Yesterday marked the beginning of the Year of the Dragon, and we wanted to seize the opportunity to wish Mary-Louise Parker a happy birthday and note the fact that she’s a Year of the Dragon person, along with Fats Domino, Al Pacino, Sigmund Freud and Florence Nightingale.

Parker is well known to you and I for playing Nancy, the enterprising mom on the hit Showtime series “Weeds”; we nominate her as our favorite Year of the Dragon personality.