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.
98 movies · 49 shows
The Dink
2026·6.3
Last Train to Fortune
2025·6.1
Easy's Waltz
2025·2.0
Dick Van Dyke: 98 Years of Magic
2023·7.0
Book Club: The Next Chapter
2023·6.3
Celebrating Betty White: America's Golden Girl
2022·7.0
Nightmare Alley
2021·6.9
Zoey's Extraordinary Christmas
2021·6.3
Happiest Season
2020·7.1
30 Rock: A One-Time Special
2020·6.3
Flannery
2019·0.0
Antiquities
2019·4.3
Book Club
2018·6.2
Katie Says Goodbye
2018·6.6
I Do... Until I Don't
2017·4.7
The Discovery
2017·6.3
The Book of Love
2017·6.5
Dean
2016·5.8
Jim Henson's Turkey Hollow
2015·5.6
A Walk in the Woods
2015·6.1
7 Days in Hell
2015·6.5
The One I Love
2014·6.9
Song One
2014·5.7
Last Vegas
2013·6.4
Brahmin Bulls
2013·5.0
Outlaw Country
2012·6.0
The Help
2011·8.2
Fight for Your Right Revisited
2011·6.6
Tales from the Future
2010·6.1
Dirty Girl
2010·6.0
Weird: The Al Yankovic Story
2010·6.6
Did You Hear About the Morgans?
2009·5.4
Clarkworld
2009·10.0
The Proposal
2009·7.2
In the Electric Mist
2009·6.1
The Open Road
2009·5.2
Four Christmases
2008·5.8
Step Brothers
2008·6.6
The Brave One
2007·6.6
Honeydripper
2007·5.9
Numb
2007·5.9
Nobel Son
2007·6.0
Elvis & Anabelle
2007·6.7
Inland Empire
2006·7.0
The Dead Girl
2006·6.0
O Lucky Malcolm!
2006·6.1
Marilyn Hotchkiss' Ballroom Dancing & Charm School
2006·5.9
Remembering Ragtime
2004·0.0
Elf: That's a Wrap
2004·0.0
It Must Be Love
2004·4.9
Elf
2003·6.7
Casa de los Babys
2003·5.6
Hope Springs
2003·5.3
Mrs. Pilgrim Goes to Hollywood
2003·0.0
Sunshine State
2002·6.4
Wish You Were Dead
2002·5.0
Living with the Dead
2002·5.5
Character Building: Inside 'Life As a House'
2002·0.0
I Am Sam
2001·7.6
Life as a House
2001·7.1
The Trumpet of the Swan
2001·5.6
Nobody's Baby
2001·5.2
The Tulsa Lynching of 1921: A Hidden Story
2000·9.0
Picnic
2000·5.3
Noah's Ark
1999·0.0
About Sarah
1998·6.8
The Grass Harp
1996·5.9
Nixon
1995·6.8
Powder
1995·7.0
My Family
1995·7.4
Pontiac Moon
1994·5.5
It Runs in the Family
1994·5.4
Clifford
1994·5.1
Philadelphia
1993·7.7
What's Eating Gilbert Grape
1993·7.7
Earth and the American Dream
1992·6.7
Back to the Future: Dickens of a Christmas
1991·0.0
The Butcher's Wife
1991·5.7
The Long Walk Home
1990·7.6
Sanford Meisner: The American Theatre's Best Kept Secret
1990·0.0
The Secrets of the 'Back to the Future' Trilogy
1990·4.9
Back to the Future Part III
1990·7.5
Parenthood
1989·6.7
Broadway's Dreamers: The Legacy of the Group Theatre
1989·0.0
Miss Firecracker
1989·5.8
The Attic: The Hiding of Anne Frank
1988·7.1
The Whales of August
1987·7.0
End of the Line
1987·5.3
Dead of Winter
1987·6.0
One Magic Christmas
1985·5.9
Little Red Riding Hood
1983·5.8
Romantic Comedy
1983·5.1
Cross Creek
1983·6.5
A Midsummer Night's Sex Comedy
1982·6.5
Ragtime
1981·7.0
Melvin and Howard
1980·6.5
Time After Time
1979·6.8
Goin' South
1978·5.8