Mary Steenburgen

Mary Steenburgen (72)

1953-02-08 | Newport, Arkansas, USA

Mary Nell Steenburgen (born February 8, 1953) is an American actress, comedian, singer, and songwriter. After studying at New York's Neighborhood Playhouse in the 1970s, she made her professional acting debut in the Western comedy film Goin' South (1978). Steenburgen went on to earn critical acclaim for her role in Time After Time (1979) and Jonathan Demme's comedy-drama film Melvin and Howard (1980), for which she won the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress.

On Movies

  • Book Club: The Next Chapter
  • Nightmare Alley
  • Zoey's Extraordinary Christmas
  • Happiest Season
  • 30 Rock: A One-Time Special
  • Antiquities
  • Book Club
  • Katie Says Goodbye
  • I Do... Until I Don't
  • The Discovery
  • The Book of Love
  • Dean
  • Jim Henson's Turkey Hollow
  • A Walk in the Woods
  • 7 Days in Hell
  • The One I Love
  • Song One
  • Last Vegas
  • Brahmin Bulls
  • Outlaw Country
  • Clinton Foundation: Celebrity Division
  • The Help
  • Fight for Your Right Revisited
  • Dirty Girl
  • Weird: The Al Yankovic Story
  • Did You Hear About the Morgans?
  • The Proposal
  • In the Electric Mist
  • The Open Road
  • Four Christmases
  • Step Brothers
  • The Brave One
  • Honeydripper
  • Numb
  • Nobel Son
  • Elvis & Anabelle
  • Inland Empire
  • The Dead Girl
  • Marilyn Hotchkiss' Ballroom Dancing & Charm School
  • It Must Be Love
  • Elf
  • Casa de los Babys
  • Hope Springs
  • Mrs. Pilgrim Goes to Hollywood
  • Sunshine State
  • Wish You Were Dead
  • Living with the Dead
  • I Am Sam
  • Life as a House
  • The Trumpet of the Swan
  • Nobody's Baby
  • Picnic
  • About Sarah
  • The Grass Harp
  • Nixon
  • Powder
  • My Family
  • Pontiac Moon
  • It Runs in the Family
  • Clifford
  • Philadelphia
  • What's Eating Gilbert Grape
  • The Butcher's Wife
  • The Long Walk Home
  • Back to the Future Part III
  • Parenthood
  • Miss Firecracker
  • The Attic: The Hiding of Anne Frank
  • The Whales of August
  • End of the Line
  • Dead of Winter
  • One Magic Christmas
  • Little Red Riding Hood
  • Romantic Comedy
  • Cross Creek
  • A Midsummer Night's Sex Comedy
  • Ragtime
  • Melvin and Howard
  • Time After Time
  • Goin' South

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