Parr met her future husband, actor Nigel Lovell (1916-2001), through the Metropolitan Theatre in Sydney. He was a widower with a daughter. They married in 1956,Engagements: Lovell—Parr, The Sydney Morning Herald, (Saturday, 21 August 1954), p. 56. and had two children, Simon Lovell, a helicopter pilot, and Jenny Lovell, an actor known for her role on the soap opera Prisoner (called Prisoner: Cell Block H in the UK and the USA). The couple eventually divorced.
