Parker was born in Nelsonville, Ohio, the daughter of Barbara, a nursery school operator and teacher, and Steven Parker, an entrepreneur and journalist.Her father, a native of Brooklyn, was Jewish, the original family surname being "Bar-Kahn" ("son of Kohen"); Parker has said of herself, "I always just considered myself a Jew".She was one of eight children from her parents' marriage and her mother's second marriage after Parker's parents' divorce.
As a young girl, she trained in singing and ballet, soon being cast in the Broadway revival of William Archibald's The Innocents.Her family moved to Cincinnati, Ohio and then to Dobbs Ferry, New York, near New York City, where Parker was developing her career as a child actress. In 1977, the family moved to the newly opened planned community on Roosevelt Island, in the East River between Manhattan and Queens, and later to Manhattan proper; her parents later moved to Englewood, New Jersey, where Parker attended Dwight Morrow High School.
Parker attended the School for Creative and Performing Arts in Cincinnati, the School of American Ballet, Dwight Morrow High School, and the Professional Children's School, Hollywood High School in Los Angeles, California.
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