Mary Nell Steenburgen (February 8, 1953) is an actress, comedian, singer, and composer from the United States. For Lynda Dummar in Jonathan Demme’s 1980 film Melvin and Howard, she received the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress and the Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actress – Motion Picture.
Steenburgen, who studied at the Neighborhood Playhouse in New York in the 1970s, was also nominated for a Golden Globe for the 1981 picture Ragtime, a BAFTA TV Award for the 1985 miniseries Tender Is the Night, and an Emmy Award for the 1988 TV film The Attic: The Hiding of Anne Frank. Time After Time (1979), Cross Creek (1983), Parenthood (1989), Back to the Future Part III (1990), Philadelphia (1993), What’s Eating Gilbert Grape (1993), Elf (2003), The Brave One (2007), Step Brothers (2008), The Proposal (2009), The Help (2011), A Walk in the Woods (2015), Book Club (2018), and Happiest Season (2018) are just a few of her other film appearances (2020).
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