerful and intimidating yet somewhat tortured Ice Queen because her name was "all over the script." Miss Parker is a character many viewers love and others love to hate. Andrea also played the minor role of Catherine Parker, Miss Parker's mother in The Pretender, a role that is in stark contrast to the character Miss Parker.
After The Pretender was cancelled by NBC in 2000, Andrea did another guest spot on JAG before signing on to reprise her role as Miss Parker in the telemovies for The Pretender, which aired on TNT in 2001. She then returned to series television in 2002 and starred in the ABC network comedy Less Than Perfect, playing Lydia Weston until it was cancelled in 2006. She has made several guest appearances on television talk shows and celebrity events such as the various celebrity poker tournaments.
While promoting "The Pretender" in Monte Carlos' TV festival with her co-star Michael T. Weiss in Feb, 2001, she said in two different interviews that she had been living with a man named Jim for 11 years. She later married him and he died of cancer almost two years after that interview.
Andrea is trained as a stunt-driver and can handle firearms. She also likes to ride horses, spend time with family and friends and drive hot wheels. She even attended the Motion Picture Stunt Driving Course in San Bernardino, California.
Andrea is noted for her support of various charities such as the National Hospice Palliative Care Organization, Glenn Siegel's My Good Friend charity organization, The Michael J. Fox Foundation for Parkinson's research and Project Angel Food. In February 2006, Andrea attended a benefit with former Pretender co-stars Michael T. Weiss and James Denton for Cure Autism Now.
Please pray that this week the Lord will draw Andrea to His Son, so that we can spend all of eternity with her!