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Mary Steenburgen
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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.
BODY OF WORK
Mary Steenburgen's Filmography
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A Dog's Perfect Christmas
as Claire
Let's Have Kids!
as Sue
Last Train to Fortune
as Miss Maybelle
The Dink
as Candace
Easy's Waltz
Dick Van Dyke: 98 Years of Magic
as Self
Book Club: The Next Chapter
as Carol
Celebrating Betty White: America's Golden Girl
as Self
Nightmare Alley
as Mrs. Kimball
Zoey's Extraordinary Christmas
as Maggie Clarke
Happiest Season
as Tipper
30 Rock: A One-Time Special
as Mary Steenburgen
Flannery
as Flannery O'Connor (voice)
Antiquities
as Dr. Margot
Book Club
as Carol
Katie Says Goodbye
as Maybelle
I Do... Until I Don't
as Cybil Burger
The Discovery
as Interviewer
The Book of Love
as Julia Mureaux
Dean
as Carol
Jim Henson's Turkey Hollow
as Aunt Cly
A Walk in the Woods
as Jeannie
7 Days in Hell
as Louisa Poole
The One I Love
as Mom (voice)
Song One
as Karen Ellis
Last Vegas
as Diana Boyle
Brahmin Bulls
as Helen West
Outlaw Country
as Anastasia Lee
The Help
as Elaine Stein
Fight for Your Right Revisited
as Café Patron
Tales from the Future
as Self
Dirty Girl
as Peggy
Weird: The Al Yankovic Story
as Mrs. Yankovic
Did You Hear About the Morgans?
as Emma Wheeler
Clarkworld
as Self
The Proposal
as Grace Paxton
In the Electric Mist
as Bootsie Robicheaux
The Open Road
as Katherine
Four Christmases
as Marilyn
Step Brothers
as Nancy Huff
The Brave One
as Carol
Honeydripper
as Amanda Winship
Numb
as Dr. Blaine
Nobel Son
as Sarah Michaelson
Elvis & Anabelle
as Geneva Leigh
Inland Empire
as Visitor #2
The Dead Girl
as Leah's Mother
O Lucky Malcolm!
as Self
Marilyn Hotchkiss' Ballroom Dancing & Charm School
as Marienne Hotchkiss
Elf: That's a Wrap
as Self
Remembering Ragtime
as Mother (archive footage)
It Must Be Love
as Clem Gazelle
Elf
as Emily
Casa de los Babys
as Gayle
Hope Springs
as Joanie Fisher
Mrs. Pilgrim Goes to Hollywood
as Mary
Sunshine State
as Francine Pinkney
Wish You Were Dead
as Sally Rider
Living with the Dead
as Detective Karen Condrin
Character Building: Inside 'Life As a House'
as Self
I Am Sam
as Dr. Blake
Life as a House
as Colleen Beck
The Trumpet of the Swan
as Mother (voice)
Nobody's Baby
as Estelle
The Tulsa Lynching of 1921: A Hidden Story
Picnic
as Rosemary Sydney
About Sarah
as Sarah Elizabeth McCaffrey
The Grass Harp
as Sister Ida
Nixon
as Hannah Nixon
Powder
as Jessie Caldwell
My Family
as Gloria
Pontiac Moon
as Katherine Bellamy
It Runs in the Family
as Mrs. Parker (Mother)
Clifford
as Sarah Davis
Philadelphia
as Belinda Conine
What's Eating Gilbert Grape
as Betty Carver
Earth and the American Dream
as Reader (voice)
Back to the Future: Dickens of a Christmas
as Clara Clayton Brown (voice)
The Butcher's Wife
as Stella Keefover
The Long Walk Home
as Narrator (voice)
No Poster
Sanford Meisner: The American Theatre's Best Kept Secret
as Self
The Secrets of the 'Back to the Future' Trilogy
as Self
Back to the Future Part III
as Clara Clayton
Parenthood
as Karen Buckman
No Poster
Broadway's Dreamers: The Legacy of the Group Theatre
as Self (voice)
Miss Firecracker
as Elaine Rutledge
The Attic: The Hiding of Anne Frank
as Miep Gies
The Whales of August
as Young Sarah
End of the Line
as Rose Pickett
Dead of Winter
as Julie Rose / Katie McGovern / Evelyn
One Magic Christmas
as Ginny Grainger
Little Red Riding Hood
as Little Red Riding Hood a.k.a. Mary
Romantic Comedy
as Phoebe Craddock
Cross Creek
as Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings
A Midsummer Night's Sex Comedy
as Adrian
Ragtime
as Mother
Melvin and Howard
as Lynda Dummar
Time After Time
as Amy Robbins
Goin' South
as Julia Tate