MARY
STEENBURGEN

Actor

Oscar and Golden Globe winning actress with an applauded career spanning three decades.

This soft-spoken, offbeat, and appealing stage-trained actress won critical acclaim and a Best Supporting Actress Oscar and Golden Globe as Melvin's wife in Jonathan Demme's Melvin and Howard (1980).Pretty, vulnerable, and intelligent, she shines in such films as Goin' South (1973), Time After Time (1979), Woody Allen's A Midsummer Night's Sex Comedy (1982), Parenthood (1989), Back to the Future III (1990), What's Eating Gilbert Grape (1993), Philadelphia (1993), I Am Sam (2001), and Elf (2003).In an applauded career that spans three decades, Mary Steenburgen offers her wisdom and experience, to usher young actors through the process of landing that first role to holding your own as a star.

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AWARDS

  • 1998

    • Screen Actors Guild Award
      Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a TV Movie or Miniseries

  • 1988

    • Emmy Award
      Outstanding Lead Actress in a Miniseries Screen

FILMOGRAPHY