Do we like Sarah Jessica Parker?
Our score: 8 out of 10. A clean record on harm, public support for the LGBTQ+ community and some quiet kindness, though the sources I could open on her conduct are thin.
Sarah Jessica Parker grew up in Ohio as one of eight kids, in what Biography.com calls relative poverty. She was working as a child performer to help the family, and she played Annie on Broadway at fourteen. That's a long way from the Manolo Blahniks.
Square Pegs, Footloose and a run of film roles came before 1998. Then Carrie Bradshaw in Sex and the City made her a star. She later starred in and produced the HBO series Divorce and built a fashion name with her own shoe line.
On the harm test, she comes out well. In 2018 she said Sex and the City had no women of colour and no real conversation about the LGBTQ community. She put that down to the era, but it's a rare thing for a star to say about their own hit.
In February 2026 she fronted an Instagram video with Andy Cohen after President Trump ordered the Pride flag removed from the Stonewall National Monument. Her line was “Yeah, we want our flag back.” She has also said she's wary of commenting on topics she doesn't feel educated on.
She tells critics who say 'shut up and act' that it's odd the demand only runs one way. Where you land on that depends on how you read it: as a famous person using her platform, or as celebrity politics. Either way, nothing she's said or done in what I read targets anyone.
Her kindness mostly shows up quietly. In 2013 she donated signed shoes and bags to a fundraiser for a Yonkers family who had lost a daughter in a runaway car crash. The Golden Globes also gave her the Carol Burnett Award, which honours work on TV on and off camera.