
Mary Steenburgen
Born: 1953-02-08
Place of Birth: Newport, Arkansas, USA
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

The Proposal
2009★ 7.2

The Help
2011★ 8.2

Back to the Future Part III
1990★ 7.5

Elf
2003★ 6.7

What's Eating Gilbert Grape
1993★ 7.7

Book Club
2018★ 6.2

Powder
1995★ 7.0

Step Brothers
2008★ 6.6

Philadelphia
1993★ 7.7

I Am Sam
2001★ 7.6

Nightmare Alley
2021★ 7.0

Last Vegas
2013★ 6.4

Four Christmases
2008★ 5.8

Nixon
1995★ 6.9

Ragtime
1981★ 7.0

Romantic Comedy
1983★ 5.0

Dirty Girl
2010★ 6.0

Goin' South
1978★ 5.8

Picnic
2000★ 3.7

Elvis & Anabelle
2007★ 6.8

About Sarah
1998★ 6.0

Numb
2007★ 5.9

Remembering Ragtime
2004★ 0.0

Happiest Season
2020★ 7.1

Cross Creek
1983★ 6.6

Parenthood
1989★ 6.7

Sunshine State
2002★ 6.3

The Brave One
2007★ 6.6

My Family
1995★ 7.4

Honeydripper
2007★ 5.9

Inland Empire
2006★ 7.0

Did You Hear About the Morgans?
2009★ 5.4

Clarkworld
2009★ 10.0

A Midsummer Night's Sex Comedy
1982★ 6.5

Book Club: The Next Chapter
2023★ 6.3

The Long Walk Home
1990★ 7.6

Outlaw Country
2012★ 6.0

Antiquities
2019★ 4.3

The One I Love
2014★ 6.9

Time After Time
1979★ 6.8

Dead of Winter
1987★ 6.0

A Walk in the Woods
2015★ 6.1

Life as a House
2001★ 7.1

The Discovery
2017★ 6.3

The Butcher's Wife
1991★ 5.7

In the Electric Mist
2009★ 6.1

Let's Have Kids!
N/A★ 0.0

Flannery
2019★ 0.0

The Dead Girl
2006★ 6.0

One Magic Christmas
1985★ 5.8

Melvin and Howard
1980★ 6.4

Wish You Were Dead
2002★ 4.9

The Trumpet of the Swan
2001★ 5.6

Last Train to Fortune
2025★ 0.0

The Book of Love
2017★ 6.5

The Grass Harp
1996★ 5.8

7 Days in Hell
2015★ 6.5

Hope Springs
2003★ 5.3

Zoey's Extraordinary Christmas
2021★ 6.4

Clifford
1994★ 5.1

Song One
2014★ 5.7

Marilyn Hotchkiss' Ballroom Dancing & Charm School
2006★ 5.9

Earth and the American Dream
1992★ 6.7

Fight for Your Right Revisited
2011★ 6.5

Nobel Son
2007★ 6.0

Dick Van Dyke: 98 Years of Magic
2023★ 7.8

Nobody's Baby
2001★ 5.1

The Whales of August
1987★ 7.0

Dean
2016★ 5.8

30 Rock: A One-Time Special
2020★ 5.6

Katie Says Goodbye
2018★ 6.5

I Do... Until I Don't
2017★ 4.8

Jim Henson's Turkey Hollow
2015★ 5.5

Tales from the Future
2010★ 6.7

End of the Line
1987★ 5.2

Miss Firecracker
1989★ 5.6

It Must Be Love
2004★ 4.4

Living with the Dead
2002★ 5.3

The Open Road
2009★ 5.2

Casa de los Babys
2003★ 5.4

Easy's Waltz
2025★ 2.0

Weird: The Al Yankovic Story
2010★ 6.6

Mrs. Pilgrim Goes to Hollywood
2003★ 0.0

Pontiac Moon
1994★ 5.4

It Runs in the Family
1994★ 5.4

Celebrating Betty White: America's Golden Girl
2022★ 9.5

Little Red Riding Hood
1983★ 6.3

The Secrets of the 'Back to the Future' Trilogy
1990★ 4.8

The Tulsa Lynching of 1921: A Hidden Story
2000★ 0.0

Brahmin Bulls
2013★ 5.0

O Lucky Malcolm!
2006★ 6.7

The Attic: The Hiding of Anne Frank
1988★ 6.5

Back to the Future: Dickens of a Christmas
1991★ 0.0

Elf: Buddy's Sing and Cheer Along Edition
2018★ 0.0