Lara Parker

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Lara Parker was born Mary Lamar Rickey in Knoxville, Tennessee on October 27, 1940. A graduate of Rhodes College and the University of Iowa with Masters Degree in the arts, she is a film and television actress best known as the witch named Angelique on the cult ABC-TV serial Dark Shadows which aired from 1966-1971. TV fans will recall her playing the role of "Laura Banner" in the opening sequence of the pilot of the TV series The Incredible Hulk (1977) and the fashion model/witch "Madelaine" in the Kolchak: The Night Stalker episode "The Trevi Collection". Other appearances on TV include Kung Fu, Kojak, Quincy M.E., Hawaii Five-O, The Rockford Files, Highway to Heaven, the CBS daytime serial Capitol and the ABC daytime serial One Life to Live. Parker's best known movie role was in the Jack Lemmon oscar-winning drama "Save The Tiger" in 1973. Parker played a sympathetic hooker who is devastated when her client suffers a near fatal heart attack.

In 1998, Parker published a novel, Angelique's Descent, and its sequel, Dark Shadows: The Salem Branch, released in July of 2006. She has recently reprised the role of Angelique for a new series of Dark Shadows audio dramas from Big Finish Productions and is the reader for the audiobook recording of her novel Angelique's Descent (also released by Big Finish Productions).