Mary Steenburgen
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.
146 acting credits
Acting · 146
Law & Order: Special Victims Unit
1999
American Dad!
2005
Watch What Happens Live with Andy Cohen
2009
Late Night with Seth Meyers
2014
The Kelly Clarkson Show
2019
Frasier
1993
Curb Your Enthusiasm
2000
The Jennifer Hudson Show
2022
30 Rock
2006
The View
1997
Orange Is the New Black
2013
The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson
2005
LIVE with Kelly and Mark
1988
Justified
2010
Grace and Frankie
2015
Ellen
1994
Becker
1998
Stars in the House
2020
The Good Place
2016
Finding Your Roots
2012
The Oscars
1953
Good Day Live
2001
The Tony Danza Show
2004
The Conners
2018
The Proposal
2009
Joan of Arcadia
2003
Faerie Tale Theatre
1982
The Last Man on Earth
2015
The Help
2011
A Man on the Inside
2024
Wilfred
2011
Reunited Apart
2020
Mr. Mayor
2021
Zoey's Extraordinary Playlist
2020
Bless the Harts
2019
I Am Sam
2001
Elf
2003
On Becoming a God in Central Florida
2019
Back to the Future Part III
1990
Togetherness
2015
Philadelphia
1993
Step Brothers
2008
E!'s 101
2003
What's Eating Gilbert Grape
1993
Back to the Future
1991
Nightmare Alley
2021
Shelley Duvall's Bedtime Stories
1992
Ink
1996
Parenthood
1989
The Brave One
2007
Inland Empire
2006
Gulliver's Travels
1996
Last Vegas
2013
Book Club: The Next Chapter
2023
Powder
1995
Nixon
1995
In the Kitchen with Harry Hamlin
2024
Noah's Ark
1999
Happiest Season
2020
Four Christmases
2008
Tender Is the Night
1985
In the Electric Mist
2009
Last Train to Fortune
2025
Marilyn Hotchkiss' Ballroom Dancing & Charm School
2006
Book Club
2018
The Discovery
2017
A Walk in the Woods
2015
Ragtime
1981
Did You Hear About the Morgans?
2009
Broadway's Dreamers: The Legacy of the Group Theatre
1989
Life as a House
2001
Fight for Your Right Revisited
2011
The One I Love
2014
Clifford
1994
Numb
2007
The Dead Girl
2006
BULLDOZER
2025
Time After Time
1979
The Long Walk Home
1990
The Book of Love
2017
The Butcher's Wife
1991
7 Days in Hell
2015
Dinner for Five
2001
Zoey's Extraordinary Christmas
2021
Goin' South
1978
Song One
2014
Celebrating Betty White: America's Golden Girl
2022
Hope Springs
2003
Dick Van Dyke: 98 Years of Magic
2023
Sanford Meisner: The American Theatre's Best Kept Secret
1990
Elvis & Anabelle
2007
Living with the Dead
2002
Nobel Son
2007
The Grass Harp
1996
The Trumpet of the Swan
2001
30 Rock: A One-Time Special
2020
Honeydripper
2007
Happiness Isn't Everything
—
Earth and the American Dream
1992
Weird: The Al Yankovic Story
2010
Dean
2016
A Midsummer Night's Sex Comedy
1982
Dirty Girl
2010
My Family
1995
The Open Road
2009
Miss Firecracker
1989
The Secrets of the 'Back to the Future' Trilogy
1990
The Dink
2026
One Magic Christmas
1985
Living with the Dead
2002
Melvin and Howard
1980
Picnic
2000
Dead of Winter
1987
The Attic: The Hiding of Anne Frank
1988
The Whales of August
1987
Nobody's Baby
2001
Romantic Comedy
1983
Sunshine State
2002
Pontiac Moon
1994
Outlaw Country
2012
It Runs in the Family
1994
I Do... Until I Don't
2017
Katie Says Goodbye
2018
The Tulsa Lynching of 1921: A Hidden Story
2000
Cross Creek
1983
Wish You Were Dead
2002
End of the Line
1987
Casa de los Babys
2003
Antiquities
2019
Jim Henson's Turkey Hollow
2015
Easy's Waltz
2025
Tales from the Future
2010
Little Red Riding Hood
1983
Brahmin Bulls
2013
Clarkworld
2009
It Must Be Love
2004
Flannery
2019
Let's Have Kids!
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About Sarah
1998
O Lucky Malcolm!
2006
Southern Discomfort
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A Dog’s Perfect Christmas
—
Back to the Future: Dickens of a Christmas
1991
Noah's Ark
1999
Remembering Ragtime
2004
Mrs. Pilgrim Goes to Hollywood
2003