Mary Steenburgen

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Known For Acting

Known Credits 127

Gender Female

Birthday 1953-02-08 (70 years old)

Place of Birth Newport, Arkansas, USA

Also Known As

Mary Nell Steenburgen
Μάρι Στινμπούργζεν

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Mary Steenburgen

Biography

Mary Nell Steenburgen (born February 8, 1953) is an American actress. She was most successful for playing the role of Lynda Dummar in Jonathan Demme's Melvin and Howard, which earned her an Academy Award and a Golden Globe.

Known For

Acting

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(1 episode) as Audrey Veill

2023

as Carol

2021		Nightmare Alley as Mrs. Kimball
2021		Zoey's Extraordinary Christmas as Maggie Clarke
2021		Mr. Mayor (1 episode) as Adriana

2020		Happiest Season as Tipper
2020		30 Rock: A One-Time Special as Self
2020		Reunited Apart (1 episode) as Self
2020		Zoey's Extraordinary Playlist (25 episodes) as Maggie Clarke

2019		Flannery as Flannery O'Connor (voice)
2019		Bless the Harts (2 episodes) as Crystalynn (voice)
2019		The Kelly Clarkson Show (1 episode)
2019		On Becoming a God in Central Florida (2 episodes) as Ellen Joy Bonar
2019		Antiquities as Dr. Margot

2018		The Conners (1 episode) as Marcy Bellinger
2018		Book Club as Carol
2018		Katie Says Goodbye as Maybelle

2017		I Do... Until I Don't as Cybil Burger
2017		The Discovery as Interviewer
2017		The Book of Love as Julia Mureaux

2016		The Good Place (1 episode) as Teacher
2016		Dean as Carol

2015		Jim Henson's Turkey Hollow as Aunt Cly
2015		A Walk in the Woods as Jeannie
2015		7 Days in Hell as Louisa Poole
2015		Grace and Frankie (2 episodes) as Miriam
2015		The Last Man on Earth (54 episodes) as Gail Klosterman
2015		Togetherness (2 episodes) as Linda

2014		The One I Love as Mom (voice)
2014		Late Night with Seth Meyers (1 episode) as Self
2014		Song One as Karen Ellis

2013		Last Vegas as Diana Boyle
2013		Brahmin Bulls as Helen West
2013		Orange Is the New Black (6 episodes) as Delia Powell

2012		Outlaw Country as Anastasia Lee
2012		Finding Your Roots (1 episode) as Self

2011		The Help as Elain Stein
2011		Wilfred (4 episodes) as Catherine Newman
2011		Fight for Your Right Revisited as Café Patron

2010		Tales from the Future as Self
2010		Dirty Girl as Peggy
2010		Weird: The Al Yankovic Story as Mrs. Yankovic

2009		Did You Hear About the Morgans? as Emma Wheeler
2009		Clarkworld as herself
2009		The Proposal as Grace Paxton
2009		In the Electric Mist as Bootsie Robicheaux
2009		The Open Road as Katherine

2008		Four Christmases as Marilyn
2008		Step Brothers as Nancy Huff

2007		The Brave One as Carol
2007		Honeydripper as Amanda Winship
2007		Numb as Dr. Blaine
2007		Nobel Son as Sarah Michaelson
2007		Elvis & Anabelle as Geneva Leigh

2006		Inland Empire as Visitor #2
2006		The Dead Girl as Beverley, Leah's Mother
2006		30 Rock (5 episodes) as Diana Jessup
2006		O Lucky Malcolm! as Self

2005		Marilyn Hotchkiss' Ballroom Dancing & Charm School as Marienne Hotchkiss
2005		The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson (1 episode) as Self

2004		Remembering Ragtime as Mother (archive footage)
2004		The Tony Danza Show (1 episode) as Self - Guest
2004		It Must Be Love

2003		Elf as Emily
2003		Joan of Arcadia (45 episodes) as Helen Girardi
2003		Casa de los Babys as Gayle
2003		E!'s 101 (1 episode) as Self
2003		Hope Springs as Joanie Fisher

2002		Sunshine State as Francine Pinkney
2002		Wish You Were Dead as Sally Rider
2002		Living with the Dead (2 episodes) as Detective Karen Condrin
2002		Living with the Dead as Detective Karen Condrin

2001		I Am Sam as Dr. Blake
2001		Life as a House as Colleen Beck
2001		Good Day Live (1 episode) as Self
2001		Dinner for Five (2 episodes)
2001		The Trumpet of the Swan as Mother (voice)
2001		Nobody's Baby as Estelle

2000		Curb Your Enthusiasm (6 episodes) as Mary Steenburgen
2000		The Tulsa Lynching of 1921: A Hidden Story
2000		Picnic as Rosemary Sydney

1999		Law & Order: Special Victims Unit (1 episode) as Grace Rinato
1999		Noah's Ark (2 episodes) as Naamah
1999		Noah's Ark as Naamah

1998		Becker (1 episode) as Patient (uncredited)
1998		About Sarah as Sarah Elizabeth McCaffrey

1997

(2 episodes) as Self

1996		Ink (26 episodes) as Kate Montgomery
1996		Gulliver's Travels (2 episodes) as Mary Gulliver

1995		Nixon as Hannah Nixon
1995		Powder as Jessie Caldwell
1995		The Grass Harp as Sister Ida
1995		My Family as Gloria

1994		Pontiac Moon as Katherine Bellamy
1994		It Runs in the Family as Mrs. Parker (Mother)
1994		Clifford as Sarah Davis
1994		Ellen (1 episode) as Self (uncredited)

1993		Philadelphia as Belinda Conine
1993		What's Eating Gilbert Grape as Betty Carver
1993		Frasier (1 episode) as Marjorie (voice)

1992

as Reader (voice)

1991		The Butcher's Wife as Stella Keefover
1991		Back to the Future (26 episodes) as Clara Clayton (voice)

1990		The Long Walk Home as Narrator (voice)
1990		Sanford Meisner: The American Theatre's Best Kept Secret as Self
1990		The Secrets of the 'Back to the Future' Trilogy as Self
1990		Back to the Future Part III as Clara Clayton

1989		Parenthood as Karen Buckman
1989		Miss Firecracker as Elaine Rutledge

1988

as Miep Gies

1987		The Whales of August as Young Sarah
1987		End of the Line as Rose Pickett
1987		Dead of Winter as Julie Rose / Katie McGovern / Evelyn

1985		One Magic Christmas as Ginny Grainger
1985		Tender Is the Night (6 episodes) as Nicole Warren Diver

1983		Little Red Riding Hood as Little Red Riding Hood a.k.a. Mary
1983		Romantic Comedy as Phoebe Craddock
1983		Cross Creek as Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings

1982		Faerie Tale Theatre (1 episode) as Mary / Little Red Riding Hood
1982		A Midsummer Night's Sex Comedy as Adrian

1981

as Mother

1980

as Lynda Dummar

1979

as Amy Robbins

1978

as Julia Tate

1953

(1 episode) as Self

Production

2020

… Executive Producer

2006

… Executive Producer

1996

(26 episodes) … Producer

1987

… Executive Producer

Crew

2014

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