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