SARAH Sarah Jessica Parker is always my favorite celebrity to interview—and I have had the pleasure of interviewing her for a half-dozen cover stories—because she speaks truth to power. The disciplined actress, who began a long acting career debuting on Broadway at age 11, stars in and produces HBO’s comedic drama Divorce (the third season is out this month), holding court alongside Thomas Haden Church and Molly Shannon. Beyond the set, the Amagansett girl has always been curious about the world and giving back to it. She shares her booksmart findings through an imprint with Crown Publishing Group, SJP for Hogarth; and a partnership with American Library Association: Book Club Central, an online platform that provides reading resources, recommendations, expert-curated book lists and other content for book clubs and readers. She also lends her name and support to countless causes in NYC, where she also owns a home, like her initiative to raise money
for Opening Act free theatre programs for high-need New York City public school kids (omaze.com/sjp). Then there are her businesses reflecting her long-standing fashion icon status—an SJP by Sarah Jessica Parker shoe collection with stores in NYC and others opening nationwide, and a new ready-to-wear line, SJP Collection, starting with a “little black dress”—that have had a butterfly effect of success. Parker also recently ventured into a partnership with New Zealand-based Invivo wines to blend and create an eponymous wine collection, starting with a sauvignon blanc this summer. But her favorite work is that as mother of three—twin 10-year-old girls and a 16-year-old son—whom she shares with husband, actor Matthew Broderick. On the day her online SJP Collection went live, we chatted about the growing empire, family included, of SJP, Inc.
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