Ripley Parker

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Ripley Parker
Born (2000-12-17) 17 December 2000 (age 23) [1]
Kensal Rise, London, England
OccupationWriter
Years active2019–present
Parents
Relatives Nico Parker (sister)

Ripley Parker (born 17 December 2000) is an English writer. She created the Netflix series Everything Now (2023).

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Early life

Born at home to film director and screenwriter Ol Parker and actress Thandiwe Newton, [2] Parker is from Kensal Rise, North West London. [3] She has a younger sister, Nico, and a younger brother, Booker. In 2017, Newton said that she was proud of her daughter Ripley following an incident where she walked over to Boris Johnson and called him a “cunt” at a West End theatre play. [4] Parker has since admitted it was a “rogue move” but one that she “would make again”. [5]

Career

Ripley contributed an essay to It's Not OK to Feel Blue (and Other Lies): Inspirational People Open Up About Their Mental Health, in 2019. [6] She created the Netflix series Everything Now , formerly known as The Fuck It Bucket. [7] Available on the streaming platform from October 2023, PinkNews described Parker’s depiction of a sixth-former recovering from disordered eating, as “sensitively written”. [8] Parker has discussed this as an area of life she had struggled with as a teenager, and therefore “felt I could speak on with some authority, and that I might have something useful to impart to people”. [5]

Parker is reportedly working on a musical based on the music of The Smiths , and a play about 19th century American poet Emily Dickinson. [9] In March 2023 she was confirmed to be adapting fantasy novel Lies We Sing to the Sea by Sarah Underwood, for film. [10]

Personal life

Her father Ol Parker's script for the 2022 film Ticket to Paradise with Julia Roberts and George Clooney, was reportedly born out of a conversation between him and Ripley. [11]

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