Park Overall
- Actress
- Soundtrack
Originally from Greeneville, Tennessee, Parker Overall toured East
Tennessee with a children's theater group before heading to New York
and a career on the professional stage. Numerous off-off-Broadway
productions of such plays as "The Seagull" and "The Skin of Our Teeth"
preceded her performance as "Becky Lou" in the Hartford Stage Company's
production of Sam Shepard's "The Tooth of
Crime". Overall made her Broadway debut as "Rowena", the prostitute, in
Neil Simon's "Biloxi Blues" and
reprised the role in the motion picture version. Other film credits
include Vibes (1988) with
Jeff Goldblum and
Cyndi Lauper,
Talk Radio (1988), directed by
Oliver Stone,
Mississippi Burning (1988)
with Gene Hackman and
Willem Dafoe and
Kindergarten Cop (1990) with
Arnold Schwarzenegger. On
television, Overall starred in the Witt-Thomas-Harris pilot
The Line (1987) and has
appeared in several productions for The Nashville Network. Parker
Overall was named Best Supporting Actress in a Quality Comedy by the
members of Viewers for Quality Television (VQT), for her work on the
sitcom Empty Nest (1988).
