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

35 films

Mary Steenburgen

Biography

Filmography

Book Club: The Next Chapter

Nightmare Alley

Happiest Season

Book Club

The Discovery

The Book of Love

Dean

A Walk in the Woods

7 Days in Hell

The One I Love

Last Vegas

The Help

Did You Hear About the Morgans?

The Proposal

In the Electric Mist

Four Christmases

Step Brothers

The Brave One

Numb

Inland Empire

The Dead Girl

Marilyn Hotchkiss' Ballroom Dancing & Charm School

Elf

I Am Sam

Life as a House

Nixon

Powder

Philadelphia

What's Eating Gilbert Grape

Back to the Future Part III

Parenthood

Dead of Winter

One Magic Christmas

Ragtime

Time After Time