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

Clara Clayton

Back to the Future Part III

Maggie Clarke

Zoey's Extraordinary Christmas

Karen Buckman

Parenthood

Betty Carver

What's Eating Gilbert Grape

Emily

Elf

Sarah Davis

Clifford

Carol

The Brave One

Stella Keefover

The Butcher's Wife

Hannah Nixon

Nixon

Rosemary Sydney

Picnic

Joanie Fisher

Hope Springs

Sally Rider

Wish You Were Dead

Amy Robbins

Time After Time

Adrian

A Midsummer Night's Sex Comedy

Nancy Huff

Step Brothers

Marilyn

Four Christmases

Mother

Ragtime

Narrator (voice)

The Long Walk Home

Jessie Caldwell

Powder

Julia Tate

Goin' South

Ginny Grainger

One Magic Christmas

Beverley, Leah's Mother

The Dead Girl

Bootsie Robicheaux

In the Electric Mist

Mrs. Kimball

Nightmare Alley

Café Patron

Fight for Your Right Revisited

Sarah Michaelson

Nobel Son

Gayle

Casa de los Babys

Lynda Dummar

Melvin and Howard

Dr. Blaine

Numb

Sister Ida

The Grass Harp

Estelle

Nobody's Baby

Grace Paxton

The Proposal

Young Sarah

The Whales of August

Rose Pickett

End of the Line

Geneva Leigh

Elvis & Anabelle

Katherine Bellamy

Pontiac Moon

Mrs. Parker (Mother)

It Runs in the Family

Peggy

Dirty Girl

Julie Rose / Katie McGovern / Evelyn

Dead of Winter

Mother (voice)

The Trumpet of the Swan

Marienne Hotchkiss

Marilyn Hotchkiss' Ballroom Dancing & Charm School

Self

Clarkworld

Detective Karen Condrin

Living with the Dead

Francine Pinkney

Sunshine State

Phoebe Craddock

Romantic Comedy

Self

O Lucky Malcolm!

Anastasia Lee

Outlaw Country

Helen West

Brahmin Bulls

Self

The Secrets of the 'Back to the Future' Trilogy

Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings

Cross Creek

Diana Boyle

Last Vegas

Mother (archive footage)

Remembering Ragtime

Sarah Elizabeth McCaffrey

About Sarah

Clem Gazelle

It Must Be Love

Carol

Book Club: The Next Chapter

Karen Ellis

Song One

Elaine Rutledge

Miss Firecracker

Belinda Conine

Philadelphia

Louisa Poole

7 Days in Hell

Last Train to Fortune

Carol

Dean

Self

Dick Van Dyke: 98 Years of Magic

Self

Sanford Meisner: The American Theatre's Best Kept Secret

Emma Wheeler

Did You Hear About the Morgans?

Colleen Beck

Life as a House

Aunt Cly

Jim Henson's Turkey Hollow

Miep Gies

The Attic: The Hiding of Anne Frank

Julia Mureaux

The Book of Love

Jeannie

A Walk in the Woods

Sue

Let's Have Kids!

Mrs. Yankovic

Weird: The Al Yankovic Story

Katherine

The Open Road

Cybil Burger

I Do... Until I Don't

Elaine Stein

The Help

Maybelle

Katie Says Goodbye

Little Red Riding Hood a.k.a. Mary

Little Red Riding Hood

Visitor #2

Inland Empire

Dr. Blake

I Am Sam

Interviewer

The Discovery

Amanda Winship

Honeydripper

Carol

Book Club

Dr. Margot

Antiquities

Gloria

My Family

Flannery O'Connor (voice)

Flannery

The Tulsa Lynching of 1921: A Hidden Story

Self

Tales from the Future

Tipper

Happiest Season

Mom (voice)

The One I Love

Reader (voice)

Earth and the American Dream

Mary Steenburgen

30 Rock: A One-Time Special

The Dink

Self

Clinton Foundation: Celebrity Division

Herself

Broadway's Dreamers: The Legacy of the Group Theatre

Self

Celebrating Betty White: America's Golden Girl

Mary

Mrs. Pilgrim Goes to Hollywood

Personal Info

Known For

Acting

Known Credits

95

Gender

Female

Birthday

1953-02-08

Place of Birth

Newport, Arkansas, USA

Also Known As

Mary Nell Steenburgen