Mary Steenburgen
Date of birth: 1953-02-08
Place of birth: Newport, Arkansas, USA
Known for: Acting
Also known as: Mary Nell Steenburgen, Μάρι Στινμπούργζεν, مری استینبورگن
Biography
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.
Movie Credits
Back to the Future Part III
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Zoey's Extraordinary Christmas
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Parenthood
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The story of the Buckman family and friends, attempting to bring up their children. They suffer/enjo
What's Eating Gilbert Grape
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Elf
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Clifford
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The Brave One
2007-09-12
A woman struggles to recover from a brutal attack by setting out on a mission for revenge.
The Butcher's Wife
1991-10-25
A clairvoyant woman thinks that she's met her future husband because she's seen him in a dream. They
Nixon
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A look at President Richard M. Nixon—a man carrying the fate of the world on his shoulders while bat
Picnic
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The son of the richest man in town wants to marry the town's beauty queen, but she meets a more inte
Hope Springs
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Wish You Were Dead
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Time After Time
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A Midsummer Night's Sex Comedy
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Step Brothers
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Four Christmases
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Ragtime
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The Long Walk Home
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Powder
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Goin' South
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One Magic Christmas
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The Dead Girl
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Nightmare Alley
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Numb
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Hudson Milbank is a successful Hollywood screenwriter who suddenly and strangely finds himself witho
The Grass Harp
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Based on the novel by Truman Capote, this often-witty coming-of-age drama looks at a young man growi
Nobody's Baby
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Two not so bright small time crooks end up with a baby girl by "accident" and find a change in their
The Proposal
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When she learns she's in danger of losing her visa status and being deported, overbearing book edito
The Whales of August
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Two aged sisters reflect on life and the past during a late summer day in Maine.
End of the Line
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When the closure of a railway is announced, employees commandeer a locomotive to get to corporate he
Elvis & Anabelle
2007-03-10
A small-town beauty queen and an unlicensed mortician set out across the Texas plains on a journey o
Pontiac Moon
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An absent-minded-professor father and his son take off in an old Pontiac to bond during a symbolic r
It Runs in the Family
1994-09-23
It is now summer in the Parker family; and the usual amount of numerous events are happening in thei
Dirty Girl
2010-09-12
When Danielle is banished to special education because of her misbehavior, she joins Clarke on a roa
Dead of Winter
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A fledgling actress is lured to a remote mansion for a screen-test, soon discovering she is actually
The Trumpet of the Swan
2001-05-11
The adventures of a young Trumpeter swan who cannot speak. With the help of a human boy and the love
Marilyn Hotchkiss' Ballroom Dancing & Charm School
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Frank Keane, a baker by trade, has been consumed by grief over his wife's untimely death. But everyt
Clarkworld
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Documentary on the life and death of Bob Clark, a director of movies such as Christmas Story, Porky'
Living with the Dead
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A man begins to have disturbing visions of dead people, among whom are his mother and victims of a l
Sunshine State
2002-06-21
A woman and her new husband returns to her hometown roots in coastal northern Florida, and must deal
Romantic Comedy
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Jason is in need of a collaborator to give him inspiration. Phoebe is a small-town English teacher w
O Lucky Malcolm!
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Outlaw Country
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A crime thriller/family drama set against the backdrop of southern organized crime and Nashville roy
Brahmin Bulls
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The Secrets of the 'Back to the Future' Trilogy
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Cross Creek
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In the 1930s, Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings moves to Florida's backwaters to write in peace. She feels bo
Last Vegas
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Remembering Ragtime
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About Sarah
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It Must Be Love
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Song One
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Philadelphia
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Dean
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I Do... Until I Don't
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In Vero Beach, Florida, a trio of couples at various points in their relationships become the subjec
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Inland Empire
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I Am Sam
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Sam, a neurodivergent man, has a daughter with a homeless woman who abandons them when they leave th
The Discovery
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In the near future, due to a breakthrough scientific discovery by Dr. Thomas Harbor, there is now de
Honeydripper
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In 1950s Alabama, the owner of the Honeydripper juke joint finds his business dropping off and again
Book Club
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Four lifelong friends decide that their lives could change by becoming nasty and reading Fifty Shade
Antiquities
2019-01-25
After his father's death, a young man searches to find who his dad was only to stumble onto himself.
My Family
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Traces over three generations an immigrant family's trials, tribulations, tragedies, and triumphs. M
Flannery
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Explore the life of Flannery O’Connor whose provocative fiction was unlike anything published before
The Tulsa Lynching of 1921: A Hidden Story
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Documents the race riot of 1921 and the destruction of the African-American community of Greenwood i
Tales from the Future
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Happiest Season
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The One I Love
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Ethan and Sophie are a married couple on the brink of separation when, at the urging of their therap
Earth and the American Dream
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In a one-time special event featuring all the beloved characters from the original series, Liz Lemon
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Clinton Foundation: Celebrity Division
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Ben Stiller, Kristen Wiig, Jack Black, Matt Damon, Sean Penn, Ted Danson, Mary Steenburgen & Kevin S
Broadway's Dreamers: The Legacy of the Group Theatre
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A study of the Group Theatre, a company that changed the face of American drama. The Group was found
Celebrating Betty White: America's Golden Girl
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Friends and stars pay tribute to America's comedy sweetheart and her trailblazing television career.
Mrs. Pilgrim Goes to Hollywood
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Easy's Waltz
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Elf: Buddy's Sing and Cheer Along Edition
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