Mary Steenburgen
Acting
1953-02-08 · 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.
Filmography
TheatersThe Dink
2026 · Movie
Last Train to Fortune
2025 · Movie
Easy's Waltz
2025 · Movie
BULLDOZER
2025 · Series
A Man on the Inside
2024 · Series
In the Kitchen with Harry Hamlin
2024 · Series
Dick Van Dyke: 98 Years of Magic
2023 · Movie
Book Club: The Next Chapter
2023 · Movie
The Jennifer Hudson Show
2022 · Series
Celebrating Betty White: America's Golden Girl
2022 · Movie
Nightmare Alley
2021 · Movie
Zoey's Extraordinary Christmas
2021 · Movie
Mr. Mayor
2021 · Series
Happiest Season
2020 · Movie
Best Summer Ever
2020 · Movie
30 Rock: A One-Time Special
2020 · Movie
Reunited Apart
2020 · Series
Stars in the House
2020 · Series
Zoey's Extraordinary Playlist
2020 · Series
Flannery
2019 · Movie
Bless the Harts
2019 · Series
The Kelly Clarkson Show
2019 · Series
On Becoming a God in Central Florida
2019 · Series
Antiquities
2019 · Movie
The Conners
2018 · Series
Book Club
2018 · Movie
Katie Says Goodbye
2018 · Movie
I Do... Until I Don't
2017 · Movie
The Discovery
2017 · Movie
The Book of Love
2017 · Movie
The Good Place
2016 · Series
Dean
2016 · Movie
Jim Henson's Turkey Hollow
2015 · Movie
A Walk in the Woods
2015 · Movie
7 Days in Hell
2015 · Movie
Grace and Frankie
2015 · Series
The Last Man on Earth
2015 · Series
Togetherness
2015 · Series
The One I Love
2014 · Movie
Late Night with Seth Meyers
2014 · Series
The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon
2014 · Series
Song One
2014 · Movie
Last Vegas
2013 · Movie
Brahmin Bulls
2013 · Movie
Orange Is the New Black
2013 · Series
Outlaw Country
2012 · Movie
Finding Your Roots
2012 · Series
The Help
2011 · Movie
Wilfred
2011 · Series
Fight for Your Right Revisited
2011 · Movie
Tales from the Future
2010 · Movie
The Talk
2010 · Series
Dirty Girl
2010 · Movie
Weird: The Al Yankovic Story
2010 · Movie
Justified
2010 · Series
Did You Hear About the Morgans?
2009 · Movie
Clarkworld
2009 · Movie
Bored to Death
2009 · Series
Watch What Happens Live with Andy Cohen
2009 · Series
The Proposal
2009 · Movie
In the Electric Mist
2009 · Movie
The Open Road
2009 · Movie
Four Christmases
2008 · Movie
Step Brothers
2008 · Movie
The Brave One
2007 · Movie
Honeydripper
2007 · Movie
Numb
2007 · Movie
Nobel Son
2007 · Movie
Elvis & Anabelle
2007 · Movie
Inland Empire
2006 · Movie
The Dead Girl
2006 · Movie
30 Rock
2006 · Series
O Lucky Malcolm!
2006 · Movie
Bye Bye Benjamin
2006 · Movie
Marilyn Hotchkiss' Ballroom Dancing & Charm School
2006 · Movie
American Dad!
2005 · Series
The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson
2005 · Series
Elf: That's a Wrap
2004 · Movie
Remembering Ragtime
2004 · Movie
The Tony Danza Show
2004 · Series
It Must Be Love
2004 · Movie
Elf
2003 · Movie
Joan of Arcadia
2003 · Series
Casa de los Babys
2003 · Movie
E!'s 101
2003 · Series
Hope Springs
2003 · Movie
Mrs. Pilgrim Goes to Hollywood
2003 · Movie
Sunshine State
2002 · Movie
Wish You Were Dead
2002 · Movie
Living with the Dead
2002 · Series
Living with the Dead
2002 · Movie
Character Building: Inside 'Life As a House'
2002 · Movie
I Am Sam
2001 · Movie
Life as a House
2001 · Movie
Good Day Live
2001 · Series
Dinner for Five
2001 · Series
The Trumpet of the Swan
2001 · Movie
Nobody's Baby
2001 · Movie
Curb Your Enthusiasm
2000 · Series
The Tulsa Lynching of 1921: A Hidden Story
2000 · Movie
Picnic
2000 · Movie
Law & Order: Special Victims Unit
1999 · Series
Noah's Ark
1999 · Series
Becker
1998 · Series
About Sarah
1998 · Movie
The View
1997 · Series
Ink
1996 · Series
The Grass Harp
1996 · Movie
Gulliver's Travels
1996 · Series
Nixon
1995 · Movie
Powder
1995 · Movie
My Family
1995 · Movie
Pontiac Moon
1994 · Movie
It Runs in the Family
1994 · Movie
Clifford
1994 · Movie
Ellen
1994 · Series
Philadelphia
1993 · Movie
What's Eating Gilbert Grape
1993 · Movie
Frasier
1993 · Series
Earth and the American Dream
1992 · Movie
Shelley Duvall's Bedtime Stories
1992 · Series
Back to the Future: Dickens of a Christmas
1991 · Movie
The Butcher's Wife
1991 · Movie
Back to the Future
1991 · Series
The Long Walk Home
1990 · Movie
Sanford Meisner: The American Theatre's Best Kept Secret
1990 · Movie
The Secrets of the 'Back to the Future' Trilogy
1990 · Movie
Back to the Future Part III
1990 · Movie
Parenthood
1989 · Movie
Broadway's Dreamers: The Legacy of the Group Theatre
1989 · Movie
Miss Firecracker
1989 · Movie
LIVE with Kelly and Mark
1988 · Series
The Attic: The Hiding of Anne Frank
1988 · Movie
The Whales of August
1987 · Movie
End of the Line
1987 · Movie
Dead of Winter
1987 · Movie
One Magic Christmas
1985 · Movie
Tender Is the Night
1985 · Series
Little Red Riding Hood
1983 · Movie
Romantic Comedy
1983 · Movie
Cross Creek
1983 · Movie
Faerie Tale Theatre
1982 · Series
A Midsummer Night's Sex Comedy
1982 · Movie
Ragtime
1981 · Movie
Melvin and Howard
1980 · Movie
Time After Time
1979 · Movie
Goin' South
1978 · Movie
The Oscars
1953 · Series
Southern Discomfort
Series
Happiness Isn't Everything
Series
Let's Have Kids!
Movie
A Dog’s Perfect Christmas
Movie