Mary Steenburgen

Personal Info

Known For:
Acting

Birthday:
February 8, 1953

Place of Birth:
Newport, Arkansas, USA

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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.

Known For

Filmography

Year Movie Role
2023 Book Club: The Next Chapter Carol
2023 Dick Van Dyke: 98 Years of Magic Self
2022 Celebrating Betty White: America's Golden Girl Self
2021 Zoey's Extraordinary Christmas Maggie Clarke
2021 Nightmare Alley Mrs. Kimball
2020 Happiest Season Tipper
2020 30 Rock: A One-Time Special Mary Steenburgen
2019 Antiquities Dr. Margot
2019 Flannery Flannery O'Connor (voice)
2018 Katie Says Goodbye Maybelle
2018 Book Club Carol
2017 The Book of Love Julia Mureaux
2017 I Do... Until I Don't Cybil Burger
2017 The Discovery Interviewer
2016 Dean Carol
2015 7 Days in Hell Louisa Poole
2015 Jim Henson's Turkey Hollow Aunt Cly
2015 A Walk in the Woods Jeannie
2014 Song One Karen Ellis
2014 The One I Love Mom (voice)
2013 Brahmin Bulls Helen West
2013 Last Vegas Diana Boyle
2012 Outlaw Country Anastasia Lee
2011 Fight for Your Right Revisited Café Patron
2011 The Help Elaine Stein
2011 Clinton Foundation: Celebrity Division Self
2010 Dirty Girl Peggy
2010 Weird: The Al Yankovic Story Mrs. Yankovic
2010 Tales from the Future Self
2009 In the Electric Mist Bootsie Robicheaux
2009 The Proposal Grace Paxton
2009 Clarkworld Self
2009 Did You Hear About the Morgans? Emma Wheeler
2009 The Open Road Katherine
2008 Step Brothers Nancy Huff
2008 Four Christmases Marilyn
2007 The Brave One Carol
2007 Nobel Son Sarah Michaelson
2007 Numb Dr. Blaine
2007 Elvis & Anabelle Geneva Leigh
2007 Honeydripper Amanda Winship
2006 The Dead Girl Beverley, Leah's Mother
2006 Marilyn Hotchkiss' Ballroom Dancing & Charm School Marienne Hotchkiss
2006 O Lucky Malcolm! Self
2006 Inland Empire Visitor #2
2004 Remembering Ragtime Mother (archive footage)
2004 It Must Be Love
2003 Elf Emily
2003 Hope Springs Joanie Fisher
2003 Casa de los Babys Gayle
2003 Mrs. Pilgrim Goes to Hollywood Mary
2002 Wish You Were Dead Sally Rider
2002 Living with the Dead Detective Karen Condrin
2002 Sunshine State Francine Pinkney
2001 Nobody's Baby Estelle
2001 The Trumpet of the Swan Mother (voice)
2001 Life as a House Colleen Beck
2001 I Am Sam Dr. Blake
2000 Picnic Rosemary Sydney
2000 The Tulsa Lynching of 1921: A Hidden Story
1998 About Sarah Sarah Elizabeth McCaffrey
1996 The Grass Harp Sister Ida
1995 Nixon Hannah Nixon
1995 Powder Jessie Caldwell
1995 My Family Gloria
1994 Clifford Sarah Davis
1994 Pontiac Moon Katherine Bellamy
1994 It Runs in the Family Mrs. Parker (Mother)
1993 What's Eating Gilbert Grape Betty Carver
1993 Philadelphia Belinda Conine
1992 Earth and the American Dream Reader (voice)
1991 The Butcher's Wife Stella Keefover
1990 Back to the Future Part III Clara Clayton
1990 The Long Walk Home Narrator (voice)
1990 The Secrets of the 'Back to the Future' Trilogy Self
1990 Sanford Meisner: The American Theatre's Best Kept Secret Self
1989 Parenthood Karen Buckman
1989 Miss Firecracker Elaine Rutledge
1989 Broadway's Dreamers: The Legacy of the Group Theatre Herself
1988 The Attic: The Hiding of Anne Frank Miep Gies
1987 The Whales of August Young Sarah
1987 End of the Line Rose Pickett
1987 Dead of Winter Julie Rose / Katie McGovern / Evelyn
1985 One Magic Christmas Ginny Grainger
1983 Romantic Comedy Phoebe Craddock
1983 Cross Creek Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings
1983 Little Red Riding Hood Little Red Riding Hood a.k.a. Mary
1982 A Midsummer Night's Sex Comedy Adrian
1981 Ragtime Mother
1980 Melvin and Howard Lynda Dummar
1979 Time After Time Amy Robbins
1978 Goin' South Julia Tate
Last Train to Fortune
Let's Have Kids!
The Dink
Year TV Show Role
2025 BULLDOZER Kathy
2024 In the Kitchen with Harry Hamlin Self
2021 Mr. Mayor Adriana
2020 Stars in the House Self
2020 Zoey's Extraordinary Playlist Maggie Clarke
2020 Reunited Apart Self
2019 Bless the Harts Crystalynn (voice)
2019 The Kelly Clarkson Show Self
2019 On Becoming a God in Central Florida Ellen Joy Bonar
2018 The Conners Marcy Bellinger
2016 The Good Place Teacher
2015 The Last Man on Earth Gail Klosterman
2015 Togetherness Linda
2015 Grace and Frankie Miriam
2014 Late Night with Seth Meyers Self
2013 Orange Is the New Black Delia Powell
2012 Finding Your Roots Self
2011 Wilfred Catherine Newman
2010 Justified Katherine Hale
2009 Watch What Happens Live with Andy Cohen Self - Guest
2006 30 Rock Diana Jessup
2005 The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson Self
2004 The Tony Danza Show Self - Guest
2003 Joan of Arcadia Helen Girardi
2003 E!'s 101 Self
2002 Living with the Dead Detective Karen Condrin
2001 Dinner for Five
2001 Good Day Live Self
2000 Curb Your Enthusiasm Mary Steenburgen
1999 Law & Order: Special Victims Unit Grace Rinato
1999 Noah's Ark Naamah
1998 Becker Patient (uncredited)
1997 The View Self
1996 Ink Kate Montgomery
1996 Gulliver's Travels Mary Gulliver
1994 Ellen Self (uncredited)
1993 Frasier Marjorie (voice)
1992 Shelley Duvall's Bedtime Stories Narrator (Voice)
1991 Back to the Future Clara Clayton (voice)
1985 Tender Is the Night Nicole Warren Diver
1982 Faerie Tale Theatre Mary / Little Red Riding Hood
1953 The Oscars Self
Happiness Isn't Everything Audrey Veill
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