Four-time Emmy nominee Mary-Louise Parker may play a pot-dealing mom on Showtime’s Weeds, but celebrating her own success with her real-life mom and dad makes it satisfying for the actress.

“The best part is my parents,” Parker, 44, told People at Saturday’s LA Confidential pre-Emmy party, which she hosted. “I get to call them if they don’t know already, but usually they know before me. That’s absolutely the best part.”

Parker – who is up against Tina Fey, Julia Louis-Dreyfus, Christina Applegate and America Ferrera for comedy actress in a series – has been nominated twice for Weeds. She won an Emmy in 2004 for the miniseries Angels in America – and can sometimes feel pressured to keep scoring nominations, she told People.

“You kind of feel that if you don’t get nominated, you’re letting people down a little bit,” she says.

Her Kids Are Fans
Parker’s two children, William, 4, and Caroline, 1, will be watching at home and they are among her biggest fans. Parker adopted Caroline last year, while actor Billy Crudup is the father to William.

“It’s just extremely humbling,” Parker says about motherhood. “They do [get along with each other]. They’re incredible together. They’re super sweet!”

Parker’s Weeds costar, Kevin Nealon, joked at the party that he’s got Parker in his thoughts for Sunday’s Emmys.

“I haven’t seen her since we taped the last episode, but spiritually I’ve been sending her good vibes,” Nealon says. “I don’t know if she’s received them, with the airwaves today so crowded.”

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Mary-Louise Parker is heading to Broadway in a revival of Henrik Ibsen’s famous play Hedda Gabler.

The Weeds actress will start her run at the American Airlines Theater in January 2009 – her first New York stage appearance since 2004′s Reckless and eight years after she won a Tony Award for her performance in Proof.

Parker is following in impressive footsteps by taking on the role of the play’s eponymous heroine.

Hedda Gabler was last played in New York by Academy Award winner Cate Blanchett at the Brooklyn Academy of Music in 2006.

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“Brad is actually a lovely, smart person, not to mention gorgeous,” the actress gushed about her Assassination of Jesse James co-star to Parade.com.

“People just project so much onto him and Angelina [Jolie] which isn’t true,” Parker said. “I just find it so bizarre. It’s like you’ve never been in the room with this person, much less met them but you’re convinced as to who they are and what they’re morality is.”

The internet, Parker explained, has let people “say whatever they feel like about someone.”

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Mary Louise Parker has broken off her engagement to Weeds co-star Jeffrey Dean Morgan, according to reports.

The couple, who both appear on the hit U.S. TV series, got engaged in February this year after they began dating in 2006. They briefly split in June, but later reconciled their relationship.

The pair’s split has been blamed on their “differing lifestyles”, reports the Associated Press, but Parker hopes to remain friends with Morgan.

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Mary-Louise Parker has finally found happiness with actor Jeffrey Dean Morgan — and has an engagement ring to prove it! A friend confirms to In Touch that the actress, 43, and Jeffrey, 41, are definitely set to wed, adding, “Mary-Louise is the nicest person and the best mother. She is really happy about this.” Jeffrey may have the right woman picked out, but the ring he bought was all wrong. “It was four sizes too big,” the friend reveals to In Touch, because the P.S. I Love You star forgot his fiancée’s ring size. When the pair weds, he’ll inherit a family — Mary-Louise has two kids: Will, 4, and Ash, a baby girl adopted from Africa in September. Jeffrey plays Mary-Louise’s deceased husband on Showtime’s Weeds.

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Congrats to Mary-Louise Parker and Jeffrey Dean Morgan. We can reveal they just got engaged.

Let’s hope that finally shuts up those who kept insisting they’d never last.

Morgan’s proposal also constitutes something of a last laugh for Parker, who was jettisoned by ”Big Fish” star Billy Crudup for Claire Danes when Parker was seven months pregnant with his son, Atticus.

The unsinkable Parker found love again with Morgan on the set of “Weeds.” Crudup and Danes ended up splitting.

Mary-Louise Parker, who won an Emmy for her role in “Angels in America,” and Jeffrey Dean Morgan, who won hearts as Denny Duquette on “Grey’s Anatomy,” called it quits June of last year after a brief romance.

“We’re not together anymore,” Morgan told People magazine at the movie premiere of Kabluey at the L.A. Film Festival in Westwood.

“Everything’s fine, but it just didn’t work out. Wrong time in both our lives.”

But the couple, who play husband and wife on the hit show “Weeds,” have recently rekindled their love and officially announced their engagement. The two had showed up at the “P.S. I Love You” premiere in December 2007 holding hands.

From 1996 to November 2003, Crudup dated Parker, who delivered their boy, William Atticus Parker, on Jan. 7 2004 at New York’s St. Vincent’s Hospital. She named him William after his father.

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