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.
Filmography Dick Van Dyke: 98 Years of Magic
2023
Self
Details Book Club: The Next Chapter
2023
Carol
Details Celebrating Betty White: America's Golden Girl
2022
Self
Details Nightmare Alley
2021
Mrs. Kimball
Details Zoey's Extraordinary Christmas
2021
Maggie Clarke
Details 30 Rock: A One-Time Special
2020
Mary Steenburgen
Details Flannery
2019
Flannery O'Connor (voice)
Details Katie Says Goodbye
2018
Maybelle
Details I Do... Until I Don't
2017
Cybil Burger
Details The Discovery
2017
Interviewer
Details The Book of Love
2017
Julia Mureaux
Details Jim Henson's Turkey Hollow
2015
Aunt Cly
Details A Walk in the Woods
2015
Jeannie
Details 7 Days in Hell
2015
Louisa Poole
Details The One I Love
2014
Mom (voice)
Details Brahmin Bulls
2013
Helen West
Details Outlaw Country
2012
Anastasia Lee
Details Clinton Foundation: Celebrity Division
2011
Self
Details Fight for Your Right Revisited
2011
Café Patron
Details Tales from the Future
2010
Self
Details Weird: The Al Yankovic Story
2010
Mrs. Yankovic
Details Did You Hear About the Morgans?
2009
Emma Wheeler
Details The Proposal
2009
Grace Paxton
Details In the Electric Mist
2009
Bootsie Robicheaux
Details Four Christmases
2008
Marilyn
Details Step Brothers
2008
Nancy Huff
Details Honeydripper
2007
Amanda Winship
Details Nobel Son
2007
Sarah Michaelson
Details Elvis & Anabelle
2007
Geneva Leigh
Details Inland Empire
2006
Visitor #2
Details The Dead Girl
2006
Beverley, Leah's Mother
Details Marilyn Hotchkiss' Ballroom Dancing & Charm School
2006
Marienne Hotchkiss
Details Remembering Ragtime
2004
Mother (archive footage)
Details It Must Be Love
2004
Character TBA
Details Hope Springs
2003
Joanie Fisher
Details Mrs. Pilgrim Goes to Hollywood
2003
Mary
Details Sunshine State
2002
Francine Pinkney
Details Wish You Were Dead
2002
Sally Rider
Details Living with the Dead
2002
Detective Karen Condrin
Details Life As A House
2001
Colleen Beck
Details The Trumpet of the Swan
2001
Mother (voice)
Details The Tulsa Lynching of 1921: A Hidden Story
2000
Character TBA
Details About Sarah
1998
Sarah Elizabeth McCaffrey
Details The Grass Harp
1995
Sister Ida
Details Pontiac Moon
1994
Katherine Bellamy
Details It Runs in the Family
1994
Mrs. Parker (Mother)
Details Philadelphia
1993
Belinda Conine
Details What's Eating Gilbert Grape
1993
Betty Carver
Details Earth and the American Dream
1992
Reader (voice)
Details The Butcher's Wife
1991
Stella Keefover
Details The Long Walk Home
1990
Narrator (voice)
Details Sanford Meisner: The American Theatre's Best Kept Secret
1990
Self
Details The Secrets of the 'Back to the Future' Trilogy
1990
Self
Details Back to the Future Part III
1990
Clara Clayton
Details Parenthood
1989
Karen Buckman
Details Broadway's Dreamers: The Legacy of the Group Theatre
1989
Herself
Details Miss Firecracker
1989
Elaine Rutledge
Details The Attic: The Hiding of Anne Frank
1988
Miep Gies
Details The Whales of August
1987
Young Sarah
Details End of the Line
1987
Rose Pickett
Details Dead of Winter
1987
Julie Rose / Katie McGovern / Evelyn
Details One Magic Christmas
1985
Ginny Grainger
Details Little Red Riding Hood
1983
Little Red Riding Hood a.k.a. Mary
Details Romantic Comedy
1983
Phoebe Craddock
Details Cross Creek
1983
Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings
Details A Midsummer Night's Sex Comedy
1982
Adrian
Details Melvin and Howard
1980
Lynda Dummar
Details Time After Time
1979
Amy Robbins
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