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Mary Steenburgen is an American actress, singer and songwriter with an Oscar-winning career that spans five decades. After training at New York's Neighborhood Playhouse, she debuted on screen in the Western comedy Goin' South (1978) and drew praise for Time After Time (1979). Her role in Jonathan Demme's Melvin and Howard (1980) won her both the Academy Award and the Golden Globe for Best Supporting Actress, and she earned another Golden Globe nomination for Ragtime (1981). Her films include Cross Creek (1983), Back to the Future Part III (1990), What's Eating Gilbert Grape (1993), Philadelphia (1993), Nixon (1995), Last Vegas (2013), Book Club (2018) and Nightmare Alley (2021), and she became a favorite movie mom in comedies such as Parenthood (1989), Elf (2003), Step Brothers (2008), The Proposal (2009) and The Help (2011). As a songwriter she has written for numerous films, and her song "Glasgow (No Place Like Home)" from Wild Rose (2018) won the Critics' Choice Movie Award for Best Song. She has a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame and received the Bob Hope Humanitarian Award in 2025. Steenburgen brings Southern warmth, humor and music to any stage.
- Active since 1978
- Born in Newport
- Honors: Academy Award, Golden Globe, Arkansas Women's Hall of Fame, Arkansas Entertainers Hall of Fame
- Category: Actor
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Milestones
- Received the Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actress – Motion Picture
- Received the National Society of Film Critics Award for Best Supporting Actress
- Received the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress
- Starred in Back to the Future Part III as Clara Clayton
- Starred in What's Eating Gilbert Grape as Betty Carver
- Received the Arkansas Entertainers Hall of Fame
- Received the Broadcast Film Critics Association Award for Best Cast
- Received the Satellite Award for Best Cast – Motion Picture
- Received the Actor Award for Outstanding Performance by a Cast in a Motion Picture
- Received the Arkansas Women's Hall of Fame
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