Mary Nell Steenburgen is an American actress, comedian, singer, and songwriter.
33 Facts About Mary Steenburgen
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Mary Steenburgen received nominations for a Golden Globe Award for Milos Forman's drama film Ragtime, a BAFTA TV Award for the drama miniseries Tender Is the Night, and a Primetime Emmy Award for the television film The Attic: The Hiding of Anne Frank.
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Mary Steenburgen appeared in many television series and worked as a singer-songwriter for numerous films, in some of which she starred.
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Mary Steenburgen was born February 8,1953, in Newport, Arkansas, to Nellie Mae, a school-board secretary, and Maurice Hoffman Mary Steenburgen, a freight-train conductor who worked for the Missouri Pacific Railroad.
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Mary Steenburgen has a sister, Nancy Kelly, a teacher.
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Mary Steenburgen subsequently traveled to Dallas at the suggestion of her drama teacher where she successfully auditioned for New York City's Neighborhood Playhouse.
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Mary Steenburgen moved to Manhattan in 1972 after the Neighborhood Playhouse offered her an opportunity to study acting.
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Mary Steenburgen worked as a server at The Magic Pan and for Doubleday while studying under William Esper.
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Mary Steenburgen's break came when she was discovered by Jack Nicholson in the reception room of Paramount Pictures's New York office and was cast as the female lead in his second directorial work, the 1978 Western Goin' South.
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Mary Steenburgen had a leading role in the 1979 film Time After Time, for which she won the Saturn Award for Best Actress.
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Mary Steenburgen played a modern woman who falls in love with author H G Wells, played by Malcolm McDowell, whom she married the following year.
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Mary Steenburgen played Lynda Dummar, the wife of Melvin Dummar, a trucker and aspiring singer who claimed to have befriended reclusive eccentric Howard Hughes.
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In Back to the Future Part III Mary Steenburgen played Clara Clayton, a school teacher who falls in love with Doc Brown.
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Mary Steenburgen was persuaded to play the role by her children, as well as by fans of the Back to the Future films, and reprised the role by providing the character's voice in Back to the Future: The Animated Series.
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Mary Steenburgen has appeared in the comedy films Step Brothers, playing the mother of Will Ferrell's character; Four Christmases ; and The Proposal.
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Dirty Girl, which featured Mary Steenburgen, premiered at the Toronto International Film Festival on September 12,2010.
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Mary Steenburgen appeared in the critically acclaimed film The Help and had a featured role as a lounge singer, who is the romantic interest in a love triangle, in the 2013 comedy Last Vegas.
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Mary Steenburgen had a small part in the 2015 film A Walk in the Woods as Jeannie.
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In 2018, Mary Steenburgen starred in the romantic comedy film Book Club.
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Mary Steenburgen has a recurring role as herself in Curb Your Enthusiasm.
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Mary Steenburgen co-starred as Helen Girardi, the mother of Amber Tamblyn's title character in Joan of Arcadia.
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Mary Steenburgen starred as Anastasia Lee in the 2011 FX pilot Outlaw Country, but it was passed by the network.
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Mary Steenburgen appeared in the dark sitcom Wilfred from 2011 through 2013 as Catherine Newman, the title character's eccentric and mentally ill mother.
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Mary Steenburgen had a recurring role on the NBC sitcom 30 Rock from 2012 to 2013 where she played Diana Jessup.
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Mary Steenburgen reprised the role for The Roku Channel television film Zoey's Extraordinary Christmas.
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Mary Steenburgen subsequently took music lessons so that she could write down what she was hearing, and by 2013 had almost 50 songwriting credits.
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Mary Steenburgen has collaborated with musicians from Nashville and was signed to Universal Music as a songwriter.
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On October 30,2020, Mary Steenburgen signed a global publishing deal with Universal Music Publishing Group.
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In 1978, Mary Steenburgen met and began dating actor Malcolm McDowell while both were co-starring in Time After Time.
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On October 7,1995, Mary Steenburgen married actor Ted Danson, whom she had met on the set of the film Pontiac Moon, and became the stepmother to Danson's two daughters from his previous marriage to producer Cassandra Coates.
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In 2006, Mary Steenburgen received an honorary Doctor of Humane Letters degree from Lyon College in Batesville, Arkansas.
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Mary Steenburgen is a friend of former senator and Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and supported, along with Danson, Clinton's 2008 presidential campaign.
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Mary Steenburgen is involved with various groups ranging from human rights to environmental causes.