MonicaParker

Monica Parker

Award-Winning Actress, Writer & Producer

Award winning actress, writer and producer Monica Parker has always known she was destined for big things. Working in film and television in Los Angeles for the past twenty years with some of the greats made it abundantly that she was right on the mark. Parker’s humour, perspective and her warmth have opened doors and delighted audiences all over the world. Her ability to never shy away from the truth even when painful, embarrassing, sometimes awkward is one of her greatest gifts to an audience. Parker’s smart and sassy take on living life to the fullest have made her a much-desired speaker, pundit, and frequent talk show guest.


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Award winning actress, writer and producer Monica Parker has always known she was destined for big things.  She just kept hoping that it meant more than her dress size.  

Working in film and television in Los Angeles for the past twenty years with some of the greats – Sir Anthony Hopkins, Michael Douglas, Gwyneth Paltrow, Gena Rowlands, John Cusack, Gordon Pinsent and Kim Catrall made it abundantly clear her dress size was one the smallest of her big things.  Parker’s humour, perspective and her warmth have opened doors and delighted audiences all over the world.  Her ability to never shy away from the truth even when painful, embarrassing, sometimes awkward - but always relatable and seriously funny - is one of her greatest gifts to an audience.

On television, Parker has been a guest on numerable shows from Murder She Wrote, Who’s the Boss, E.R., The X-Files, S.C.T.V, and she has hosted three of her own series; Evening Out, Sweet City Woman and There’s Got to Be a Better Way.

Parker is developing a reality series for Mark Victor Hansen (Chicken Soup for the Soul) and Robert Allen (No Money Down) based on their best-selling book, The One-Minute Millionaire. She is also working on her humorous but true non-fiction book, Survival Secrets of a Beverly Hills Bag Lady. Currently, Parker is starring in her insightful and funny one-woman show, Sex, Pies & A Few White Lies, which premiered in Toronto in 2010 to sold-out audiences.

Parker’s recipes for surviving the sand-traps, sinkholes and minefields guaranteed to appear in everyone’s lives are insightful, pragmatic, laced with disarming candour and spot-on wit.  Her smart and sassy take on living life to the fullest have made her a much-desired speaker, pundit, and frequent talk show guest.  

For a good time – call Monica Parker.

  • Getting Waisted (Success At Any Size)

    Getting Waisted (Success At Any Size) is a funny, sometimes painful, but always inspirational look at life through society's warped fun-house mirror. Monica Parker talks about her bumpy ride from chubby baby to chunky adult, where every mouthful arrived loaded with calories and anxiety.  Insanity was added to the already toxic mix when she moved to Beverly Hills, a town filled with women all running around in circles, like dogs chasing their tails, as they dementedly tried to get back to their original birth weight of six-and-a-half pounds;  A place where being fat is considered a criminal offence.

    No one tells a short person to get taller, or a tall person to get shorter, but fat people hear about their bodies all the time.  It's news!  It's the cover story in every magazine.  Everyone has an opinion and everyone has a miracle cure!  This is Monica's take on her hard-won journey from self-loathing to making peace with being a large woman in a society that reveres small.

  • Living Large

    "Living Large" is Monica Parker’s story and every woman's story.... and some guy's too...(if they're dating.)  Five pounds too much, or fifty, brings on a full-menu of psychosis from an obsessive stalking of bakers, a committed avoidance of mirrors, and a determination to drown out the judgement of all those skinny @% * gym rats, which leads to the pendulum-swing of endless dieting, bingeing, purging and ultimately, gratitude. 

    Without this endless struggle, Parker wouldn't be the woman she is today.  Without the 101 humiliations she has endured and inflicted upon herself, she wouldn't have the humour, perspective and insight allowing her to be so grateful for being exactly who she is.

    And that is her goal: to make you laugh a lot, wince a little and celebrate every single flaw whatever they may be, because it is our flaws that are our tickets to dancing down our own path. 

    Life is short: Eat dessert first!