MARY STEENBURGEN
Name: Mary Steenburgen
Born: 8 February 1953 Newport, Arkansas, United States
Mary Steenburgen (born February 8, 1953) is an Academy
Award-winning American actress.
Steenburgen was born in Newport, Arkansas, daughter of Nell, a school-board
secretary, and Maurice Steenburgen, a freight-train conductor. Steenburgen
married Malcolm McDowell in 1980 and they had two children together: Lily Amanda,
born January 21, 1981 and Charles Malcolm born July 10, 1983, before divorcing
in 1990, and has been married to actor Ted Danson since 1995. In 2006,
Steenburgen received an honorary Doctor of Humane Letters degree from Lyon
College in Batesville, Arkansas.
She is a close personal friend of former first lady, New York Senator, and
presidential candidate Hillary Clinton. She currently resides in Oxford,
Mississippi.
Steenburgen moved to New York City in 1972, working at Doubleday's while
studying acting at New York's Neighborhood Playhouse School of the Theatre.
Her break came when she discovered by Jack Nicholson in the reception room of
Paramount's New York office, and soon after cast her as the lead in his second
directorial effort, the 1978 Western Goin' South. She won the Academy Award
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 providing the character's voice in the Back to the Future:
The Animated Series. She also had a role in the 1979 film Time After Time in
which she played the love interest to H.G. Wells played by her husband-to-be
Malcolm McDowell. In both films, she played the love interest of a time
traveller. She also starred in the sitcom Ink and the television miniseries of
Gulliver's Travels with her husband Ted Danson. She has also appeared as herself
alongside Ted Danson in the HBO comedy Curb Your Enthusiasm.
Name: Mary Steenburgen
Born: 8 February 1953 Newport, Arkansas, United States
Mary Steenburgen (born February 8, 1953) is an Academy
Award-winning American actress.
Steenburgen was born in Newport, Arkansas, daughter of Nell, a school-board
secretary, and Maurice Steenburgen, a freight-train conductor. Steenburgen
married Malcolm McDowell in 1980 and they had two children together: Lily Amanda,
born January 21, 1981 and Charles Malcolm born July 10, 1983, before divorcing
in 1990, and has been married to actor Ted Danson since 1995. In 2006,
Steenburgen received an honorary Doctor of Humane Letters degree from Lyon
College in Batesville, Arkansas.
She is a close personal friend of former first lady, New York Senator, and
presidential candidate Hillary Clinton. She currently resides in Oxford,
Mississippi.
Steenburgen moved to New York City in 1972, working at Doubleday's while
studying acting at New York's Neighborhood Playhouse School of the Theatre.
Her break came when she discovered by Jack Nicholson in the reception room of
Paramount's New York office, and soon after cast her as the lead in his second
directorial effort, the 1978 Western Goin' South. She won the Academy Award
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 providing the character's voice in the Back to the Future:
The Animated Series. She also had a role in the 1979 film Time After Time in
which she played the love interest to H.G. Wells played by her husband-to-be
Malcolm McDowell. In both films, she played the love interest of a time
traveller. She also starred in the sitcom Ink and the television miniseries of
Gulliver's Travels with her husband Ted Danson. She has also appeared as herself
alongside Ted Danson in the HBO comedy Curb Your Enthusiasm.