Sarah Jessica Parker is known for her iconic roles in Sex and the City and Hocus Pocus,but she’s not the only creative one in her family.
Many of her seven siblings — Rachel, Timothy and Pippin Parker, and Allegra, Megan, Andrew and Aaron Forste — are involved in movies and theater.
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Sarah’s parents, Stephen Parker and Barbra Forste (then Parker) had four children together: Timothy, Sarah, Pippin and Rachel. Per the Los Angeles Times, Sarah’s parents divorced when she was a toddler, and Barbra married Paul Forste in 1969. Together, they had four children: Megan, Aaron, Andrew and Allegra.
The actress joked in a 2008 interview with Parade that her career was a result of not getting enough attention as a child because there were so many kids in her family.
“A few years ago, I found all our baby books,” she recalled. “My two older brothers’ baby books were filled with pictures. Then we found mine, and it only had my name written in it. There was nothing else in there. Not one picture … I’ve been starved for attention ever since!”
Here is everything to know about Sarah Jessica Parker’s brothers and sisters.
Sarah has talked about her family’s financial struggles
With such a large family, Sarah has said her parents had to work hard to make ends meet.
‘’I remember my childhood as Dickensian,’’ Sarah told New York Times in 2000. ‘’I remember being poor. There was no great way to hide it. We didn’t have electricity sometimes. We didn’t have Christmases sometimes … or the bill collectors came…”
Despite these memories, Sarah told the newspaper that she looks back fondly on her childhood.
Barbra intentionally raised a creative family
Sarah has said that Barbra always encouraged her children toward creative pursuits, taking them to museums and enrolling them in fine arts classes.
‘’The theater and ballet were not about money,’’ Sarah told The New York Times in 2000. ‘’It was about this grand idea of who we were as a family.’’
“She [my mother] wanted to raise a family that had grand and important lives,” the actress continued. “It was weird because we were living in all this chaos, but her image was actually a great motivator.’’
Many of the Parker and Forste kids acted professionally when they were young. Rachel, Timothy, Andrew and Sarah appeared together in The Sound of Music in 1977, and Sarah went on to land the lead role in on Broadway in 1979 when she was 14.
“I would like to say that I was absolutely not a stage mother,” Barbra told The New York Times in 2000. “But on some level I was. What the children did was pretty much under our control. But any of the kids that did not want to act didn’t do it.”
Timothy has acted with Sarah
Timothy, who also goes by Toby, has a career in theater and film.
He first appeared on stage in The Innocents with Sarah in 1976, in what was also her first theater role. The pair acted together again in The Sound of Music a year later.
As an adult, he appeared in the original cast of Rent and in Wicked on Broadway. Timothy also acted in TV shows, including House of Cards and Law & Order. The actor even worked with Sarah on her show Divorce, appearing in four episodes of the HBO show in 2019.
Pippin has a career in theater
Pippin has been teaching at the New School for Drama since 2004 and was once the dean of the writing, acting and directing program there.
In addition to his career as a professor, Pippin has directed many plays, including Betrayed and Knickerbocker. He has also authored plays like Anesthesia and Assisted Living and the radio play A Gift, which aired on NPR.
Rachel has worked in medicine
One of the few siblings who doesn’t work in entertainment, Rachel worked as a physician’s assistant.
In a 2004 O Magazine interview, Oprah asked Sarah about the women she admired and Sarah answered, “My sister Rachel, who’s a physician’s assistant and a really decent person.”
The actress continued, “She specializes in heart surgery. No one mentions her name in a newspaper, but she literally saves people’s lives all day long.”
Timothy and Pippin started a theater company together
In 1986, Timothy and Pippin helped to found Naked Angels, a theater company in New York City intended to be “an open environment for expression, experimentation, and production,” according to their website.
The founding members included Gina Gershon, Lili Taylor, Nancy Travis and Marisa Tomei — plus Sarah and her eventual husband Matthew Broderick.
In fact, Naked Angels is how Sarah met Broderick. Though they were both founders, the two didn’t work together until Broderick directed a play with the theater company and became friendly with Timothy and Pippin, according to The New York Times. He finally met Sarah in November 1991. They married in 1997, in a ceremony where she famously wore black.
Andrew also works in theater
Andrew works behind the scenes for staged productions on- and off-broadway
He has been co-owner of the prop-making company Propaganda since 2013, per his LinkedIn bio. Andrew is also head of props at the Stephen Sondheim Theatre in N.Y.C., a position he’s held since 2009.
Sarah has credited her upbringing with influencing her parenting
Even though Sarah has talked about her family’s struggles, the actress has also shared the positive impacts of her childhood.
“I was never spoiled,” she said. “I was the baby of the family only for a wee time, and I was lucky to get any attention, let alone be spoiled.”
The Family Stone actress continued, “I was really lucky. I think that if I had been raised a child of privilege, I wouldn’t be the working person I am today. I have a great appreciation for work.”
Sarah said she carried the lessons of her childhood into raising her own kids, 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 me to really stress and to show James Wilkie by example what it means to owe your community something and that he is not entitled to the benefits of our hard work,” Sarah said. “That doesn’t mean that I’m withholding or keeping from him the joys of childhood. But I also don’t want him to think the world he lives in is the real world.”
