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Mary Steenburgen

Born: 1953-02-08

From: Newport, Arkansas, USA

About: 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.

Film credits:

Back to the Future Part III

Clara Clayton

Zoey's Extraordinary Christmas

Maggie Clarke

Parenthood

Karen Buckman

What's Eating Gilbert Grape

Betty Carver

Elf

Emily

Clifford

Sarah Davis

The Brave One

Carol

The Butcher's Wife

Stella Keefover

Nixon

Hannah Nixon

Picnic

Rosemary Sydney

Hope Springs

Joanie Fisher

Wish You Were Dead

Sally Rider

Time After Time

Amy Robbins

A Midsummer Night's Sex Comedy

Adrian

Step Brothers

Nancy Huff

Four Christmases

Marilyn

Ragtime

Mother

The Long Walk Home

Narrator (voice)

Powder

Jessie Caldwell

Goin' South

Julia Tate

One Magic Christmas

Ginny Grainger

The Dead Girl

Leah's Mother

In the Electric Mist

Bootsie Robicheaux

Nightmare Alley

Mrs. Kimball

Fight for Your Right Revisited

Café Patron

Nobel Son

Sarah Michaelson

Casa de los Babys

Gayle

Melvin and Howard

Lynda Dummar

Numb

Dr. Blaine

The Grass Harp

Sister Ida

Nobody's Baby

Estelle

The Proposal

Grace Paxton

The Whales of August

Young Sarah

End of the Line

Rose Pickett

Elvis & Anabelle

Geneva Leigh

Pontiac Moon

Katherine Bellamy

It Runs in the Family

Mrs. Parker (Mother)

Dirty Girl

Peggy

Dead of Winter

Julie Rose / Katie McGovern / Evelyn

The Trumpet of the Swan

Mother (voice)

Marilyn Hotchkiss' Ballroom Dancing & Charm School

Marienne Hotchkiss

Clarkworld

Self

Living with the Dead

Detective Karen Condrin

Sunshine State

Francine Pinkney

Romantic Comedy

Phoebe Craddock

O Lucky Malcolm!

Self

Outlaw Country

Anastasia Lee

Brahmin Bulls

Helen West

The Secrets of the 'Back to the Future' Trilogy

Self

Cross Creek

Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings

Last Vegas

Diana Boyle

Remembering Ragtime

Mother (archive footage)

About Sarah

Sarah Elizabeth McCaffrey

It Must Be Love

Clem Gazelle

Book Club: The Next Chapter

Carol

Song One

Karen Ellis

Miss Firecracker

Elaine Rutledge

Philadelphia

Belinda Conine

7 Days in Hell

Louisa Poole

Last Train to Fortune

Dean

Carol

Dick Van Dyke: 98 Years of Magic

Self

Sanford Meisner: The American Theatre's Best Kept Secret

Self

Did You Hear About the Morgans?

Emma Wheeler

Life as a House

Colleen Beck

Jim Henson's Turkey Hollow

Aunt Cly

The Attic: The Hiding of Anne Frank

Miep Gies

The Book of Love

Julia Mureaux

A Walk in the Woods

Jeannie

Let's Have Kids!

Sue

Weird: The Al Yankovic Story

Mrs. Yankovic

The Open Road

Katherine

I Do... Until I Don't

Cybil Burger

The Help

Elaine Stein

Katie Says Goodbye

Maybelle

Little Red Riding Hood

Little Red Riding Hood a.k.a. Mary

Inland Empire

Visitor #2

I Am Sam

Dr. Blake

The Discovery

Interviewer

Honeydripper

Amanda Winship

Book Club

Carol

Antiquities

Dr. Margot

My Family

Gloria

Flannery

Flannery O'Connor (voice)

The Tulsa Lynching of 1921: A Hidden Story

Tales from the Future

Self

Happiest Season

Tipper

The One I Love

Mom (voice)

Earth and the American Dream

Reader (voice)

30 Rock: A One-Time Special

Mary Steenburgen

The Dink

Clinton Foundation: Celebrity Division

Self

Broadway's Dreamers: The Legacy of the Group Theatre

Self (voice)

Celebrating Betty White: America's Golden Girl

Self

Mrs. Pilgrim Goes to Hollywood

Mary

Easy's Waltz

A Dog’s Perfect Christmas

Back to the Future: Dickens of a Christmas

Clara Clayton Brown (voice)

Elf: Buddy's Sing and Cheer Along Edition

Emily