Karyn Parsons Movies and Career Information

Karyn Parsons (born October 8, 1966) is an American television and film actress and model best known for the role of Hilary Banks on the NBC sitcom The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air. Parsons was born in Los Angeles, California to Louise Hubert, and Kenneth B. Parsons. Louise Hubert is French- Canadian and Kenneth B. Parsons is Trinidadan. She attended Santa Monica High School. Parsons is known for her role as Hilary Banks on the sitcom The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air, which ran from 1990 to 1996. She co-created, co-produced and co-starred in the sitcom Lush Life in 1996, which was later canceled. In 2001, she starred in the critically acclaimed but short-lived television series The Job with Denis Leary. Besides television, Parsons has also starred in several films, particularly in comedies such as Late Nights (1992), Major Payne (1995) and The Ladies Man (2000). Parsons' current project is Sweet Blackberry, producing a line of animated films about unsung black heroes. The first in the series is about Henry Box Brown, a slave who mailed himself to freedom. Parsons' first marriage was to The Young and the Restless actor Randy Brooks, but they later divorced in the '90s. Parsons remarried to