Sarah Jessica Parker's 7 Siblings: All About Her Brothers and Sisters

Many of Sarah Jessica Parker’s siblings also work in theater and television

Sarah Jessica Parker is known for her iconic roles in Sex and the city and Hocus pocus, but she is not the only creative woman in her family.

Many of her seven siblings – Rachel, Timothy and Pippin Parker and Allegra, Megan, Andrew and Aaron Forste – are involved in films and theatre.

Sarah’s parents, Stephen Parker and Barbra Forste (then Parker) had four children: Timothy, Sarah, Pippin and Rachel. According to Los Angeles TimesSarah’s parents divorced when she was young, and Barbra married Paul Forste in 1969. Together they had four children: Megan, Aaron, Andrew and Allegra.

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The actress joked in a 2008 interview Parade that her career was a result of not getting enough attention as a child because there were so many children in her family.

“A few years ago I found all our baby books,” she recalled. “My two older brothers’ baby books were full of pictures. Then we found mine, and it only had my name on it. There was nothing else inside. Not a single picture… I’ve been hungry for attention ever since!”

Here’s everything to know about Sarah Jessica Parker’s siblings.

Sarah spoke about her family’s financial difficulties

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.

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With such a large family, Sarah said her parents had to work hard to make ends meet.

“I remember my childhood as Dickensian,” said Sarah The The New York Times 2000. ”I remember being poor. There was no great way to hide it. Sometimes we had no electricity. Sometimes we didn’t have Christmas… or the collectors came…”

Despite these memories, Sarah told the newspaper that she fondly remembers her childhood.

Barbra deliberately raised a creative family

Sarah said that Barbra always encouraged her children to be creative, taking them to museums and enrolling them in art classes.

“Theater and ballet weren’t about the money,” Sarah said The New York Times 2000. “It was about the big idea of ​​who we are as a family.”

“She [my mother] wanted to raise a family that has great and important lives,” the actress continued. “It was weird because we were living in all this chaos, but her image was actually a big motivator.”

Many of Parker and Forste’s children acted professionally when they were young. Rachel, Timothy, Andrew and Sarah appeared together in The sound of music 1977, and Sarah got the lead role Annie on Broadway in 1979 when she was 14 years old.

“I would like to say that I was absolutely not an acting mother,” said Barbra The New York Times 2000. “But on some level I am. What the kids did was pretty much under our control. But all the kids who didn’t want to act didn’t.”

Timothy acted with Sara

Matthew Broderick, Timothy Britton Parker and wife with sister Sarah Jessica Parker.

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Timothy, also called Toby, has a career in theater and film.

He appeared on stage for the first time in the year Innocent with Sarah in 1976, in what was also her first theatrical role. The couple starred together again in The sound of music a year later.

As an adult, he appeared in the original cast of the film Lease and in Wicked on Broadway. Timothy has also starred in TV shows including Tower of cards and Law and order. The actor even worked with Sarah on her show Divorce, appearing in four episodes of the 2019 HBO series.

Pippin has a career in the theater

Pippin Parker and sister Sarah Jessica Parker at the after party for The Culture Project’s “Betrayed” on opening night at The Bowery Hotel on February 6, 2008.

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Pippin has taught at the New School for Drama since 2004 and was once dean of the writing, acting and directing program there.

In addition to his teaching career, Pippin directed many plays, including issued and knickers. He is also the author of plays like Anesthesia and Supported living and radio play Giftwhich aired on NPR.

Rachel worked in medicine

One of the few siblings not working in the entertainment industry, Rachel worked as a physician’s assistant.

In one in 2004 Magazine O interview, Oprah asked Sarah about women she admires, and Sarah replied, “My sister Rachel, who’s a physician’s assistant and she’s a really nice person.”

The actress continued: “She specializes in heart surgery. Nobody mentions her name in the papers, but she literally saves people’s lives all day long.”

Timothy and Pippin founded a theater company together

Timothy Britten Parker at Naked Angels 25th Anniversary Gala “One Big Ball!” at the Roseland Ballroom on February 14, 2011 in New York City. ; Pippin Parker at the premiere of “Betrayed” on February 6, 2008 in New York City.

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In 1986, Timothy and Pippin helped found the Naked Angels, a theater company in New York that was intended to be “an open environment for expression, experimentation and production,” according to their website.

Founding members included Gina Gershon, Lili Taylor, Nancy Travis and Marisa Tomei — plus Sarah and her future husband Matthew Broderick.

In fact, Naked Angels is how Sarah met Broderick. Although both were founders, the two did not work together until Broderick directed a play with the theater company and befriended Timothy and Pippin, according to The New York Times. He finally met Sara in November 1991. They married in 1997, in a ceremony where she famously wore black.

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Andrew also works in theatre

Andrew works behind the scenes for shows on and off Broadway

He has co-owned prop company Propaganda since 2013, according to his LinkedIn bio. Andrew is also the head of props at the Stephen Sondheim Theater in New York, a position he has held since 2009.

Sarah credited her upbringing as an influence on her parenting

Matthew Broderick, Sarah Jessica Parker, Tabitha Hodge Broderick, James Wilkie Broderick and Marion Loretta Elwell Broderick pose at the premiere of the new musical “Some Like It Hot!” on Broadway on December 11, 2022.

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While Sarah talked about her family’s struggles, the actress also shared the positive influences of her childhood.

“I was never spoiled,” she said. “I was only the child of the family for a short time and I was lucky to get any attention, let alone be spoiled.”

Family stone the actress continued: “I was really lucky. I think that if I had been raised as a child of privilege, I would not be the working person I am today. I greatly appreciate the work.”

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Sarah said she carried the lessons from her childhood into raising her own children, James Wilkie, Tabitha Hodge and Marion Loretta Elwell. Talking to Parade before the birth of her twin daughters, Sarah opened up about her parenting philosophy.

“I think it’s incumbent on my husband and I to really step up and show James Wilkie by example what it means to owe something to your community and that he’s not entitled to the benefits of our hard work,” said Sarah. “This does not mean that I deny him or hide the joys of childhood. But I also don’t want him to think that the world he lives in is the real world.”

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