1. Mary Megan Winningham, known professionally as Mare Winningham, is an American actress and singer-songwriter.
24 Facts About Mare Winningham
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Mare Winningham is the recipient of two Primetime Emmy Awards and has been nominated for an Academy Award, two Golden Globe Awards, and two Tony Awards.
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Mare Winningham was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for the 1995 film Georgia.
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Mare Winningham made her New York stage debut in the 2007 Off-Broadway musical 10 Million Miles, for which she received a Drama Desk Award nomination.
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Mare Winningham made her Broadway debut in the 2013 revival of Picnic.
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Mare Winningham was born in Phoenix, Arizona, and raised in Northridge, California.
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Mare Winningham is the daughter of Marilyn Jean and Sam Neal Winningham.
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Mare Winningham's father was football coach, athletic director and later the chairman of the Department of Physical Education at California State University, Northridge, and her mother was an English teacher and college counselor at Monroe High School and Grant High School.
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Mare Winningham attended Andasol Avenue Elementary School, where her favorite activities included drama and playing the guitar and drums.
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Mare Winningham took the extended drama option at Patrick Henry Junior High School and continued to study over her summer vacations at CSUN's Teenage Drama Workshop.
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In grade 12, Mare Winningham starred in a production of The Sound of Music, playing the part of Maria, opposite classmate Kevin Spacey as Captain Von Trapp.
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Mare Winningham graduated co-valedictorian of her high school class in 1977.
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In 1980, Mare Winningham starred in Off the Minnesota Strip playing a young prostitute.
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Mare Winningham then won an Emmy Award for Best Supporting Actress in a Miniseries or a Movie for her role in the critically acclaimed Amber Waves, a television film about a rough farmer who finds he is dying of cancer.
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In 1983, Mare Winningham was nominated for a Canadian Genie Award for her work in the futuristic 1981 drama Threshold, and appeared in the 1983 epic miniseries The Thorn Birds, in which she played Justine O'Neill.
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Mare Winningham achieved greater fame co-starring in St Elmo's Fire, alongside the other original "brat pack" alumni.
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In 1988, Mare Winningham starred in the Los Angeles stage production of Hurlyburly with Sean Penn and Danny Aiello.
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Mare Winningham appeared in the independent film Dandelion, which was a staple of film festivals worldwide between 2003 and 2004 and had a limited American release in October 2005.
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In 2006, Mare Winningham voiced the audio version of Stephen King's Lisey's Story.
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In 2010, Mare Winningham starred in an episode of Cold Case as main character Lilly Rush's stepmother, Celeste Cooper.
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Mare Winningham has alternated her film career with a music career, and has used some of her films as a way to showcase her singing.
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Mare Winningham can be heard singing a few bars of "Me and Bobby McGee" in One Trick Pony.
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Mare Winningham appeared as a club singer in the film Teresa's Tattoo, and sang three songs in the film Georgia.
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Mare Winningham converted to Judaism in her early 40s as a personal decision having nothing to do with a marriage, and is an observant Jew.