Sarah Jessica Parker and Timothy Britten Parker attend RENT 10th Year Anniversary - Afterparty on April 24, 2006 in New York City. ; Pippin Parker and Sarah Jessica Parker.Photo:Billy Farrell/Patrick McMullan/Getty ; Andrew H Walker/WWD/Penske Media/Getty
Billy Farrell/Patrick McMullan/Getty ; Andrew H Walker/WWD/Penske Media/Getty
Sarah Jessica Parkeris known for her iconic roles inSex and the CityandHocus Pocus,but she’s not the only creative one in her family.
Many of her seven siblings — Rachel, Timothy and Pippin Parker, and Allegra, Megan, Andrew and Aaron Forste — are involved in movies and theater.
Sarah’s parents, Stephen Parker and Barbra Forste (then Parker) had four children together: Timothy, Sarah, Pippin and Rachel. Per theLos Angeles Times, Sarah’s parents divorced when she was a toddler, and Barbra married Paul Forste in 1969. Together, they had four children: Megan, Aaron, Andrew and Allegra.
The actress joked in a 2008 interview withParadethat her career was a result of not getting enough attention as a child because there were so many kids in her family.
Here is everything to know about Sarah Jessica Parker’s brothers and sisters.
Sarah has talked about her family’s financial struggles
Pippin Parker and Sarah Jessica Parker with their mother Barbra at the “Betrayed” Opening Night - After Party at the Bowery Hotel on February 6, 2008 in New York City.Jim Spellman/WireImage
Jim Spellman/WireImage
With such a large family, Sarah has said her parents had to work hard to make ends meet.
‘‘I remember my childhood as Dickensian,’’ Sarah toldTheNew York Timesin 2000. ‘‘I remember being poor. There was no great way to hide it. We didn’t have electricity sometimes. We didn’t have Christmases sometimes … or the bill collectors came…"
Despite these memories, Sarah told the newspaper that she looks back fondly on her childhood.
Barbra intentionally raised a creative family
Sarah has said that Barbra always encouraged her children toward creative pursuits, taking them to museums and enrolling them in fine arts classes.
‘‘The theater and ballet were not about money,’’ Sarah toldThe New York Timesin 2000. ‘‘It was about this grand idea of who we were as a family.’’
“She [my mother] wanted to raise a family that had grand and important lives,” the actress continued. “It was weird because we were living in all this chaos, but her image was actually a great motivator.’’
Many of the Parker and Forste kids acted professionally when they were young. Rachel, Timothy, Andrew and Sarah appeared together inThe Sound of Musicin 1977, and Sarah went on to landthe lead role inAnnieon Broadway in 1979 when she was 14.
“I would like to say that I was absolutely not a stage mother,” Barbra toldThe New York Timesin 2000. “But on some level I was. What the children did was pretty much under our control. But any of the kids that did not want to act didn’t do it.”
Timothy has acted with Sarah
Matthew Broderick, Timothy Britton Parker and wife with sister Sarah Jessica Parker.Bruce Glikas/FilmMagic
Bruce Glikas/FilmMagic
He first appeared on stage inThe Innocentswith Sarah in 1976, in what was also her first theater role. The pair acted together again inThe Sound of Musica year later.
Pippin has a career in theater
Pippin Parker and sister Sarah Jessica Parker attend the after party for The Culture Project’s “Betrayed” on opening night at The Bowery Hotel on February 6, 2008.Bruce Glikas/FilmMagic
Pippin has been teaching at the New School for Drama since 2004 and was once the dean of the writing, acting and directing program there.
In addition to his career as a professor, Pippin has directed many plays, includingBetrayedandKnickerbocker. He has also authored plays likeAnesthesiaandAssisted Livingand the radio playA Gift, which aired on NPR.
Rachel has worked in medicine
One of the few siblings who doesn’t work in entertainment, Rachel worked as a physician’s assistant.
Ina 2004O Magazineinterview, Oprah asked Sarah about the women she admired and Sarah answered, “My sister Rachel, who’s a physician’s assistant and a really decent person.”
The actress continued, “She specializes in heart surgery. No one mentions her name in a newspaper, but she literally saves people’s lives all day long.”
Timothy and Pippin started a theater company together
Timothy Britten Parker at the Naked Angels' 25th Anniversary Gala “One Big Ball!” at Roseland Ballroom on February 14, 2011 in New York City. ; Pippin Parker attends “Betrayed” Opening Night on February 6, 2008 in New York City.Bruce Glikas/FilmMagic ; Jim Spellman/WireImage
Bruce Glikas/FilmMagic ; Jim Spellman/WireImage
In 1986, Timothy and Pippin helped to found Naked Angels, a theater company in New York City intended to be “an open environment for expression, experimentation, and production,” according totheir website.
Thefounding membersincludedGina Gershon,Lili Taylor,Nancy TravisandMarisa Tomei— plus Sarah and her eventual husbandMatthew Broderick.
In fact, Naked Angels is how Sarah met Broderick. Though they were both founders, the two didn’t work together until Broderick directed a play with the theater company and became friendly with Timothy and Pippin, according toThe New York Times. He finally met Sarah in November 1991. They married in 1997, in a ceremony whereshe famously wore black.
Andrew also works in theater
Andrew works behind the scenes for staged productions on- and off-broadway
He has been co-owner of the prop-making company Propaganda since 2013, per hisLinkedIn bio. Andrew is also head of props at the Stephen Sondheim Theatre in N.Y.C., a position he’s held since 2009.
Sarah has credited her upbringing with influencing her parenting
Matthew Broderick, Sarah Jessica Parker, Tabitha Hodge Broderick, James Wilkie Broderick and Marion Loretta Elwell Broderick pose at the opening night of the new musical “Some Like It Hot!” on Broadway on December 11, 2022.Bruce Glikas/WireImage
Bruce Glikas/WireImage
Even though Sarah has talked about her family’s struggles, the actress has also shared the positive impacts of her childhood.
The Family Stoneactress continued, “I was really lucky. I think that if I had been raised a child of privilege, I wouldn’t be the working person I am today. I have a great appreciation for work.”
Sarah said she carried the lessons of her childhood into raising her own kids,James Wilkie,Tabitha HodgeandMarion Loretta Elwell. Talking toParadebefore the birth of her twin daughters, Sarah opened up about her parenting philosophy.
source: people.com
