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Mary Steenburgenborn 1953

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Actor

Popularity

4.1

Famous

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.

Credits

Dick Van Dyke: 98 Years of Magic

2023

Documentary • Family • Music

as Self

7.4(5)

0.4

Book Club: The Next Chapter

2023

Comedy • Romance

as Carol

6.3(195)

2.1

Celebrating Betty White: America's Golden Girl

2022

Comedy • Documentary

as Self

9.5(2)

0.6

Nightmare Alley

2021

Crime • Drama • Thriller

as Mrs. Kimball

7(3,052)

Zoey's Extraordinary Christmas

2021

Comedy • Drama • Music • TV Movie

as Maggie Clarke

6.4(66)

0.9

Happiest Season

2020

Comedy • Romance

as Tipper

7.2(1,244)

2.5

30 Rock: A One-Time Special

2020

Comedy • TV Movie

as Mary Steenburgen

5.6(10)

0.6

Flannery

2019

Documentary • History

as Flannery O'Connor (voice)

0(0)

0.1

Antiquities

2019

Comedy

as Dr. Margot

4.3(10)

0.2

Book Club

2018

Comedy • Drama • Romance

as Carol

6.2(796)

Katie Says Goodbye

2018

Drama

as Maybelle

6.7(58)

0.6

I Do... Until I Don't

2017

Comedy

as Cybil Burger

4.9(68)

0.8

The Discovery

2017

Drama • Mystery • Romance • Science Fiction • Thriller

as Interviewer

6.3(1,342)

1.3

The Book of Love

2017

Drama

as Julia Mureaux

6.4(222)

0.6

Dean

2016

Comedy • Romance

as Carol

5.9(64)

0.6

Jim Henson's Turkey Hollow

2015

Adventure • Comedy • Family • TV Movie

as Aunt Cly

5.4(16)

0.5

A Walk in the Woods

2015

Adventure • Comedy • Drama

as Jeannie

6.1(718)

1.5

7 Days in Hell

2015

Comedy • TV Movie

as Louisa Poole

6.5(394)

0.7

The One I Love

2014

Comedy • Drama • Romance

as Mom (voice)

6.9(715)

1.6

Song One

2014

Drama

as Karen Ellis

5.7(233)

0.9

Last Vegas

2013

Comedy

as Diana Boyle

6.4(2,162)

2.9

Brahmin Bulls

2013

Drama

as Helen West

5(1)

0.2

Outlaw Country

2012

Crime • Drama • TV Movie

as Anastasia Lee

6(13)

0.4

Clinton Foundation: Celebrity Division

2011

Comedy

as Self

0(0)

0.1

The Help

2011

Drama

as Elaine Stein

8.2(8,547)

8.9

Fight for Your Right Revisited

2011

Comedy • Music

as Café Patron

6.6(89)

0.6

Tales from the Future

2010

Documentary

as Self

7.5(6)

0.2

Dirty Girl

2010

Comedy • Drama

as Peggy

6(195)

1.2

Weird: The Al Yankovic Story

2010

Comedy

as Mrs. Yankovic

6.6(18)

0.3

Did You Hear About the Morgans?

2009

Comedy • Drama • Romance

as Emma Wheeler

5.4(992)

1.2

Clarkworld

2009

Documentary

as Self

10(1)

0.3

The Proposal

2009

Comedy • Drama • Romance

as Grace Paxton

7.2(7,053)

10.8

In the Electric Mist

2009

Crime • Drama • Mystery • Thriller

as Bootsie Robicheaux

6.1(428)

1.1

The Open Road

2009

Comedy • Drama • Romance

as Katherine

5.2(66)

0.5

Four Christmases

2008

Comedy • Drama • Romance

as Marilyn

5.8(1,173)

1.7

Step Brothers

2008

Comedy

as Nancy Huff

6.6(3,186)

4.5

The Brave One

2007

Crime • Drama • Thriller

as Carol

6.6(987)

1.7

Honeydripper

2007

Drama • Music

as Amanda Winship

6.1(37)

0.7

Numb

2007

Comedy • Drama • Romance

as Dr. Blaine

5.9(110)

1.1

Nobel Son

2007

Comedy • Crime • Drama

as Sarah Michaelson

6.1(130)

1.1

Elvis & Anabelle

2007

Drama • Romance

as Geneva Leigh

6.8(94)

1.9

Inland Empire

2006

Drama • Fantasy • Horror • Mystery • Thriller

as Visitor #2

7(1,145)

The Dead Girl

2006

Crime • Drama • Mystery • Thriller

as Beverley, Leah's Mother

6.1(229)

1.4

O Lucky Malcolm!

2006

Documentary

as Self

6.7(6)

0.1

Marilyn Hotchkiss' Ballroom Dancing & Charm School

2006

Comedy • Drama • Romance

as Marienne Hotchkiss

5.8(68)

0.6

Remembering Ragtime

2004

Documentary

as Mother (archive footage)

0(0)

0.2

It Must Be Love

2004

Comedy • Drama • Romance • TV Movie

4.4(7)

0.2

Elf

2003

Comedy • Family • Fantasy

as Emily

6.7(4,192)

3.9

Casa de los Babys

2003

Drama

as Gayle

5.5(28)

0.4

Hope Springs

2003

Comedy • Romance

as Joanie Fisher

5.2(156)

0.9

Mrs. Pilgrim Goes to Hollywood

2003

Comedy

as Mary

0(0)

0.1

Sunshine State

2002

Drama

as Francine Pinkney

6.4(39)

0.4

Wish You Were Dead

2002

Action • Comedy • Romance • Thriller

as Sally Rider

5.2(10)

0.7

Living with the Dead

2002

Crime • Mystery • Science Fiction • TV Movie • Thriller

as Detective Karen Condrin

5.2(25)

0.6

I Am Sam

2001

Drama

as Dr. Blake

7.6(2,343)

3.1

Life As A House

2001

Drama

as Colleen Beck

7.1(418)

1.5

The Trumpet of the Swan

2001

Animation • Family

as Mother (voice)

5.5(65)

0.9

Nobody's Baby

2001

Comedy

as Estelle

5.2(27)

0.7

The Tulsa Lynching of 1921: A Hidden Story

2000

Documentary

0(0)

0.2

Picnic

2000

Drama • Romance • TV Movie

as Rosemary Sydney

3.7(3)

0.4

About Sarah

1998

Drama • TV Movie

as Sarah Elizabeth McCaffrey

6(2)

0.2

The Grass Harp

1996

Comedy • Drama • Family

as Sister Ida

5.8(33)

1.1

Nixon

1995

Drama • History

as Hannah Nixon

6.9(374)

1.5

Powder

1995

Drama • Fantasy

as Jessie Caldwell

7(675)

3.2

My Family

1995

Comedy • Drama

as Gloria

7.5(78)

0.7

Pontiac Moon

1994

Drama

as Katherine Bellamy

5.2(16)

0.6

It Runs in the Family

1994

Comedy • Family

as Mrs. Parker (Mother)

5.3(27)

0.3

Clifford

1994

Comedy

as Sarah Davis

5.1(105)

0.8

Philadelphia

1993

Drama

as Belinda Conine

7.7(4,357)

3.4

What's Eating Gilbert Grape

1993

Drama • Romance

as Betty Carver

7.7(4,042)

4.3

Earth and the American Dream

1992

Documentary

as Reader (voice)

6.7(3)

0.5

The Butcher's Wife

1991

Comedy • Fantasy • Romance

as Stella Keefover

5.7(169)

1.3

The Long Walk Home

1990

Drama • History

as Narrator (voice)

7.6(141)

1.2

Sanford Meisner: The American Theatre's Best Kept Secret

1990

Documentary • TV Movie

as Self

0(0)

0.2

The Secrets of the 'Back to the Future' Trilogy

1990

Adventure • Comedy • Documentary • Science Fiction

as Self

5(11)

0.2

Back to the Future Part III

1990

Adventure • Comedy • Science Fiction

as Clara Clayton

7.5(10,838)

6.7

Parenthood

1989

Comedy • Drama • Family • Romance

as Karen Buckman

6.7(656)

2.1

Broadway's Dreamers: The Legacy of the Group Theatre

1989

Documentary • TV Movie

as Herself

0(0)

0.2

Miss Firecracker

1989

Comedy

as Elaine Rutledge

5.6(26)

The Attic: The Hiding of Anne Frank

1988

Drama • History • War

as Miep Gies

6.5(5)

0.4

The Whales of August

1987

Drama

as Young Sarah

7(72)

0.6

End of the Line

1987

Action • Drama

as Rose Pickett

5.2(14)

0.4

Dead of Winter

1987

Horror • Thriller

as Julie Rose / Katie McGovern / Evelyn

6(109)

0.6

One Magic Christmas

1985

Family • Fantasy

as Ginny Grainger

5.8(104)

1.3

Little Red Riding Hood

1983

Fantasy • TV Movie

as Little Red Riding Hood a.k.a. Mary

6.3(5)

0.3

Romantic Comedy

1983

Comedy • Romance

as Phoebe Craddock

5.2(20)

0.6

Cross Creek

1983

Drama • Romance

as Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings

6.6(24)

0.4

A Midsummer Night's Sex Comedy

1982

Comedy • Romance

as Adrian

6.5(435)

0.8

Ragtime

1981

Drama • History

as Mother

7(168)

1.4

Melvin and Howard

1980

Comedy • Drama

as Lynda Dummar

6.4(66)

0.5

Time After Time

1979

Adventure • Comedy • Drama • Science Fiction • Thriller

as Amy Robbins

6.8(350)

1.1

Goin' South

1978

Comedy • Romance • Western

as Julia Tate

5.8(145)

0.9

Last Train to Fortune

0(0)

0.2

Let's Have Kids!

Comedy

0(0)

0.2

The Dink

Comedy

0(0)

0.6