Mary Steenburgen
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| Born | February 8, 1953 Newport, Arkansas, United States |
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| Years active | 1978 - present | ||||||||||
| Spouse(s) | Ted Danson (1995-present) Malcolm McDowell (1980-1990) |
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Mary Steenburgen (born February 8, 1953) is an Academy Award-winning American actress.
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[edit] Biography
[edit] Personal life
Steenburgen was born in Newport, Arkansas, daughter of Nell, a school-board secretary, and Maurice Steenburgen, a freight-train conductor.[1][2] Steenburgen grew up in North Little Rock, Arkansas. Steenburgen married Malcolm McDowell in 1980 and they had two children together: Lily Amanda, born January 21, 1981 and Charles Malcolm born July 10, 1983, before divorcing in 1990, and has been married to actor Ted Danson since 1995.
In 2006, Steenburgen received an honorary Doctor of Humane Letters degree from Lyon College in Batesville, Arkansas.
She is a close personal friend of former First Lady, current New York Senator Hillary Clinton. She resides in California.
[edit] Career
Steenburgen moved to New York City in 1972, working at Doubleday's while studying acting at New York's Neighborhood Playhouse School of the Theatre.[3] Her break came when she was discovered by Jack Nicholson in the reception room of Paramount's New York office and was cast as the lead in his second directorial effort, the 1978 Western Goin' South.[3]
She won the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for the 1980 film Melvin and Howard, playing the wife of a man who claims to have befriended reclusive billionaire Howard Hughes.
Steenburgen played Clara Clayton in Back to the Future Part III (1990), a role which her children, fans of the Back to the Future movies, convinced her to play. She reprised the role by providing the character's voice in the Back to the Future: The Animated Series.
She had a leading role in the 1979 film Time After Time as a modern woman who falls in love with author H.G. Wells, played by husband-to-be Malcolm McDowell. In both this film and "Back to the Future" she played the love interest of a time traveler.
Other notable film appearances came as an adulterous wife in What's Eating Gilbert Grape? with Johnny Depp, as the mother of Richard Nixon in the Oliver Stone biopic Nixon and as a woman who discovers her husband is the father of a North Pole elf in the Will Ferrell holiday comedy Elf.
She also has starred in the sitcom Ink and the television miniseries of Gulliver's Travels with husband Ted Danson. She has appeared as herself alongside Danson in the HBO comedy Curb Your Enthusiasm.
[edit] Filmography
| Year | Film | Role | Other notes |
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| 1978 | Goin' South | Julia Tate/Moon | Nominated - Golden Globe |
| 1979 | Time After Time | Amy Robbins | |
| 1980 | Melvin and Howard | Lynda Dummar | Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress; Golden Globe |
| 1981 | Ragtime | Mother | Nominated - Golden Globe |
| 1982 | A Midsummer Night's Sex Comedy | Adrian | |
| 1983 | Faerie Tale Theatre | Mary / Little Red Riding Hood | Little Red Riding Hood |
| Cross Creek | Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings | ||
| Romantic Comedy | Phoebe Craddock | ||
| 1985 | One Magic Christmas | Ginny Hanks Grainger | |
| Tender Is the Night | Nicole Warren Diver | TV mini-series; Nominated - BAFTA Award | |
| 1987 | The Whales of August | Young Sarah | |
| Dead of Winter | Julie Rose/Katie McGovern/Evelyn | ||
| 1988 | The Attic: The Hiding of Anne Frank | Miep Gies | television movie; Nominated - Emmy Award |
| End of the Line | Rose Pickett | ||
| 1989 | Parenthood | Karen Buckman | |
| Miss Firecracker | Elain Rutledge | ||
| 1990 | The Long Walk Home | Narrator voice | |
| Back to the Future Part III | Clara Clayton | ||
| 1991 | The Butcher's Wife | Stella Keefover | |
| 1993 | Philadelphia | Belinda Conine | |
| What's Eating Gilbert Grape | Betty Carver | ||
| 1994 | Pontiac Moon | Katherine Bellamy | |
| The Gift | TV | ||
| It Runs in the Family | Mrs. Parker (Mother) | ||
| Clifford | Sarah Davis | ||
| 1995 | Nixon | Hannah Nixon | |
| Powder | Jessie Caldwell | ||
| The Grass Harp | Sister Ida | ||
| My Family | Gloria | ||
| 1996 | Gulliver's Travels | Mary Gulliver | TV |
| Ink | Kate Montgomery | TV Series | |
| 1998 | About Sarah | Sarah Elizabeth McCaffrey | TV |
| 1999 | Noah's Ark | Naamah | TV |
| 2000 | Curb Your Enthusiasm | Herself | 4 episodes |
| Picnic | Rosemary Sydney | TV | |
| 2001 | I Am Sam | Dr. Blake | |
| Life as a House | Colleen Beck | ||
| The Trumpet of the Swan | Mother Voice | ||
| Nobody's Baby | Estelle | ||
| 2002 | Wish You Were Dead | Sally Rider | |
| Sunshine State | Francine Pinkney | ||
| Living with the Dead | Detective Karen Condrin | TV | |
| 2003-2005 | Joan of Arcadia | Helen Girardi | TV Series - 45 episodes |
| 2003 | Elf | Emily | |
| Casa de los babys | Gayle | ||
| Hope Springs | Joanie Fisher | ||
| 2004 | Capital City | Elaine Summer | TV |
| It Must Be Love | Clem Gazelle | TV | |
| 2005 | Marilyn Hotchkiss' Ballroom Dancing and Charm School | Marienne Hotchkiss | |
| 2006 | The Dead Girl | Beverley, Leah's Mother | |
| Inland Empire | Visitor #2 | ||
| 2007 | Reinventing the Wheelers | Claire Wheeler | TV |
| Elvis and Anabelle | Geneva | ||
| Numb | Dr. Cheryl Blaine | ||
| Nobel Son | Sarah Michaelson | ||
| The Brave One | Carol | ||
| Honeydripper | Amanda Winship | ||
| 2008 | In the Electric Mist | Bootsie Robicheaux | awaiting release |
| Step Brothers | Nancy Huff | awaiting release | |
| Four Christmases | Kate's Mom | post-production | |
| The Open Road | Katherine | post-production | |
| 2009 | The Proposal | TBA | filming |
| Awards | ||
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| Preceded by Meryl Streep for Kramer vs. Kramer |
Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress 1980 for Melvin and Howard |
Succeeded by Maureen Stapleton for Reds |
[edit] References
- ^ Mary Steenburgen biography. Film Reference.com.
- ^ Mary Steenburgen biography. Yahoo! Movies.
- ^ a b Mary Steenburgen: Biography. TV Guide.com.
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| NAME | Steenburgen, Mary |
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| SHORT DESCRIPTION | American Academy Award-winning film actress. |
| DATE OF BIRTH | February 8, 1953 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Newport, Arkansas |
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