Carrie Bradshaw Carrie Bradshaw Caroline Marie “Carrie” Bradshaw (born October 10, 1968) is the protagonist of the HBO franchise "Sex and the City", portrayed by Sarah Jessica Parker. She is a semi-autobiographical character created by Candace Bushnell, whose book "Sex and the City" was adapted into the franchise. Carrie is a New York City columnist and fashionista; her weekly column, "Sex in the City," (reference: S01:E01:24m32s) provides the narration for each episode. In the CW prequel series "The Carrie Diaries", Carrie was portrayed by AnnaSophia Robb. When the series premiered, the character was praised by critics as a positive example of an
Carrie Bradshaw independent woman in the vein of Mary Tyler Moore. However, retrospective analysis tends to place more emphasis on the character's repeated and often unrepentant infidelities, with many critics instead viewing her as narcissistic. Carrie writes a weekly column called "Sex and the City" for fictional newspaper, "The New York Star". The column focuses on Carrie's sexual escapades and those of her close friends, as well as musings about the relationships between men and women, dating, and New York. It provides Carrie with a certain amount of recognition in the city. People who read her column occasionally describe her as their