Mary Steenburgen

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Acting

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.

Filmography

• A Dog's Perfect Christmas (2026)
• Let's Have Kids! (2026)
• Last Train to Fortune (2026)
• The Dink (2026)
• Easy's Waltz (2025)
• Dick Van Dyke: 98 Years of Magic (2023)
• Book Club: The Next Chapter (2023)
• Celebrating Betty White: America's Golden Girl (2022)
• Nightmare Alley (2021)
• Zoey's Extraordinary Christmas (2021)
• Happiest Season (2020)
• Best Summer Ever (2020)
• 30 Rock: A One-Time Special (2020)
• Flannery (2019)
• Antiquities (2019)
• Book Club (2018)
• Katie Says Goodbye (2018)
• I Do... Until I Don't (2017)
• The Discovery (2017)
• The Book of Love (2017)
• Dean (2016)
• Jim Henson's Turkey Hollow (2015)
• A Walk in the Woods (2015)
• 7 Days in Hell (2015)
• The One I Love (2014)
• Song One (2014)
• Last Vegas (2013)
• Brahmin Bulls (2013)
• Outlaw Country (2012)
• The Help (2011)
• Fight for Your Right Revisited (2011)
• Tales from the Future (2010)
• Dirty Girl (2010)
• Weird: The Al Yankovic Story (2010)
• Did You Hear About the Morgans? (2009)
• Clarkworld (2009)
• The Proposal (2009)
• In the Electric Mist (2009)
• The Open Road (2009)
• Four Christmases (2008)
• Step Brothers (2008)
• The Brave One (2007)
• Honeydripper (2007)
• Numb (2007)
• Nobel Son (2007)
• Elvis & Anabelle (2007)
• Inland Empire (2006)
• The Dead Girl (2006)
• O Lucky Malcolm! (2006)
• Bye Bye Benjamin (2006)
• Marilyn Hotchkiss' Ballroom Dancing & Charm School (2006)
• Remembering Ragtime (2004)
• Elf: That's a Wrap (2004)
• It Must Be Love (2004)
• Elf (2003)
• Casa de los Babys (2003)
• Hope Springs (2003)
• Mrs. Pilgrim Goes to Hollywood (2003)
• Sunshine State (2002)
• Wish You Were Dead (2002)
• Living with the Dead (2002)
• Character Building: Inside 'Life As a House' (2002)
• I Am Sam (2001)
• Life as a House (2001)
• The Trumpet of the Swan (2001)
• Nobody's Baby (2001)
• The Tulsa Lynching of 1921: A Hidden Story (2000)
• Picnic (2000)
• About Sarah (1998)
• The Grass Harp (1996)
• Nixon (1995)
• Powder (1995)
• My Family (1995)
• Pontiac Moon (1994)
• It Runs in the Family (1994)
• Clifford (1994)
• Philadelphia (1993)
• What's Eating Gilbert Grape (1993)
• Earth and the American Dream (1992)
• Back to the Future: Dickens of a Christmas (1991)
• The Butcher's Wife (1991)
• The Long Walk Home (1990)
• Sanford Meisner: The American Theatre's Best Kept Secret (1990)
• The Secrets of the 'Back to the Future' Trilogy (1990)
• Back to the Future Part III (1990)
• Parenthood (1989)
• Broadway's Dreamers: The Legacy of the Group Theatre (1989)
• Miss Firecracker (1989)
• The Attic: The Hiding of Anne Frank (1988)
• The Whales of August (1987)
• End of the Line (1987)
• Dead of Winter (1987)
• One Magic Christmas (1985)
• Little Red Riding Hood (1983)
• Romantic Comedy (1983)
• Cross Creek (1983)
• A Midsummer Night's Sex Comedy (1982)
• Ragtime (1981)
• Melvin and Howard (1980)
• Time After Time (1979)
• Goin' South (1978)