Mary Steenburgen Biography

Mary Steenburgen was spotted by Jack Nicholson who cast her as his feisty in name only frontier wife in 1978's Goin' South. Two years later she won a Best Supporting Actress Oscar for her performance as Melvin Dummar's inamorata in Melvin and Howard (1980). Gentle intelligent and possessing a scathing wit Steenburgen has turned in several memorable roles in big and small films throughout her career including Miss Firecracker (1989) and Life as a House (2001). Able to convey a wide age and character range Steenburgen was effectively cast as a free-spirited Frisco girl in Time After Time (1979) the corseted matriarch of a turn-of-the-century household in Ragtime (1981) prim authoress Marjorie Rawlins in Cross Creek (1983) a long-suffering suburban housewife in Parenthood (1989) and a Marcia Clark-like attorney in Philadelphia (1993). She also portrayed the Jules Verne-loving Western schoolmarm Clara in Back to the Future 3 (1990) a role she perpetuated (via voice-over) on the Back to the Future TV cartoon series. In 1988 she was executive producer of End of the Line in which she also appeared. Formerly married for several years to actor Malcolm McDowell Steenburgen married former Cheers star Ted Danson in 1995. The two have collaborated on a number of projects including 1994's Pontiac Moon and the made-for-TV Gulliver's Travels in 1996.

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