Mary Steenburgen

Mary Steenburgen

Mary Nell Steenburgen is an American actress, singer, and songwriter. She won the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for the 1980 film Melvin and Howard. She has a recurring role as herself in Curb Your Enthusiasm and co-starred as Mary Gulliver in Book’s Travels.

About Mary Steenburgen in brief

Summary Mary SteenburgenMary Nell Steenburgen is an American actress, singer, and songwriter. She won the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for the 1980 film Melvin and Howard. Her other film appearances include Time After Time, Cross Creek, Parenthood, Back to the Future Part III, Philadelphia, What’s Eating Gilbert Grape, Elf, The Brave One, Step Brothers, The Proposal, The Help, Book Club, and Happiest Season. She has a recurring role as herself in Curb Your Enthusiasm and co-starred as Mary Gulliver in Book’s Travels. Steenburgon had a recurring part on NBC’s 30 Rock from 2012 to 2013. She had a small part in the 2015 film A Walk in the Woods as Jeannie. In 2018, she starred in the romantic comedy film Club.

She also appeared as Kate Montgomery in Ink in the TV series Ink. She appeared as Helen Girardi, the mother of Amber Tamblyn’s title character, in the AMC series Curb your Enthusiastic from 2011 to 2013, and as Catherine Newman, the mentally ill mother of Wilfred Newman’s character in the 2013 sitcom Arcadia. She is married to actor John Cusack and has two children. She currently lives in New York City with her husband and two children, who she met at the Neighborhood Playhouse in the 1970s. She was married to Jack Nicholson for more than 20 years. She and her husband have three children, one of whom is a singer-songwriter.