- Was raised by her mother Lynne, a teacher from Monsterrat, after her father, from Dominica, walked out on the family when Parish was 8-years-old. She did not see nor speak to her father for a further 20 years.
- Gave birth to her 1st child at age 35, a daughter Kenya in September 2005.
- Both she and Tameka Empson have played Leah Russell in different productions of "Beautiful Thing"; Parish in the 1994 West End production and Empson in the 1996 film version (Beautiful Thing (1996)). Parish and Empson play sisters on the soap opera EastEnders (1985).
- Trained at London's Royal Academy of Dramatic Art (RADA).
- Returned to work 6 months after giving birth to her daughter Kenya in order to begin filming EastEnders (1985).
- Gave birth to her 2nd child at age 38, a daughter Kaya on December 2, 2007.
- Was 8 months pregnant with her daughter Kaya when she went on maternity leave from filming EastEnders (1985).
- Returned to work 4 months after giving birth to her daughter Kaya to resume filming EastEnders (1985).
- Is best friends with Lindsey Coulson and Maggie O'Neill.
- Her partner Sebastian, whom she has been in a relationship with since 2001, proposed to her on her 38th birthday (November 2007).
- Ranked #40 in the 100 Greatest EastEnders (1985) Characters of All Time for her performance as Denise Fox (2015).
- As of 2020 she is the 8th-longest serving actress on the history of EastEnders (1985) (tied with Linda Henry, and behind only June Brown, Pam St. Clement, Letitia Dean, Wendy Richard, a tied Gillian Taylforth and Natalie Cassidy, a tied Barbara Windsor and Laila Morse, and Gillian Wright), having played the character Denise Fox for 14 years (from 2006 onwards).
- Her favourite film is The Fugitive Kind (1960).
- Has 2 older brothers.
- Starred in London's West End production of "The Vagina Monologues" (2005).
- Was in attendance at the wedding of her EastEnders (1985) co-star Samantha Womack to Mark Womack on May 17, 2009.
- Is a close friend of EastEnders (1985) co-star Rita Simons.
- Her EastEnders (1985) character Denise Fox became the 32nd woman on the soap opera to give birth. Denise had a son Raymond (played by Michael Jose Pomares Calixte), born on January 13, 2017.
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