---
name: "Laurie Parker"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/laurie-parker"
fi1m_id: "laurie-parker"
imdb_id: "nm0662435"
tmdb_id: 512
roles: ["Producer"]
reviewed_on_fi1m: 3
average_fi1m_score: 79
average_as: "producer"
average_over: 3
updated: "2026-09-26T02:00:34.868928+00:00"
licence: "© Fi1m Ltd. Written by AI under a human editor; checked against sources before publication. Quote with attribution and a link to the canonical URL."
---

# Laurie Parker

## Identity

Laurie Parker

- **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/laurie-parker
- **Type:** Person
- **Fi1m ID:** laurie-parker
- **IMDb ID:** nm0662435
- **TMDB ID:** 512
- **Same entity:** https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0662435/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/512

Producer.

## Details

- **Work:** Producer
- **Active:** 1989–1991
- **Average Fi1m score:** 79, as producer, over 3 titles
- **Fi1m score by decade:** 1980s 83 (1), 1990s 77 (2)
- **Fi1m against the critics:** 79 to 71 across 3 titles
- **Score spread:** 2 at 80+, 1 at 60–79, 0 under 60
- **Genres:** Drama 3, Crime 1, Fantasy 1, Mystery 1, Thriller 1
- **Screen time:** 5 hours of reviewed films
- **Box office:** $12m across 3 films with figures
- **Elsewhere:** https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0662435/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/512

## Biography

Laurie Parker is a film producer. She trained in the Directors Guild of America's unit production manager and assistant director programme before entering the industry in the mid-1980s.

She worked at Samuel Goldwyn Company and later at Island Alive, where she became vice president of marketing and then vice president of production. In 1987 she joined Avenue Entertainment as vice president of production and served as executive in charge of production on Gus Van Sant's *Drugstore Cowboy* (1989). Her first credit as an independent producer was Van Sant's *My Own Private Idaho* (1991). She also produced Van Sant's *Even Cowgirls Get the Blues* (1994) and Jane Campion's *In the Cut* (2003), among other films.

Parker received the Producers Guild of America award for Most Promising Producer in Theatrical Motion Pictures for *My Own Private Idaho*.

*Sources: imdb.com, rottentomatoes.com, catalog.afi.com, criterion.com, en.wikipedia.org.*

## On Fi1m (3)

- *My Own Private Idaho* (1991), Fi1m 82, Producer — [page](https://film.one/film/my-own-private-idaho.md)
- *The Rapture* (1991), Fi1m 72, Executive Producer — [page](https://film.one/film/the-rapture.md)
- *Drugstore Cowboy* (1989), Fi1m 83, Production Executive — [page](https://film.one/film/drugstore-cowboy.md)

## Complete filmography (12)

Every credit, newest first. Titles without a page can be requested for review on the HTML page.

- *Cárcel de árboles* (2015), Writer
- *The Vintner's Luck* (2009), Producer
- *We Don't Live Here Anymore* (2004), Music Supervisor
- *What Sebastian Dreamt* (2004), Producer, Music Supervisor
- *In the Cut* (2003), Producer
- *The Making of Drugstore Cowboy* (1999), Producer
- *Rough Magic* (1995), Producer
- *Even Cowgirls Get the Blues* (1994), Producer
- *Afraid of the Dark* (1991), Executive Producer
- *The Rapture* (1991), Executive Producer — Fi1m 72, [page](https://film.one/film/the-rapture.md)
- *My Own Private Idaho* (1991), Producer — Fi1m 82, [page](https://film.one/film/my-own-private-idaho.md)
- *Drugstore Cowboy* (1989), Production Executive — Fi1m 83, [page](https://film.one/film/drugstore-cowboy.md)

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