Her name-sake twin!
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Archived from the IMDb Discussion Forums — Parker McKenna Posey
Goldrushed — 21 years ago(September 21, 2004 02:05 PM)
There is another Parker Posey who is much older and has been in such films as You've Got Mail. It's strange that they have the exact same name since it's quite unique.
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Park_Place — 21 years ago(February 22, 2005 10:52 AM)
What do you mean, it's strange? It's obvious that McKenna's
parents decided to steal the name. Parker Posey (the original)
was already establishing her name in 1995. As a fan of Parker
Posey I think this name theft is really lame. Why didn't McKenna's
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serafinak — 18 years ago(May 09, 2007 11:26 PM)
Even if she was named after her aunt, and her father's surname really is Posey, the older PP was already well-known when they were naming the young PMP. They had to have known. If my last name was Pitt, I wouldn't name my 2000son Brad.
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MissCinnamon — 18 years ago(May 10, 2007 01:34 AM)
I know for a fact that they didn't know until after they had named her. Parker Posey isn't as famous as Brad Pitt, not everybody knows who she is.
Also, even if they had known, they weren't to know Parker was going to act. Everybody has the freedom to name their kid whatever they like and to keep their name. They shouldn't have to change it or have people telling them they should, just because somebody else shares it. -
YouTube-YourEarsHear — 18 years ago(March 24, 2008 02:34 PM)
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psharma — 18 years ago(May 23, 2007 11:48 AM)
I love it how all the Parker Posey fans think that PP was a well established name in 1995 and thus PMP's parents must have committed name-theft. Puhlease! Nobody except her obsessed fans even knew who the heck PP was at the time. I didn't even know her name until "Best in Show" and one of those Scream movies, and I watch alot of movies. She's a good actress and all, but c'mon, the only prolific and noteworthy thing about Parker Posey is her name, so please stop being so pretentious and thinking that everyone must've known who she is. Actually, since her name IS the only noteworthy thing, I can see why her fans are upset that there is another.
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Gabe1972 — 15 years ago(April 07, 2011 04:41 PM)
The reason why people speculate this is because the name is very unusual. Parker, as a first name, is probably even more unusual, and the older actress was named Parker after someone else's LAST name being Parker, so for someone to have such an unusual combination of names, and then have another person named the exact unusual name (not the middle name) is why. Whether she was originally going to be an actress or not is not the issue. The older actress was already an established indy actress and her name was out ther.
It would almost be like there being another person named Whoopi Goldberg. If someone nowadays was named that, and I'm sure there is, would you say, "Oh, it's just a coincidence, because they were born before "Ghost" came out"? I wouldn't buy it and neither would anyone else, including you. Just because you didn't know the actress in the 1995 doesn't mean other people didn't. And she was in a few popular movies before 1995. Ever heard of Coneheads? Dazed and Confused? Sleep With Me?
Parker Posey is too unusual of a name for it to be just a coincidence. I still think, no matter what people say, they had probably seen the actress or heard of the actress's name from somewhere, and thought it was an interesting name for their child. Again, it is just too unusual and too coincidental.
I'm sure if I said my last name was Kaplan, I had been born in 1978, and told people it would just a coincidence, there isn't a person that would buy it.
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christopherj_l — 18 years ago(December 01, 2007 03:45 PM)
What in the hell is wrong with you. She is a child. Do you really think she had a say in it?
All you people thinking this is name theft should put down the bong and get a life. Names are free. Do you think that every puerto rican with the name Jesus is a thief?
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