Mary Steenburgen

Birthplace: Newport, Arkansas, USA
Birthday: February 8, 1953

This soft-spoken, offbeat, and appealing stage-trained actress won raves and a Best Supporting Actress Oscar as Melvin's flustered but caring wife in Jonathan Demme's "Melvin and Howard" (1980). Mary Steenburgen could have parlayed this triumph into a high profile Hollywood career but opted instead for modest projects, gentle comedies, and occasional genre films. Pretty, vulnerable, and intelligent, she convinces as the thinking man's heartthrob in such charming fantasies as "Time After Time" (1979), as the moder…more

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Actor

The Gift
Catherine
The Attic: The Hiding of Anne Frank
Miep Gies
About Sarah
Sarah
Gulliver's Travels
Mary Gulliver
Tender Is The Night
Nicole Warren Diver

Producer

Ink
Executive Producer

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Career Milestones

2009
Played Ryan Reynolds' mother in the comedy "The Proposal"
2008
Cast as Will Ferrell's mother in the comedy "Step Brothers"
2007
Co-starred with Jodie Foster in the crime drama, "The Brave One"
2006
Played the title role in Randall Miller's "Marilyn Hotchkiss Ballroom Dancing and Charm School"
2003 to 2005
Cast as the title character's mother in the CBS drama "Joan of Arcadia"