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Mary Steenburgen

Mary Steenburgen

Total Box Office:
 $853.3M
Highest Rated:
94% Melvin and Howard (1980)
Lowest Rated:
0% Nobody's Baby (2001)
Birthday:
Feb 8
Birthplace:
Newport, Arkansas, USA
Bio:
Curly haired, sandy-voiced actress Mary Steenburgen is a natural when it comes to playing Southerners, probably because she hails from the region herself. Born in Arkansas on February 8, 1953, Steenburgen was the daughter of a railroad employee. Pursuing drama in college, she headed to New York in…

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Highest Rated Movies

Filmography

Movies | TV series

MOVIES   

Rating Title Credit Box Office Year
Last Vegas
  • Actor
-- 2013
27% Dirty Girl
  • Peggy
$53.6k 2011
76% The Help
  • Elaine Stein
$169.7M 2011
12% Did You Hear About the Morgans?
  • Emma Wheeler
$29.6M 2009
ClarkWORLD
  • Actor
-- 2009
29% The Open Road
  • Katherine
-- 2009
43% The Proposal
  • Grace Paxton
$163.9M 2009
60% In the Electric Mist
  • Bootsie
-- 2009
26% Nobel Son
  • Sarah Michaelson
$0.3M 2008
55% Step Brothers
  • Nancy Huff
$100.5M 2008
25% Four Christmases
  • Marilyn
$120.1M 2008
Step Brothers: Unrated
  • Actor
-- 2008
American Outrage
  • Narrator
-- 2007
43% The Brave One
  • Carol
$36.8M 2007
Elvis and Anabelle
  • Geneva
-- 2007
Numb
  • Dr. Blaine
-- 2007
67% Honeydripper
  • Actor
-- 2007
Talking to Heaven
  • Actor
-- 2006
72% Inland Empire
  • Actor
-- 2006
22% Marilyn Hotchkiss' Ballroom Dancing & Charm School
  • Marianne Hotchkiss
$0.2M 2006
75% The Dead Girl
  • Beverly
-- 2006
84% Elf
  • Emily
$173.4M 2003
58% Casa de los Babys
  • Gayle
$0.3M 2003
25% Hope Springs
  • Joanie Fisher
-- 2003
80% Sunshine State
  • Francine Pickney
$2.8M 2002
Talking to Heaven (Living with the Dead)
  • Actor
-- 2002
Wish You Were Dead
  • Sally
-- 2002
34% I Am Sam
  • Actor
$40.3M 2001
47% Life as a House
  • Coleen
$15.4M 2001
15% The Trumpet of the Swan
  • Mother
-- 2001
0% Nobody's Baby
  • Estelle
-- 2001
Noah's Ark
  • Naamah
-- 1999
About Sarah
  • Actor
-- 1998
Gulliver's Travels
  • Actor
-- 1996
47% Powder
  • Jessie Caldwell
-- 1995
50% The Grass Harp
  • Sister Ida
-- 1995
85% My Family
  • Gloria
-- 1995
75% Nixon
  • Hannah Nixon
-- 1995
9% Clifford
  • Sarah Davis
-- 1994
It Runs in the Family (My Summer Story)
  • Mom
-- 1994
Pontiac Moon
  • Katherine Bellamy
-- 1994
42% Wyatt Earp
  • Actor
-- 1994
About Sarah
  • Actor
-- 1993
89% What's Eating Gilbert Grape
  • Betty Carver
-- 1993
77% Philadelphia
  • Belinda Conine
-- 1993
Shelley Duvall's Bedtime Stories
  • Actor
-- 1992
21% The Butcher's Wife
  • Stella
-- 1991
Secrets of the Back to the Future Trilogy
  • Actor
-- 1991
73% Back to the Future Part III
  • Clara Clayton
-- 1990
92% Parenthood
  • Karen Buckman
-- 1989
85% The Long Walk Home
  • Narrator
-- 1989
67% Miss Firecracker
  • Elain Rutledge
-- 1989
60% End of the Line
  • Rose Pickett
-- 1988
The Attic: The Hiding of Anne Frank
  • Miep Gies
-- 1988
82% Dead of Winter
  • Katie McGovern / Julie / Evelyn
-- 1987
63% The Whales of August
  • Young Sarah
-- 1987
56% One Magic Christmas
  • Ginny Grainger
-- 1985
64% Cross Creek
  • Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings
-- 1983
Romantic Comedy
  • Phoebe
-- 1983
76% A Midsummer Night's Sex Comedy
  • Adrian
-- 1982
90% Ragtime
  • Mother
-- 1981
94% Melvin and Howard
  • Lynda Dummar
-- 1980
86% Time After Time
  • Amy Robbins
-- 1979
Rabbit Test
  • Actor
-- 1978
77% Goin' South
  • Julia Tate
-- 1978

Movies | TV series

TV SERIES   

Rating Title Credit Year
Curb Your Enthusiasm
  • Herself
2000-2011
93% 30 Rock
  • Diana Jessup
2006-2013
Law & Order: Special Victims Unit
  • Grace Rinato
1999-2013
Criminal Minds
  • Beth Griffith
2005-2014
80% Bored to Death
  • Josephine
  • Actor
2009-2011
88% Wilfred
  • Catherine
2011-2013

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Quotes from Mary Steenburgen's Characters

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    1. Elaine Stein: Who was it?
    2. Skeeter Phelan: My mother?
    From The Help. Submitted by Alyssa B (3 months ago)
    1. Marianne Hotchkiss: Dance is a very powerful drug Mr. Keane. If embraced judiciously, it can exorcise demons, access deep seated emotions and color your life in joyous shades of brilliant magenta that you never knew existed. But, one must shoulder its challenges with intrepid countenance if one is ever to reap its rewards.
    From Marilyn Hotchkiss' Ballroom Dancing & Charm School. Submitted by Julie R (14 months ago)

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