Parker receives prize, ponders future

The iconic actor reflects on Globes honor, her 52-year career and books.

- BY SCARLETT HARRIS

“It feels like a punctuation mark that feels appropriate,” Sarah Jessica Parker tells The Times the day before receiving the Golden Globes’ Carol Burnett Award. “Not that I should even be getting this.”

There’s that trademark self-deprecating tone she shares with Carrie Bradshaw, her most indelible character that she played for the better part of three decades, first in “Sex and the City,” which ran for six seasons on HBO in the late 1990s and early 2000s, then in the reboot “And Just Like That...” which concluded last year after its third season.

The Carol Burnett Award, presented at the “Golden Eve” special airing Thursday as part of the Globes’ “Golden Week” celebrations, honors excellence in television, which, for Parker, extends beyond the “Sex and the City” universe and into roles on “Square Pegs,” “Glee” and “Divorce.” In fact, she got her start at the age of 8 as the titular “Little Match Girl” on NBC's “Young People’s Specials.”

Parker relishes the opportunity “to be forced to look at the last 52 years and to appreciate forevermore the journeyman, in many ways, career that I've been able to have” — even if she’s a little bit daunted by the prospect.

In addition to receiving the Globes honor, Parker spent 2025 judging the Booker Prize, for which she read 153 books. She also has a production company, Pretty Matches, which produced “And Just Like That...” and the new “The Family Stone” sequel.

This interview has been lightly edited and condensed for length and clarity.

It’s been a big year for you, with the final season of “and Just Like That...” and judging the Booker Prize. This must be a nice way to cap it off with the Carol Burnett Award.

It’s not a typical book-ender, that’s for sure! I felt very content and grateful for the year. This is extraordinary and I’m deeply humbled. It’s a lovely and generous gesture from the Golden Globes.