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Personal Info
Known For
Acting
Birthday
February 8, 1953
Place of Birth
Newport, Arkansas, USA
Also Known As
- Mary Nell Steenburgen
- Μάρι Στινμπούργζεν
- مری استینبورگن
Mary Steenburgen
3.1 Popularity
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.
Known For
2.0
Easy's Waltz
2025
🎬
0.0
Kathy
BULLDOZER
2025
7.5
Mona Margadoff
A Man on the Inside
2024
5.0
Self
In the Kitchen with Harry Hamlin
2024
7.8
Self
Dick Van Dyke: 98 Years of Magic
2023
6.3
Carol
Book Club: The Next Chapter
2023
9.5
Self
Celebrating Betty White: America's Golden Girl
2022
7.0
Mrs. Kimball
Nightmare Alley
2021
6.3
Maggie Clarke
Zoey's Extraordinary Christmas
2021
6.5
Adriana
Mr. Mayor
2021
Credits
Easy's Waltz
2025
2.0
🎬
BULLDOZER
as Kathy
2025
0.0
A Man on the Inside
as Mona Margadoff
2024
7.5
In the Kitchen with Harry Hamlin
as Self
2024
5.0
Dick Van Dyke: 98 Years of Magic
as Self
2023
7.8
Book Club: The Next Chapter
as Carol
2023
6.3
Celebrating Betty White: America's Golden Girl
as Self
2022
9.5
Nightmare Alley
as Mrs. Kimball
2021
7.0
Zoey's Extraordinary Christmas
as Maggie Clarke
2021
6.3
Mr. Mayor
as Adriana
2021
6.5
Happiest Season
as Tipper
2020
7.1
30 Rock: A One-Time Special
as Mary Steenburgen
2020
5.6
Reunited Apart
as Self
2020
5.5
Stars in the House
as Self
2020
0.0
Zoey's Extraordinary Playlist
as Maggie Clarke
2020
7.5
Flannery
as Flannery O'Connor (voice)
2019
0.0
Bless the Harts
as Crystalynn (voice)
2019
6.6
The Kelly Clarkson Show
as Self
2019
6.3
On Becoming a God in Central Florida
as Ellen Joy Bonar
2019
6.5
Antiquities
as Dr. Margot
2019
4.3
The Conners
as Marcy Bellinger
2018
7.0
Book Club
as Carol
2018
6.2
Katie Says Goodbye
as Maybelle
2018
6.6
I Do... Until I Don't
as Cybil Burger
2017
4.8
The Discovery
as Interviewer
2017
6.3
The Book of Love
as Julia Mureaux
2017
6.5
The Good Place
as Teacher
2016
8.0
Dean
as Carol
2016
5.8
Jim Henson's Turkey Hollow
as Aunt Cly
2015
5.5
A Walk in the Woods
as Jeannie
2015
6.1
7 Days in Hell
as Louisa Poole
2015
6.5
Grace and Frankie
as Miriam
2015
7.7
The Last Man on Earth
as Gail Klosterman
2015
6.9
Togetherness
as Linda
2015
6.7
The One I Love
as Mom (voice)
2014
6.9
Late Night with Seth Meyers
as Self - Guest
2014
5.3
Song One
as Karen Ellis
2014
5.7
Last Vegas
as Diana Boyle
2013
6.4
Brahmin Bulls
as Helen West
2013
5.0
Orange Is the New Black
as Delia Powell
2013
7.7
Outlaw Country
as Anastasia Lee
2012
6.0
Finding Your Roots
as Self
2012
6.4
🎬
Clinton Foundation: Celebrity Division
as Self
2011
0.0
The Help
as Elaine Stein
2011
8.2
Wilfred
as Catherine Newman
2011
7.6
Fight for Your Right Revisited
as Café Patron
2011
6.5
Tales from the Future
as Self
2010
6.7
Dirty Girl
as Peggy
2010
6.0
Weird: The Al Yankovic Story
as Mrs. Yankovic
2010
6.6
Justified
as Katherine Hale
2010
8.0
Did You Hear About the Morgans?
as Emma Wheeler
2009
5.4
Clarkworld
as Self
2009
10.0
Watch What Happens Live with Andy Cohen
as Self - Guest
2009
5.1
The Proposal
as Grace Paxton
2009
7.2
In the Electric Mist
as Bootsie Robicheaux
2009
6.1
The Open Road
as Katherine
2009
5.2
Four Christmases
as Marilyn
2008
5.8
Step Brothers
as Nancy Huff
2008
6.6
The Brave One
as Carol
2007
6.6
Honeydripper
as Amanda Winship
2007
5.9
Numb
as Dr. Blaine
2007
5.9
Nobel Son
as Sarah Michaelson
2007
6.0
Elvis & Anabelle
as Geneva Leigh
2007
6.8
Inland Empire
as Visitor #2
2006
7.0
The Dead Girl
as Leah's Mother
2006
6.0
30 Rock
as Diana Jessup
2006
7.5
O Lucky Malcolm!
as Self
2006
6.7
Marilyn Hotchkiss' Ballroom Dancing & Charm School
as Marienne Hotchkiss
2006
5.9
The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson
as Self
2005
6.7
Remembering Ragtime
as Mother (archive footage)
2004
0.0
🎬
The Tony Danza Show
as Self - Guest
2004
6.1
It Must Be Love
as Clem Gazelle
2004
4.4
Elf
as Emily
2003
6.7
Joan of Arcadia
as Helen Girardi
2003
7.3
Casa de los Babys
as Gayle
2003
5.4
🎬
E!'s 101
as Self
2003
0.0
Hope Springs
as Joanie Fisher
2003
5.3
Mrs. Pilgrim Goes to Hollywood
as Mary
2003
0.0
Sunshine State
as Francine Pinkney
2002
6.3
Wish You Were Dead
as Sally Rider
2002
4.9
Living with the Dead
as Detective Karen Condrin
2002
5.3
Living with the Dead
as Detective Karen Condrin
2002
0.0
I Am Sam
as Dr. Blake
2001
7.6
Life as a House
as Colleen Beck
2001
7.1
🎬
Good Day Live
as Self
2001
3.0
Dinner for Five
2001
8.2
The Trumpet of the Swan
as Mother (voice)
2001
5.5
Nobody's Baby
as Estelle
2001
5.1
Curb Your Enthusiasm
as Mary Steenburgen
2000
8.0
The Tulsa Lynching of 1921: A Hidden Story
2000
0.0
Picnic
as Rosemary Sydney
2000
3.7
Law & Order: Special Victims Unit
as Grace Rinato
1999
7.9
Noah's Ark
as Naamah
1999
4.3
Becker
as Patient (uncredited)
1998
7.1
About Sarah
as Sarah Elizabeth McCaffrey
1998
6.0
The View
as Self
1997
4.3
Ink
as Kate Montgomery
1996
4.0
The Grass Harp
as Sister Ida
1996
5.8
Gulliver's Travels
as Mary Gulliver
1996
7.1
Nixon
as Hannah Nixon
1995
6.9
Powder
as Jessie Caldwell
1995
7.0
My Family
as Gloria
1995
7.4
Pontiac Moon
as Katherine Bellamy
1994
5.4
It Runs in the Family
as Mrs. Parker (Mother)
1994
5.4
Clifford
as Sarah Davis
1994
5.1
Ellen
as Self (uncredited)
1994
6.1
Philadelphia
as Belinda Conine
1993
7.7
What's Eating Gilbert Grape
as Betty Carver
1993
7.7
Frasier
as Marjorie (voice)
1993
7.7
Earth and the American Dream
as Reader (voice)
1992
6.7
Shelley Duvall's Bedtime Stories
as Narrator (voice)
1992
10.0
Back to the Future: Dickens of a Christmas
as Clara Clayton Brown (voice)
1991
0.0
The Butcher's Wife
as Stella Keefover
1991
5.7
Back to the Future
as Clara Clayton (voice)
1991
6.1
The Long Walk Home
as Narrator (voice)
1990
7.6
🎬
Sanford Meisner: The American Theatre's Best Kept Secret
as Self
1990
0.0
The Secrets of the 'Back to the Future' Trilogy
as Self
1990
4.8
Back to the Future Part III
as Clara Clayton
1990
7.5
Parenthood
as Karen Buckman
1989
6.7
🎬
Broadway's Dreamers: The Legacy of the Group Theatre
as Self (voice)
1989
0.0
Miss Firecracker
as Elaine Rutledge
1989
5.6
LIVE with Kelly and Mark
as Self - Guest
1988
5.4
The Attic: The Hiding of Anne Frank
as Miep Gies
1988
6.5
The Whales of August
as Young Sarah
1987
7.0
End of the Line
as Rose Pickett
1987
5.2
Dead of Winter
as Julie Rose / Katie McGovern / Evelyn
1987
6.0
One Magic Christmas
as Ginny Grainger
1985
5.9
Tender Is the Night
as Nicole Diver (née Warren)
1985
6.3
Little Red Riding Hood
as Little Red Riding Hood a.k.a. Mary
1983
6.3
Romantic Comedy
as Phoebe Craddock
1983
5.0
Cross Creek
as Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings
1983
6.6
Faerie Tale Theatre
as Mary / Little Red Riding Hood
1982
8.1
A Midsummer Night's Sex Comedy
as Adrian
1982
6.5
Ragtime
as Mother
1981
7.0
Melvin and Howard
as Lynda Dummar
1980
6.4
Time After Time
as Amy Robbins
1979
6.8
Goin' South
as Julia Tate
1978
5.8
The Oscars
as Self
1953
7.0
Last Train to Fortune
N/A
0.0
Let's Have Kids!
as Sue
N/A
0.0
🎬
A Dog’s Perfect Christmas
N/A
0.0
🎬
Happiness Isn't Everything
as Audrey Veill
N/A
0.0
🎬
The Dink
N/A
0.0