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AKA:
Mary Nell Steenburgen
Birthplace:
Newport, Arkansas
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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,
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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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