Mary Steenburgen
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Mary Steenburgen (born February 8, 1953) is an American actress. Steenburgen was born in Newport, Arkansas and moved to New York City in 1972 to study acting.
Steenburgen was married to Malcolm McDowell for ten years, but is currently married to actor Ted Danson. She won a Best Supporting Actress Oscar 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 also had a role in the 1979 film Time After Time. In both films she played the love interest of a time traveller. She also starred in the sitcom Ink and television series of Gulliver's Travels with her husband Danson.
Selected filmography
- Joan of Arcadia (2003) TV Series
- Picnic (2000)
- Gulliver's Travels (1996)
- Philadelphia (1993)
- Back to the Future Part III (1989)
- Miss Firecracker (1989)
- Ragtime (1981)
- Time After Time (1979)
- Going South (1978)