Who is Parker McKenna Posey?
Do you remember the character of Kady Kyle from the series “My Wife and Kids”? The cute little girl with ponytails and a sweet smile, who carried her doll Little Pippy all the time, and while growing up she was shown as sassy and manipulative? Well, if you do remember, and if you ever wondered what happened to the girl who portrayed this character some 20 years ago, let us tell you more about the young and talented actress who stole the hearts of the audience.
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Her name is Parker McKenna Posey, and the mentioned role brought her a nomination for the Young Artist Award for Best Performance in a TV Series (Comedy or Drama) – Young Actress Age Ten or Under, and although she’s still perhaps known best for her role as Kady Kyle, Parker is an actress with over 15 credits to her name, and has been seen starring in numerous series and movies, including “Lucky Girl” and “90 Minutes of the Fever”.
Early life, family, and education
Parker was born under the zodiac sign of Leo on 18 August 1995, in Los Angeles, California USA; she holds American nationality, and her ethnicity is of mixed Irish, Italian, Native American and African-American descent.
Her father, Polo Posey, comes from a family of Native American and African-American descent – his occupation hasn’t been revealed, while her Irish-Italian mother, Heather Stone, is also an actress. Parker has two siblings, Carl and Jewel, but when their parents divorced, their mother remarried, and so Parker also has three half-siblings, namely Jake, Khari and Dilynne, about whom little is known.
Parker had an interest in acting from an early age, and she began performing aged four. Growing up, she discovered her talent in designing, however, an acting career is what she dreamed of.
Speaking of her educational background, she attended a local high school, and upon matriculating in 2013, she didn’t enroll into college but pursued her acting career.
Roles in series
Parker made her acting debut portraying Kady Kyle in the series “My Wife and Kids” in 2000, also starring Damon Wayans, George Gore II and Tisha Campbell, which had 36 award nominations, including for the Young Artist Award for Best Ensemble in a TV Series (Comedy or Drama), which Parker shares with the rest of the crew, and won 11.
Concurrently with her role in “My Wife and Kids” which was broadcast until 2005, Parker was seen in series such as “NYPD Blue” (2001) and “Strong Medicine” (2004), and she was next cast to play Kathy in “iCarly” in 2009.
Parker’s next role came in 2017 when she guest-starred as Melody Wright in “Snowfall”, followed by her role as Laila James in “Games People Play” in 2019, while in the following year, she portrayed Ananda in “Heaux Phase”.
Her most recent role was her portrayal of Summer in the drama series “A House Divided”, from 2020 until 2022.
Roles in movies
Parker made her first big-screen appearance portraying Poppy Frost in the 2005 movie “Meet the Santas”, followed by her role as Elizabeth in the 2007 teenage romantic drama “Alice Upside Down”, also starring Luke Perry, Lucas Garbeel and Alyson Stoner.
Three years later, Parker was cast to play Kery in the TV movie “Summer Camp”, followed by her role as Trisha Meadows in “Lucky Girl” in 2015.
Next, she was seen as Crystal in the 2016 movie “90 Minutes of the Fever”, a science-fiction thriller, which won the Sherman Oaks Film Festival Audience Award for Best Feature Film, which was her most recent movie role.
Her fans will be happy to hear that she’s completed filming of her new movie “We Are Gathered Here Today”, which should be released in 2022, and she also starred in the movie entitled “Conundrum: Secret Among Friends”, which is currently in post-production.
It’s also announced that she will star in William A. Baker’s new movie “This Is Real”, which follows the story of young girls who become obsessed with professional wrestling.
Love life and relationships
There have been various rumors concerning Parker’s love life, and in 2019 her private life came into the limelight after she accused her then-boyfriend, Chris Sails, of beating her, and after she posted a photo featuring herself with a black eye, he came forward to defend himself. In her interview for Madame Noire she said: ‘I can’t give too many details but I can just say that that’s a lie and I’ll just leave it at that. Even if, let’s just remove me from the situation. Let’s remove him from the situation’, adding that it was just a bad period in her life and that now she wants to live a cleaner, healthier life.
‘I came out of that relationship really having to relearn to love myself all over again.
Because for some reason, it was completely gone. I’ve never been that kind of person’ said Parker, and shared with the readers that she is in a new relationship.
However, in some way, it wasn’t a new relationship, since this guy, Jay Jay Wilson, was her high school boyfriend, and as she said, he was the one that she would always come back to after every relationship that she had.
The two aren’t married but are living together, and Jay Jay is known as ‘a baby father’ to her daughter, Harley, who was born in May 2021 – Parker revealed her birth on Instagram by posting a photo featuring herself and the baby-girl on Mother’s Day in 2021.
Parker and Jay Jay are raising their daughter together, and she often shares their joint photos on her Instagram account, while about her partner little is known – he has no social media accounts, thus it’s assumed that he prefers to keep his personal matters away from the public eye.
Age, height, and net worth
Parker’s age is 26 – she has curly, brown hair and brown eyes, weighs around 120lbs (55kgs) and is 5ft 4ins (1.63m) tall, with vital statistics of 33-24-33.
According to sources, as of May 2022, her net worth has been estimated at over $1.5 million, with most of her income earned acting in series and movies.
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