Mary Steenburgen 1953 72
Mary Steenburgen 1953 72
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.
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2025 The Dink
2025 Let's Have Kids!
2023 Dick Van Dyke: 98 Years of Magic as Self
2023 Book Club: The Next Chapter as Carol
2022 Celebrating Betty White: America's Golden Girl as Self
2021 Nightmare Alley as Mrs. Kimball
2021 Zoey's Extraordinary Christmas as Maggie Clarke
2020 Happiest Season as Tipper
2020 Best Summer Ever Executive Producer
2020 30 Rock: A One-Time Special as Mary Steenburgen
2019 Flannery as Flannery O'Connor (voice)
2019 Antiquities as Dr. Margot
2018 Book Club as Carol
2018 Katie Says Goodbye as Maybelle
2017 I Do... Until I Don't as Cybil Burger
2017 The Discovery as Interviewer
2017 The Book of Love as Julia Mureaux
2016 Dean as Carol
2015 Jim Henson's Turkey Hollow as Aunt Cly
2015 A Walk in the Woods as Jeannie
2015 7 Days in Hell as Louisa Poole
2014 The One I Love as Mom (voice) Thanks
2014 Song One as Karen Ellis
2013 Last Vegas as Diana Boyle
2013 Brahmin Bulls as Helen West
2012 Outlaw Country as Anastasia Lee
2011 Clinton Foundation: Celebrity Division as Self
2011 The Help as Elaine Stein
2011 Fight for Your Right Revisited as Café Patron
2010 Tales from the Future as Self
2010 Dirty Girl as Peggy
2010 Weird: The Al Yankovic Story as Mrs. Yankovic
2009 Did You Hear About the Morgans? as Emma Wheeler
2009 Clarkworld as Self
2009 The Proposal as Grace Paxton
2009 In the Electric Mist as Bootsie Robicheaux
2009 The Open Road as Katherine
2008 Four Christmases as Marilyn
2008 Step Brothers as Nancy Huff
2007 The Brave One as Carol
2007 Honeydripper as Amanda Winship
2007 Numb as Dr. Blaine
2007 Nobel Son as Sarah Michaelson
2007 Elvis & Anabelle as Geneva Leigh
2006 Inland Empire as Visitor #2
2006 The Dead Girl as Beverley, Leah's Mother
2006 O Lucky Malcolm! as Self
2006 Bye Bye Benjamin Executive Producer
2006 Marilyn Hotchkiss' Ballroom Dancing & Charm School as Marienne Hotchkiss
2004 Remembering Ragtime as Mother (archive footage)
2004 It Must Be Love
2003 Elf as Emily
2003 Casa de los Babys as Gayle
2003 Hope Springs as Joanie Fisher
2003 Mrs. Pilgrim Goes to Hollywood as Mary
2002 Sunshine State as Francine Pinkney
2002 Wish You Were Dead as Sally Rider
2002 Living with the Dead as Detective Karen Condrin
2001 I Am Sam as Dr. Blake
2001 Life as a House as Colleen Beck
2001 The Trumpet of the Swan as Mother (voice)
2001 Nobody's Baby as Estelle
2000 The Tulsa Lynching of 1921: A Hidden Story
2000 Picnic as Rosemary Sydney
1998 About Sarah as Sarah Elizabeth McCaffrey
1995 Nixon as Hannah Nixon
1995 Powder as Jessie Caldwell
1995 The Grass Harp as Sister Ida
1995 My Family as Gloria
1994 Pontiac Moon as Katherine Bellamy
1994 It Runs in the Family as Mrs. Parker (Mother)
1994 Clifford as Sarah Davis
1993 Philadelphia as Belinda Conine
1993 What's Eating Gilbert Grape as Betty Carver
1992 Earth and the American Dream as Reader (voice)
1991 The Butcher's Wife as Stella Keefover
1990 The Long Walk Home as Narrator (voice)
1990 Sanford Meisner: The American Theatre's Best Kept Secret as Self
1990 The Secrets of the 'Back to the Future' Trilogy as Self
1990 Back to the Future Part III as Clara Clayton
1989 Parenthood as Karen Buckman
1989 Broadway's Dreamers: The Legacy of the Group Theatre as Herself
1989 Miss Firecracker as Elaine Rutledge
1988 The Attic: The Hiding of Anne Frank as Miep Gies
1987 The Whales of August as Young Sarah
1987 End of the Line as Rose Pickett Executive Producer
1987 Dead of Winter as Julie Rose / Katie McGovern / Evelyn
1985 One Magic Christmas as Ginny Grainger
1983 Little Red Riding Hood as Little Red Riding Hood a.k.a. Mary
1983 Romantic Comedy as Phoebe Craddock
1983 Cross Creek as Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings
1982 A Midsummer Night's Sex Comedy as Adrian
1981 Ragtime as Mother
1980 Melvin and Howard as Lynda Dummar
1979 Time After Time as Amy Robbins
1978 Goin' South as Julia Tate
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7.54 Documentary 7
7.00 History 4
6.74 Music 5
6.52 Horror 2
6.50 War 1
6.41 Fantasy 6
6.35 Drama 49
6.28 Thriller 10
6.20 Science Fiction 5
6.17 Crime 7
6.17 Mystery 5
6.16 Adventure 5
6.09 Comedy 45
6.08 Family 8
6.01 Romance 25
5.80 Western 1
5.55 Action 2
5.51 TV Movie 10
5.49 Animation 1