Andrea Nicole Parker (born March 8, 1969 in Monterey County, California) is an American actress and former ballet dancer. She quit her career in ballet after three years of touring and trained to become an actress while working as a bartender. Andrea Parker got her break in television playing a nurse on the award-winning Seinfeld episode "The Contest" in 1992. Parker says she felt compelled to play the role of the complex, cynical, powerful and intimidating yet somewhat tortured Ice Queen because her name was "all over the script." Parker is also trained as a stunt-driver and can handle firearms.