MARITAL STATUS
Professions Actress , Executive producer
Birth name Mary Nell Steenburgen
American nationality
Birth February 8, 1953 (Newport, Arkansas – United States)
BIOGRAPHY
A graduate of New York’s Neighborhood Theater, Mary Steenburgen founded a small theater troupe, the Cracked Tokens , which moved to the Manhattan Theater Club and enjoyed some success.
She was immediately noticed by Jack Nicholson who gave her her first film role in 1978, that of Julia Tate in On the Road to the South . This western also earned her a nomination for the Golden Globe Awards in 1978. She then starred opposite her future husband, Malcolm McDowell , in It Was Tomorrow , a fantastic film by Nicholas Meyer , and achieved fame in 1980, the year during which she won the Academy Award for Best Actress for her portrayal of Lynda Dummar in Melvin and Howard , a Jonathan Demme film about the life of the eccentric Howard Hughes.
In the 1980s, Mary Steenburgen often played the role of a self-effacing wife or mother ( Ragtime (1981) by Milos Forman , Erotic Comedy of a Midsummer Night (1982) by Woody Allen , Spitting Image of a Model Family (1990) by Ron Howard ) and is illustrated in numerous family comedies ( One Magic Christmas (1985) by Phillip Borsos , Miss Firecracker (1989) by Thomas Schlamme , Back to the Future III (1990) by Robert Zemeckis ). But she also established herself in films with a more dramatic tone: Marjorie , a drama by Martin Ritt where she played the writer Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings, and Cold as Death (1987) by Arthur Penn , where she played three female characters. involved in a dark murder story.
In the 90s, she appeared in quick succession in Gilbert Grape (1993) by Lasse Hallström , Philadelphia (1993) by Jonathan Demme, Powder (1995) by Victor Salva and even Nixon (id.) by Oliver Stone . After having worked mainly for television in the second half of the decade, she returned to the big screen in 2001 thanks to A House on the Ocean , a family drama by Irwin Winkler with Kevin Kline in the lead role.
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