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House Of Cards

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Jackie Sharp (molly parker) has what Washington wants in a rising politician: she’s young, ruthless, female, a war hero and clean as a whistle. but it’s not long before frank Underwood’s (kevin Spacey) protégé and new majority whip makes dodgy choices and hops into bed with political puppetmast­er Raymond tusk’s (gerald mcRaney) right-hand man Remy (mahershala ali). fortunatel­y molly cuts a cleaner path in her own rise to the top.

molly’s parents raised her and her younger brother henry on their “hippie” farm in Vancouver, Canada and made a living selling seafood. molly trained as a ballerina for 13 years, then she persuaded her uncle’s acting agent to take her on as a client when she was just 15. now, of course, molly’s famous and her uncle’s name isn’t even on the internet. the 42-year-old’s first onscreen sex scene, in the 1996 Canadian movie kissed, was with a dead guy (the crew used a mannequin – not a real corpse). her character Sandra was a necrophili­ac. You may recognise Canadian-born molly from deadwood (2004-2006) – she played widow alma garret. She also played the sexy rabbi in Six feet Under in 2002. Or if you’re a boardwalk Empire fan, her portrait was used for the photo of nucky’s wife in the show’s first episode back in 2010. She had her son William Strummer bissonnett­e on 13 October 2006 – molly was pregnant while filming the third season of deadwood and said that her pregnancy made her notice how bad everyone and everything smelled on set. before auditionin­g for her current role, molly binge-watched season 1 of house Of Cards (2013-current) and says that “i watched it in three days… pretty much like everybody else”. She says of her co-star kevin, “he’s funny and jokes around, but when he’s playing francis, he’s terrifying.”

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dealer Jackie Sharp.
Molly’s marvellous in her role as political wheeler dealer Jackie Sharp.

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