Mary Steenburgen Wiki, Biography, Age, Net Worth, Contact & Informations

Mary Steenburgen
Wiki, Biography, Age, Net Worth, Contact & Informations

Here you can learn about Mary Steenburgen’s career and private life facts, read the latest news, find all the awards she has won and view photos and videos.

PERSONAL DATA OF MARY STEENBURGEN

Age: 68 years old
Height: 173 cm
Born in: Newport, Arkansas, USA
Born on: 08/02/1953

Spouse: Ted Danson (s. 1995), Malcolm McDowell (s. 1980–1990)

Sons: Charlie McDowell, Lilly McDowell

BIOGRAPHY OF MARY STEENBURGEN

Mary Steenburgen was born there‘February 8, 1953 in Newport, Arkansas, where in 1971 he began studying acting at Hendrix College, so impressing his teacher that he proposed that she go to Dallas to audition at the Neighborhood Playhouse in New York. After the selection, Steenburgen moved to Manhattan in 1972 and studied at the Will Esper Studio, while maintaining a job as a waitress. The dream of an acting career is fulfilled by Jack Nicholson, who, after noticing her in the waiting room of the Paramount, decides to entrust her with the leading role in his film Towards the South (1978), a western in which Mary has the opportunity to act not only alongside Nicholson, but also Christopher Lloyd, John Belushi is Danny De Vito. A grandiose debut for Steenburgen, who from now on will be one of the most requested actresses.

It is the love interest of Malcolm McDowell neither The man who came from the impossible (1979), a film halfway between sci-fi and the thriller that romance the story of HGWells, a nineteenth-century author known for having written “The Time Machine”. Even the critics recognize Steenburgen’s acting skills and it is not long in rewarding her, in fact the Eighties opened with the victory of the Oscar and the Golden Globe for Best Supporting Actress in I once met a billionaire (1980) and with a nomination, again in the same category as the Golden Globe, for the drama Ragtime (1981). They follow A sexy comedy in a midsummer night (1982) by Woody Allen and some leading roles in it The silent forest (1983), Jokes of the heart (1983), A magical Christmas (1985) and Murder in the mirror (1987).

The eighties end with a dramatic comedy directed by Ron Howard, Relatives, friends and lots of troubles (1989), while the following decade opens with Back to the Future – Part III (1990), in which she plays Clara, the woman Doc falls in love with during her visit to the Far West. Later he joins a young man Johnny Depp in Happy birthday Mr. Grape (1993), Tom Hanks is Denzel Washington in Philadelphia (1993). It is in these years that her first most significant experiences on TV as the wife before Gulliver in the miniseries date back. Gulliver’s voyage (1996) and then by Noé ne Noah’s Ark (1999).

The first years of the 2000s are full of commitments for Steenburgen, she is on the big screen with films of wide interest, such as The last dream (2001), My name is Sam (2001) ed Elf (2003); on TV she plays the mother of a very young girl Amber Tamblyn in the teen drama Joan of Arcadia (2003), which earned her a Satellite Award for Best Supporting Actress. In 2006 he appears briefly, like his other colleagues, in the thriller Inland Empire of David Lynch.

In the 2000s, with a few exceptions such as the thriller Darkness in the soul (2007), it is the comedy genre that prevails: the actress stars in Step brothers at 40 (2008), All together inevitably (2008), Blackmail of love (2009) and What happened to the Morgans? (2009). In this period, however, Steenburgen mainly covers secondary roles, but her smile and her delicate actoriality still remain etched in the mind of the viewer. In 2013 he is at the cinema with Last Vegas, in which she is a charming singer who catches the attention of the characters of Michael Douglas is Robert De Niro. Afterwards, tile Johnny Flynn is Anne Hathaway in the romantic Song One (2014) and Robert Redford is Nick Nolte in the adventure movie Walking in the woods (2015).

Meanwhile, the roles on TV also increase with the participation in the third season of Bored to Death (2011), to the third of Orange Is The New Black (2015) and as a main character in The Last Man of Earth (2015). In 2018 the actress returns as a protagonist together with Diane Keaton, Jane Fonda is Candice Bergen in Book Club – Anything can happen, a comedy in which the four Hollywood icons play four friends who, after reading “Fifty Shades of Gray”, decide to “change” their lives in somewhat alternative ways.