Mary Steenburgen
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.
The Proposal
as Grace PaxtonWhen she learns she's in danger of losing her visa status and being deported, overbearing book...
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Movie pageThe Help
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Movie pageThe Long Walk Home
as Narrator (voice)Two women, black and white, in 1955 Montgomery Alabama, must decide what they are going to do in...
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as CarolFour best friends take their book club to Italy for the fun girls' trip they never had. When...
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as CarolFour lifelong friends decide that their lives could change by becoming nasty and reading Fifty...
Movie pageGoin' South
as Julia TateHenry Moon is captured for a capital offense by a posse when his horse quits while trying to...
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Movie pageThe One I Love
as Mom (voice)Ethan and Sophie are a married couple on the brink of separation when, at the urging of their...
Movie pageKatie Says Goodbye
as MaybelleA kindhearted seventeen-year-old in the American Southwest turns to prostitution to fulfill her...
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Movie pageNobel Son
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Movie pageClifford
as Sarah DavisWhen his brother asks him to look after his young son, Clifford, Martin Daniels agrees, taking...
Movie pageRagtime
as MotherA young black pianist becomes embroiled in the lives of an upper-class white family set among...
Movie pageElvis & Anabelle
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Movie pageNixon
as Hannah NixonA look at President Richard M. Nixon—a man carrying the fate of the world on his shoulders while...
Movie page7 Days in Hell
as Louisa PooleA fictional documentary-style expose on the rivalry between two tennis stars who battled it out...
Movie pageMy Family
as GloriaTraces over three generations an immigrant family's trials, tribulations, tragedies, and...
Movie pageSong One
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Movie pageDean
as CarolA freelance illustrator in New York suffers a quarter-life crisis and leaves his home for the...
Movie pageThe Dead Girl
as Beverley, Leah's MotherThe clues to a young woman's death come together as the lives of seemingly unrelated people...
Movie pageThe Open Road
as KatherineMinor leaguer Carlton Garret takes an unexpected road trip to track down his estranged father,...
Movie pageA Midsummer Night's Sex Comedy
as AdrianA nutty inventor, his frustrated wife, a philosopher cousin, his much younger fiancée, a randy...
Movie pageHope Springs
as Joanie FisherBritish artist Colin Ware discovers that his fiancée, Vera, is going to marry another man....
Movie pageI Do... Until I Don't
as Cybil BurgerIn Vero Beach, Florida, a trio of couples at various points in their relationships become the...
Movie pageMarilyn Hotchkiss' Ballroom Dancing & Charm School
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Movie pageThe Attic: The Hiding of Anne Frank
as Miep GiesDuring the Nazi occupation of Amsterdam, Otto Frank decides to hide his family, who are Jewish,...
Movie pageFight for Your Right Revisited
as Café PatronFight for Your Right Revisited stars Danny McBride, Seth Rogen, and Elijah Wood as the "young"...
Movie pageMiss Firecracker
as Elaine RutledgeCarnelle Scott is a restless Mississippi girl looking for a life change. She decides to enter a...
Movie pageDirty Girl
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Movie pageZoey's Extraordinary Christmas
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Movie pageCross Creek
as Marjorie Kinnan RawlingsIn the 1930s, Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings moves to Florida's backwaters to write in peace. She...
Movie pageRomantic Comedy
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Movie pageDead of Winter
as Julie Rose / Katie McGovern / EvelynA fledgling actress is lured to a remote mansion for a screen-test, soon discovering she is...
Movie pageCasa de los Babys
as GayleA group of women, including Skipper, the wealthy young Jennifer and the domineering Nan, journey...
Movie pageThe Trumpet of the Swan
as Mother (voice)The adventures of a young Trumpeter swan who cannot speak. With the help of a human boy and the...
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as Young SarahTwo aged sisters reflect on life and the past during a late summer day in Maine.
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as Mrs. YankovicA fictional biographical film about ‘Weird Al’ Yankovic that parodies other films based on...
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Movie pageMelvin and Howard
as Lynda DummarThe story of hard-luck Melvin Dummar, who claimed to have received a will naming him an heir to...
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as SelfCBS presents DICK VAN DYKE 98 YEARS OF MAGIC, an unforgettable special celebrating the legendary...
Movie pageIt Runs in the Family
as Mrs. Parker (Mother)It is now summer in the Parker family; and the usual amount of numerous events are happening in...
Movie pageO Lucky Malcolm!
as SelfActor Malcolm McDowell talks about his life and career. With interviews featuring his friends,...
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Movie pageEnd of the Line
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as Detective Karen CondrinA man begins to have disturbing visions of dead people, among whom are his mother and victims of...
Movie pageThe Secrets of the 'Back to the Future' Trilogy
as SelfThe Secrets of the Back to the Future Trilogy was a program hosted by Kirk Cameron. The show...
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as EstelleTwo not so bright small time crooks end up with a baby girl by "accident" and find a change in...
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as Sarah Elizabeth McCaffreyWhen the matriarch of the family suddenly dies, custody of a mentally disabled mother is...
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as Sally RiderTwo bad women fight over one man in a back-stabbing, money-grabbing, insurance-hustling,...
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as Francine PinkneyA woman and her new husband returns to her hometown roots in coastal northern Florida, and must...
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as Mother (archive footage)Memories from the making of the classic Milos Forman film "Ragtime".
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as Mary SteenburgenIn a one-time special event featuring all the beloved characters from the original series, Liz...
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as Anastasia LeeA crime thriller/family drama set against the backdrop of southern organized crime and Nashville...
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as Aunt ClyWhile visiting their kooky aunt, two siblings go hunting for a Bigfoot-like creature called the...
Movie pageEarth and the American Dream
as Reader (voice)A beautiful and disturbing film recounts America’s story from the environment’s point of view....
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as Helen WestWhen Ashok makes a surprise visit to Los Angeles to visit his estranged son, the two begin a...
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as Rosemary SydneyThe son of the richest man in town wants to marry the town's beauty queen, but she meets a more...
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as uncreditedDocuments the race riot of 1921 and the destruction of the African-American community of...
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Movie pageTales from the Future
as SelfEighy-part retrospective documentary on the making of "Back to the Future" (and its two sequels)...
Movie pageFlannery
as Flannery O'Connor (voice)Explore the life of Flannery O’Connor whose provocative fiction was unlike anything published...
Movie pageClarkworld
as SelfDocumentary on the life and death of Bob Clark, a director of movies such as Christmas Story,...
Movie pageIt Must Be Love
as uncreditedA couple decides to settle their divorce in a civilized manner without lawyers, which brings...
Movie pageLaw & Order: Special Victims Unit
as Grace RinatoIn the criminal justice system, sexually-based offenses are considered especially heinous. In...
TV Show pageLate Night with Seth Meyers
as SelfSeth Meyers, who is "Saturday Night Live’s" longest serving anchor on the show’s wildly popular...
TV Show pageWatch What Happens Live with Andy Cohen
as Self - GuestBravo network executive Andy Cohen discusses pop culture topics with celebrities and reality...
TV Show pageThe Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson
as SelfThe Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson is an American late-night talk show hosted by Scottish...
TV Show pageFrasier
as Marjorie (voice)After many years spent at the “Cheers” bar, Frasier moves back home to Seattle to work as a...
TV Show pageCurb Your Enthusiasm
as Mary SteenburgenThe off-kilter, unscripted comic vision of Larry David, who plays himself in a parallel universe...
TV Show pageOrange Is the New Black
as Delia PowellA crime she committed in her youthful past sends Piper Chapman to a women's prison, where she...
TV Show pageThe Kelly Clarkson Show
as SelfKelly Clarkson presents the biggest newsmakers and names in film, television and music; as well...
TV Show page30 Rock
as Diana JessupLiz Lemon, the head writer for a late-night TV variety show in New York, tries to juggle all the...
TV Show pageThe View
as SelfABC Daytime's morning chatfest, currently featuring Whoopi Goldberg, Joy Behar, Sunny Hostin,...
TV Show pageJustified
as Katherine HaleA character drama based on the 2001 Elmore Leonard short story "Fire in the Hole." Leonard's...
TV Show pageGrace and Frankie
as MiriamElegant, proper Grace and freewheeling, eccentric Frankie are a pair of frenemies whose lives...
TV Show pageThe Good Place
as TeacherEleanor Shellstrop, an ordinary woman who, through an extraordinary string of events, enters the...
TV Show pageBecker
as Patient (uncredited)Becker is a dedicated, outspoken and talented doctor with a gruff exterior. While he tends to...
TV Show pageThe Conners
as Marcy BellingerThis iconic family—Dan, Jackie, Darlene, Becky and D.J.—grapples with parenthood, dating, an...
TV Show pageEllen
as Self (uncredited)Ellen is an American television sitcom that aired on the ABC network from March 29, 1994 to July...
TV Show pageFaerie Tale Theatre
as Mary / Little Red Riding HoodA live-action children's television anthology series retelling popular fairy tales.
TV Show pageThe Last Man on Earth
as Gail KlostermanThe year is 2022, and after an unlikely event, only one man is left on earth: Phil Miller, who...
TV Show pageZoey's Extraordinary Playlist
as Maggie ClarkeAfter an unusual event, Zoey Clarke, a whip-smart computer coder forging her way in San...
TV Show pageJoan of Arcadia
as Helen GirardiJoan Girardi has begun acting a little strange since her family moved to the city of Arcadia. No...
TV Show pageMr. Mayor
as AdrianaA retired businessman runs for mayor of Los Angeles to prove he's "still got it." Once he wins,...
TV Show pageThe Oscars
as Self - PresenterAn annual American awards ceremony honoring cinematic achievements in the film industry. The...
TV Show pageWilfred
as Catherine NewmanEveryone else sees Wilfred as just a dog, but Ryan sees a crude and somewhat surly, yet...
TV Show pageTogetherness
as LindaFour adults nearing 40, living under the same roof, struggle to keep their relationships and...
TV Show pageFinding Your Roots
as SelfNoted Harvard scholar Henry Louis Gates, Jr. has been helping people discover long-lost...
TV Show pageStars in the House
as SelfIn the wake of the Coronavirus pandemic and theatres across the world closing their curtains...
TV Show pageReunited Apart
as SelfJosh Gad reunites the cast and crews of various classic movies, and discusses the the films in...
TV Show pageBless the Harts
as Crystalynn (voice)The lives of a group of Southerners who are always broke as a joke and struggling for the...
TV Show pageGulliver's Travels
as Mary GulliverDr. Gulliver has returned from his journey to his family after a long absence - and tells them...
TV Show pageOn Becoming a God in Central Florida
as Ellen Joy BonarIn the early 1990s, a recently widowed, impoverished Orlando water park employee schemes and...
TV Show pageShelley Duvall's Bedtime Stories
as Narrator (Voice)Actress Shelley Duvall presents charming animated versions of some of the most beloved...
TV Show pageBack to the Future
as Clara Clayton (voice)An animated series for television based on the Back to the Future trilogy of feature...
TV Show pageInk
as Kate MontgomeryInk is a television sitcom which aired on CBS from 1996-1997 that starred real-life husband and...
TV Show pageNoah's Ark
as NaamahIn the Biblical story from Genesis, God floods the world as Noah rescues his family and the...
TV Show pageTender Is the Night
as Nicole Warren DiverDennis Potter adaptation of F. Scott Fitzgerald’s novel about how the rich languoring on the...
TV Show pageDinner for Five
as uncreditedDinner for Five is a television program in which actor/filmmaker Jon Favreau and a revolving...
TV Show pageLiving with the Dead
as Detective Karen CondrinA man begins to have disturbing visions of dead people, among whom are his mother and victims of...
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