Mary Steenburgen
Acting
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.
As actor 151
Watch What Happens Live with Andy Cohen
2009
Law & Order: Special Victims Unit
1999
The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon
2014
American Dad!
2005
Late Night with Seth Meyers
2014
The Kelly Clarkson Show
2019
Frasier
1993
The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson
2005
The View
1997
The Jennifer Hudson Show
2022
Orange Is the New Black
2013
LIVE with Kelly and Mark
1988
30 Rock
2006
Curb Your Enthusiasm
2000
Justified
2010
The Talk
2010
Good Day Live
2001
Grace and Frankie
2015
The Good Place
2016
Ellen
1994
The Proposal
2009
The Tony Danza Show
2004
Finding Your Roots
2012
A Man on the Inside
2024
Becker
1998
The Help
2011
The Conners
2018
Joan of Arcadia
2003
The Last Man on Earth
2015
Stars in the House
2020
The Oscars
1953
Faerie Tale Theatre
1982
Back to the Future Part III
1990
The Dink
2026
Nightmare Alley
2021
Wilfred
2011
I Am Sam
2001
Elf
2003
Bored to Death
2009
What's Eating Gilbert Grape
1993
Philadelphia
1993
Step Brothers
2008
Back to the Future
1991
Bless the Harts
2019
Zoey's Extraordinary Playlist
2020
Last Vegas
2013
Togetherness
2015
Clifford
1994
The Brave One
2007
E!'s 101
2003
Four Christmases
2008
Inland Empire
2006
Mr. Mayor
2021
Shelley Duvall's Bedtime Stories
1992
Did You Hear About the Morgans?
2009
Happiest Season
2020
Book Club
2018
Ink
1996
On Becoming a God in Central Florida
2019
The Discovery
2017
The Dead Girl
2006
Powder
1995
In the Electric Mist
2009
Gulliver's Travels
1996
Time After Time
1979
Parenthood
1989
Reunited Apart
2020
The One I Love
2014
Nobel Son
2007
My Family
1995
Nixon
1995
Dirty Girl
2010
A Walk in the Woods
2015
Life as a House
2001
Last Train to Fortune
2026
The Long Walk Home
1990
Book Club: The Next Chapter
2023
Goin' South
1978
Noah's Ark
1999
7 Days in Hell
2015
Hope Springs
2003
Tender Is the Night
1985
A Midsummer Night's Sex Comedy
1982
The Butcher's Wife
1991
Dead of Winter
1987
The Grass Harp
1996
Katie Says Goodbye
2018
Zoey's Extraordinary Christmas
2021
Numb
2007
Ragtime
1981
In the Kitchen with Harry Hamlin
2024
One Magic Christmas
1985
Flannery
2019
Cross Creek
1983
Southern Discomfort
The Book of Love
2017
Song One
2014
Marilyn Hotchkiss' Ballroom Dancing & Charm School
2006
Melvin and Howard
1980
The Trumpet of the Swan
2001
I Do... Until I Don't
2017
The Open Road
2009
Reinventing the Wheelers
2007
Happiness Isn't Everything
Outlaw Country
2012
Honeydripper
2007
Romantic Comedy
1983
Sunshine State
2002
Dean
2016
The Whales of August
1987
It Runs in the Family
1994
Dinner for Five
2001
Dick Van Dyke: 98 Years of Magic
2023
Easy's Waltz
2025
30 Rock: A One-Time Special
2020
Elvis & Anabelle
2007
Living with the Dead
2002
Broadway's Dreamers: The Legacy of the Group Theatre
1989
A Dog’s Perfect Christmas
2026
Sanford Meisner: The American Theatre's Best Kept Secret
1990
Pontiac Moon
1994
Living with the Dead
2002
Miss Firecracker
1989
Picnic
2000
End of the Line
1987
The Secrets of the 'Back to the Future' Trilogy
1990
Wish You Were Dead
2002
Character Building: Inside 'Life As a House'
2002
Earth and the American Dream
1992
Celebrating Betty White: America's Golden Girl
2022
Clarkworld
2009
Fight for Your Right Revisited
2011
Nobody's Baby
2001
BULLDOZER
2025
Casa de los Babys
2003
Tales from the Future
2010
Antiquities
2019
Back to the Future: Dickens of a Christmas
1991
Elf: That's a Wrap
2004
Jim Henson's Turkey Hollow
2015
Weird: The Al Yankovic Story
2010
Mrs. Pilgrim Goes to Hollywood
2003
The Tulsa Lynching of 1921: A Hidden Story
2000
The Attic: The Hiding of Anne Frank
1988
Little Red Riding Hood
1983
About Sarah
1998
Let's Have Kids!
Remembering Ragtime
2004
Brahmin Bulls
2013
It Must Be Love
2004
O Lucky Malcolm!
2006
