Cast
Mary Steenburgen
Acting
Cast
Mary Steenburgen
Known for
Acting
Born
1953-02-08
From
Newport, Arkansas, USA
Also known as Mary Nell 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.
★7.2
MOVIE2009
The Proposal
as Grace Paxton
★8.2
MOVIE2011
The Help
as Elaine Stein
★7.5
MOVIE1990
Back to the Future Part III
as Clara Clayton
★6.7
MOVIE2003
Elf
as Emily
★7.7
MOVIE1993
What's Eating Gilbert Grape
as Betty Carver
★6.6
MOVIE2008
Step Brothers
as Nancy Huff
★6.9
MOVIE2021
Nightmare Alley
as Mrs. Kimball
★6.4
MOVIE2013
Last Vegas
as Diana Boyle
★7.7
MOVIE1993
Philadelphia
as Belinda Conine
★7.6
MOVIE2001
I Am Sam
as Dr. Blake
★7.0
MOVIE1995
Powder
as Jessie Caldwell
★6.3
MOVIE2017
The Discovery
as Interviewer
MOVIE2026
The Dink
as Candace
★6.6
MOVIE2007
The Brave One
as Carol
★6.2
MOVIE2018
Book Club
as Carol
★6.1
MOVIE2015
A Walk in the Woods
as Jeannie
★7.1
MOVIE2020
Happiest Season
as Tipper
★7.0
MOVIE2006
Inland Empire
as Visitor #2
★5.8
MOVIE2008
Four Christmases
as Marilyn
★6.3
MOVIE2023
Book Club: The Next Chapter
as Carol
★6.0
MOVIE2010
Dirty Girl
as Peggy
★6.9
MOVIE2014
The One I Love
as Mom (voice)
★6.1
MOVIE2025
Last Train to Fortune
as Miss Maybelle
★6.1
MOVIE2009
In the Electric Mist
as Bootsie Robicheaux
★6.7
MOVIE1989
Parenthood
as Karen Buckman
★6.5
MOVIE2015
7 Days in Hell
as Louisa Poole
★7.1
MOVIE2001
Life as a House
as Colleen Beck
★5.6
MOVIE2001
The Trumpet of the Swan
as Mother (voice)
★6.0
MOVIE2006
The Dead Girl
as Leah's Mother
★7.6
MOVIE1990
The Long Walk Home
as Narrator (voice)
★7.4
MOVIE1995
My Family
as Gloria
★5.3
MOVIE2003
Hope Springs
as Joanie Fisher
★5.9
MOVIE2007
Numb
as Dr. Blaine
★6.8
MOVIE1979
Time After Time
as Amy Robbins
★6.4
MOVIE2021
Zoey's Extraordinary Christmas
as Maggie Clarke
★6.0
MOVIE2012
Outlaw Country
as Anastasia Lee
★6.8
MOVIE1995
Nixon
as Hannah Nixon
★5.4
MOVIE2009
Did You Hear About the Morgans?
as Emma Wheeler
★5.9
MOVIE1985
One Magic Christmas
as Ginny Grainger
MOVIE2019
Flannery
as Flannery O'Connor (voice)
★6.6
MOVIE2011
Fight for Your Right Revisited
as Café Patron
★6.1
MOVIE2010
Tales from the Future
as Self
★6.5
MOVIE2018
Katie Says Goodbye
as Maybelle
★6.6
MOVIE1983
Cross Creek
as Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings
★5.7
MOVIE1991
The Butcher's Wife
as Stella Keefover
★6.4
MOVIE2017
The Book of Love
as Julia Mureaux
★7.0
MOVIE1981
Ragtime
as Mother
★5.7
MOVIE2014
Song One
as Karen Ellis
★5.9
MOVIE2006
Marilyn Hotchkiss' Ballroom Dancing & Charm School
as Marienne Hotchkiss
★6.3
MOVIE2020
30 Rock: A One-Time Special
as Mary Steenburgen
★6.5
MOVIE1982
A Midsummer Night's Sex Comedy
as Adrian
★5.5
MOVIE2002
Living with the Dead
as Detective Karen Condrin
★6.7
MOVIE1992
Earth and the American Dream
as Reader (voice)
★5.8
MOVIE1978
Goin' South
as Julia Tate
★5.1
MOVIE1994
Clifford
as Sarah Davis
★6.7
MOVIE2007
Elvis & Anabelle
as Geneva Leigh
★4.7
MOVIE2017
I Do... Until I Don't
as Cybil Burger
★5.9
MOVIE2007
Honeydripper
as Amanda Winship
★5.1
MOVIE1983
Romantic Comedy
as Phoebe Craddock
★5.0
MOVIE2002
Wish You Were Dead
as Sally Rider
★5.9
MOVIE1996
The Grass Harp
as Sister Ida
★7.0
MOVIE1987
The Whales of August
as Young Sarah
★5.8
MOVIE1989
Miss Firecracker
as Elaine Rutledge
MOVIE2004
Elf: That's a Wrap
as Self
★5.2
MOVIE2009
The Open Road
as Katherine
★6.0
MOVIE1987
Dead of Winter
as Julie Rose / Katie McGovern / Evelyn
★7.0
MOVIE2023
Dick Van Dyke: 98 Years of Magic
as Self
★6.1
MOVIE2007
Nobel Son
as Sarah Michaelson
MOVIETBA
A Dog’s Perfect Christmas
as Claire
★5.4
MOVIE1994
It Runs in the Family
as Mrs. Parker (Mother)
MOVIE2004
Remembering Ragtime
as Mother (archive footage)
MOVIE2002
Character Building: Inside 'Life As a House'
as Self
★5.3
MOVIE1987
End of the Line
as Rose Pickett
MOVIETBA
Let's Have Kids!
as Sue
★10.0
MOVIE2009
Clarkworld
as Self
MOVIE2003
Mrs. Pilgrim Goes to Hollywood
as Mary
★6.4
MOVIE2002
Sunshine State
as Francine Pinkney
★6.4
MOVIE1983
Little Red Riding Hood
as Little Red Riding Hood a.k.a. Mary
★6.6
MOVIE2010
Weird: The Al Yankovic Story
as Mrs. Yankovic
MOVIE1999
Noah's Ark
as Naamah
★6.5
MOVIE1980
Melvin and Howard
as Lynda Dummar
MOVIE1990
Sanford Meisner: The American Theatre's Best Kept Secret
as Self
★4.9
MOVIE1990
The Secrets of the 'Back to the Future' Trilogy
as Self
★6.6
MOVIE2006
O Lucky Malcolm!
as Self
★2.0
MOVIE2025
Easy's Waltz
★5.5
MOVIE1994
Pontiac Moon
as Katherine Bellamy
★5.8
MOVIE2016
Dean
as Carol
★5.2
MOVIE2001
Nobody's Baby
as Estelle
★5.6
MOVIE2015
Jim Henson's Turkey Hollow
as Aunt Cly
★4.9
MOVIE2004
It Must Be Love
as Clem Gazelle
★9.0
MOVIE2000
The Tulsa Lynching of 1921: A Hidden Story
★6.8
MOVIE1998
About Sarah
as Sarah Elizabeth McCaffrey
MOVIE1989
Broadway's Dreamers: The Legacy of the Group Theatre
as Self (voice)
★7.0
MOVIE2022
Celebrating Betty White: America's Golden Girl
as Self
★5.3
MOVIE2000
Picnic
as Rosemary Sydney
MOVIE1991
Back to the Future: Dickens of a Christmas
as Clara Clayton Brown (voice)
★5.5
MOVIE2003
Casa de los Babys
as Gayle
★4.3
MOVIE2019
Antiquities
as Dr. Margot
★7.1
MOVIE1988
The Attic: The Hiding of Anne Frank
as Miep Gies
★5.0
MOVIE2013
Brahmin Bulls
as Helen West