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Mare Winningham
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Actor Born: 1959 in Phoenix, AZ Biography:"Mare Winningham" is a critically acclaimed performer on stage, television, and occasionally feature films. She began her career performing a song on TV's notorious Gong Show. While playing Maria in a high school production of The Sound of Music, opposite classmate "Kevin Spacey", Winningham was spotted by Hollywood agent "Meyer Mishkin" who landed her a role in the short-lived TV Western series "The Young Pioneers" in 1978. This led to her first TV movie, "Special Olympics". For her role as an independent-minded farmer's daughter in 1980's "Amber Waves", she won an Emmy. That year, Winningham made her feature-film debut starring opposite "Paul Simon" in "Robert M. Young"'s One-Trick Pony. She fared better in her next film, "Threshold" (1981), where she played the recipient of an artificial heart. Winningham then went on to play a number of supporting roles and the occasional lead in a series of... Full Biography
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