Mary Steenburgen

Personal Info

Know For

Acting

Gender

Female

Birthday

1953-02-08 (72 years old)

Place of Birth

Newport, Arkansas, USA

Mary Steenburgen

Biography

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.

Acting

1990

2021

1989

Parenthood

as Karen Buckman

1993

2003

Elf

as Emily

1994

Clifford

as Sarah Davis

2007

1991

The Butcher's Wife

as Stella Keefover

1995

Nixon

as Hannah Nixon

2000

Picnic

as Rosemary Sydney

2003

Hope Springs

as Joanie Fisher

2002

Wish You Were Dead

as Sally Rider

1979

Time After Time

as Amy Robbins

2008

Step Brothers

as Nancy Huff

2008

1981

Ragtime

as Mother

1990

The Long Walk Home

as Narrator (voice)

1995

Powder

as Jessie Caldwell

1978

Goin' South

as Julia Tate

1985

One Magic Christmas

as Ginny Grainger

2006

The Dead Girl

as Beverley, Leah's Mother

2009

In the Electric Mist

as Bootsie Robicheaux

2021

Nightmare Alley

as Mrs. Kimball

2007

Nobel Son

as Sarah Michaelson

2003

1980

Melvin and Howard

as Lynda Dummar

2007

Numb

as Dr. Blaine

1996

The Grass Harp

as Sister Ida

2001

Nobody's Baby

as Estelle

2009

The Proposal

as Grace Paxton

1987

The Whales of August

as Young Sarah

1987

End of the Line

as Rose Pickett

2007

Elvis & Anabelle

as Geneva Leigh

1994

Pontiac Moon

as Katherine Bellamy

1994

It Runs in the Family

as Mrs. Parker (Mother)

2010

Dirty Girl

as Peggy

1987

Dead of Winter

as Julie Rose / Katie McGovern / Evelyn

2001

The Trumpet of the Swan

as Mother (voice)

2009

Clarkworld

as Self

2002

Living with the Dead

as Detective Karen Condrin

2002

Sunshine State

as Francine Pinkney

1983

Romantic Comedy

as Phoebe Craddock

2006

2012

Outlaw Country

as Anastasia Lee

2013

Brahmin Bulls

as Helen West

1983

Cross Creek

as Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings

2013

Last Vegas

as Diana Boyle

2004

Remembering Ragtime

as Mother (archive footage)

1998

About Sarah

as Sarah Elizabeth McCaffrey

2004

It Must Be Love

as Clem Gazelle

2014

Song One

as Karen Ellis

1989

Miss Firecracker

as Elaine Rutledge

1993

Philadelphia

as Belinda Conine

2015

7 Days in Hell

as Louisa Poole

2016

Dean

as Carol

2001

Life as a House

as Colleen Beck

2017

The Book of Love

as Julia Mureaux

2015

2010

2009

The Open Road

as Katherine

2017

I Do... Until I Don't

as Cybil Burger

2011

The Help

as Elaine Stein

2018

1983

Little Red Riding Hood

as Little Red Riding Hood a.k.a. Mary

2006

Inland Empire

as Visitor #2

2001

I Am Sam

as Dr. Blake

2017

The Discovery

as Interviewer

2007

Honeydripper

as Amanda Winship

2018

Book Club

as Carol

2019

Antiquities

as Dr. Margot

1995

My Family

as Gloria

2019

Flannery

as Flannery O'Connor (voice)

2020

2014

The One I Love

as Mom (voice)

1992

2020

30 Rock: A One-Time Special

as Mary Steenburgen

Production

2014

1987

End of the Line

as Executive Producer

2006

Bye Bye Benjamin

as Executive Producer

2020

Best Summer Ever

as Executive Producer

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