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Mary Steenburgen
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Actor Born: February 8, 1953 in Newport, AR Biography: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... Full Biography
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