Mary Steenburgen

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AKA: Mary Nell Steenburgen
Nationality: American
Birthdate: 02/08/1953
Birthplace: Newport, Arkansas, USA

biography

This soft-spoken, offbeat, and appealing stage-trained actress won raves and a Best Supporting Actress Oscar as Melvin's flustered but caring wife in Jonathan Demme's "Melvin and Howard" (1980). Mary Steenburgen could have parlayed this triumph into a high profile Hollywood career but opted instead for modest projects, gentle comedies, and occasional genre films. Pretty, vulnerable, and intelligent, she convinces as the thinking man's heartthrob in such charming fantasies as "Time After Time" (1979), as the modern significant other of a time-traveling H.G. Wells (played by Malcolm McDowall, Continued

Credits

(TV Show)
2007-2009
Herself
2009
Herself
2007
Herself
2007
Herself
2007
Grace Paxton
2009
Sarah Michaelson
2008
Marilyn
2008
Nancy Huff
2008
Carol
2007
Leah's Mother
2006
(TV Show)
2003-2005
Helen Girardi
2005
Helen Girardi
2005
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Emily
2003
Gayle
2003
Francine Pickney
2002
Doctor Blake
2001
Coleen Beck
2001
of Louie's Mother
2001
Sister Ida
1996
Hannah Nixon
1995
Jessie Caldwell
1995
Lynda Dummar
1980
Narration
Katherine
Bootsie Robicheaux
Joanie Fisher
Estelle
Sarah Davis
Amy Robbins
Rose Pickett
Clara Clayton
Phoebe Craddock
Julia Tate
Katherine Bellamy
Elain Rutledge
Karen
Ginny Grainger
Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings
Executive Producer

milestones

Year
Milestone
 
Born and raised in Arkansas
1972 
Moved to NYC and sold books at Doubleday's while attending the first-year program at the Neighborhood Playhouse
 
Invited to return for the second year program; eliminated her thick Southern accent
 
Co-founded (with four other Playhouse graduates) and acted with Cracked Tokens, an improvisational comedy troupe
 
Performed with Cracked Tokens for the NYC Bureau of Alcoholism
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