Parker was born in Machias, Maine and educated at the Emerson College of Expression in Boston.

Her early career was in stage productions included The Country Boy, The Dawn of a To-morrow, and The Governor's Lady.

She most often played mothers, aunts, or older women, such as "Mrs. Peniston" in the first filmed version of Edith Wharton's The House of Mirth (1918).

Spaulding worked for various production companies, but her last role was in MGM Picture's Time the Comedian in 1925.

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