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Mary Steenburgen (born February 8, 1953) is an Academy Award-winning American actress. Steenburgen was born in Newport, Arkansas; her last name is of Dutch origin.[1]Steenburgen moved to New York City in 1972 to study acting. Steenburgen was married to Malcolm McDowell from 1980 to 1990, and has been married to actor Ted Danson since 1995. She won an Oscar for Best Supporting Actress for her role in the 1980 film Melvin and Howard. She played Clara Clayton in Back to the Future Part III (1990), a role which her children, fans of the Back to the Future movies, convinced her to play. She reprised the role by
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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 1972, where she worked with an improvisational troupe. She was spotted by Jack Nicholson, who cast her as his feisty "in name only" frontier wife in 1978's Goin' South. Two years later, she won a Best Supporting Actress Oscar for her performance as Melvin Dummar's inamorata in Melvin and Howard (1980). Able to convey a wide age and character range, Steenburgen was effectively cast as a free-spirited Frisco girl in Time After Time (1979), the corseted matriarch of a turn-of-the-century household in Ragtime (1981), prim authoress Marjorie Rawlins in Cross Creek (1983), a long-suffering suburban housewife in Parenthood (1989), and a Marcia Clark-like attorney in Philadelphia (1993).
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Mary Steenburgen won an Academy Award for her role in Melvin and Howard. She will soon be seen in Nobel Son, starring opposite Alan Rickman and Bill Pullman, and Numb, starring Matthew Perry. Both films will have their premiere at the 2007 Tribeca Film Festival. Steenburgen starred for two seasons on the Emmy nominated CBS series, Joan of Arcadia. In February 2006 she was seen in the David Mamet directed play Boston Marriage at The Geffen Playhouse in Los Angeles.
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On the eve of the Jan. 3 Iowa caucus, Clinton friends, actors Ted Danson and Mary Steenburgen joined a party of Clinton supporters in Des Moines. On the left is Clinton volunteer Lori Kreloff, a Chicago native whose father, Mike Kreloff, the Northfield Township Democratic Committeeman is an Obama backer. Clinton supporter David Jones is a consultant in Washington. (Photo by Lynn Sweet)
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Known for her Academy Award-winning role in "Melvin and Howard" and her strong performances in "What's Eating Gilbert Grape" and "Philadelphia," Mary Steenburgen is ... known as an advocate for social change. In 1995, Mary received the Desert AIDS Project Award and in 1996, she and her husband, Ted Danson, were recipients of the prestigious Liberty Hall Foundation, Upton Sinclair Award. Currently, Mary serves on the President's Commission for the Selection of White House Fellows.
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Co-starring Charles Grodin and Mary Steenburgen, Clifford is crammed with enough "laugh-out-loud moments" (Los Angeles Times) and "brilliantly subtle, sophisticated humor" (Entertainment Today) to spoil you for good! Smart, hyperactive and dangerous ten-year-old Clifford (Short) has a lifelong dream: to visit the Dinosaur World theme park. Happily, his uncle Martin (Grodin) has agreed to take him. But when Martin suddenly renegeson his promise, Clifford hatches a devious plan to get evenand teach his uncle that all work andno play makes Clifford a very bad boy!
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