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.
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
Known For
Acting
Known Credits
95
Gender
Female
Birthday
1953-02-08
Place of Birth
Newport, Arkansas, USA
Also Known As
Mary Nell Steenburgen