Mary Steenburgen
Acting
Born February 8, 1953 · Newport, Arkansas, USA
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.
Films (95)
The Dink
2026
Last Train to Fortune
2025
Easy's Waltz
2025
Dick Van Dyke: 98 Years of Magic
2023
Book Club: The Next Chapter
2023
Celebrating Betty White: America's Golden Girl
2022
Nightmare Alley
2021
Zoey's Extraordinary Christmas
2021
Happiest Season
2020
30 Rock: A One-Time Special
2020
Flannery
2019
Antiquities
2019
Book Club
2018
Katie Says Goodbye
2018
I Do... Until I Don't
2017
The Discovery
2017
The Book of Love
2017
Dean
2016
Jim Henson's Turkey Hollow
2015
A Walk in the Woods
2015
7 Days in Hell
2015
The One I Love
2014
Song One
2014
Last Vegas
2013
Brahmin Bulls
2013
Outlaw Country
2012
The Help
2011
Fight for Your Right Revisited
2011
Tales from the Future
2010
Dirty Girl
2010
Weird: The Al Yankovic Story
2010
Did You Hear About the Morgans?
2009
Clarkworld
2009
The Proposal
2009
In the Electric Mist
2009
The Open Road
2009
Four Christmases
2008
Step Brothers
2008
The Brave One
2007
Honeydripper
2007
Numb
2007
Nobel Son
2007
Elvis & Anabelle
2007
Inland Empire
2006
The Dead Girl
2006
O Lucky Malcolm!
2006
Marilyn Hotchkiss' Ballroom Dancing & Charm School
2006
Remembering Ragtime
2004
It Must Be Love
2004
Elf
2003
Casa de los Babys
2003
Hope Springs
2003
Mrs. Pilgrim Goes to Hollywood
2003
Sunshine State
2002
Wish You Were Dead
2002
Living with the Dead
2002
I Am Sam
2001
Life as a House
2001
The Trumpet of the Swan
2001
Nobody's Baby
2001
The Tulsa Lynching of 1921: A Hidden Story
2000
Picnic
2000
About Sarah
1998
The Grass Harp
1996
Nixon
1995
Powder
1995
My Family
1995
Pontiac Moon
1994
It Runs in the Family
1994
Clifford
1994
Philadelphia
1993
What's Eating Gilbert Grape
1993
Earth and the American Dream
1992
Back to the Future: Dickens of a Christmas
1991
The Butcher's Wife
1991
The Long Walk Home
1990
Sanford Meisner: The American Theatre's Best Kept Secret
1990
The Secrets of the 'Back to the Future' Trilogy
1990
Back to the Future Part III
1990
Parenthood
1989
Broadway's Dreamers: The Legacy of the Group Theatre
1989
Miss Firecracker
1989
The Attic: The Hiding of Anne Frank
1988
The Whales of August
1987
End of the Line
1987
Dead of Winter
1987
One Magic Christmas
1985
Little Red Riding Hood
1983
Romantic Comedy
1983
Cross Creek
1983
A Midsummer Night's Sex Comedy
1982
Ragtime
1981
Melvin and Howard
1980
Time After Time
1979
Goin' South
1978