Actress Mary Steenburgen

Mary Steenburgen is an actress whose career has spanned four decades.

 

Her first big movie role was her second movie role overall - as Amy Robbins in 1979's Time After Time.  Amy, a contemporary 1970s American woman, teams up with British novelist H.G. Wells, who has come from nineteenth-century London in pursuit of Jack the Ripper in modern San Francisco.  Ms. Steenburgen later married her co-star Malcolm McDowell (who played Wells), though now she's married to Ted Danson.

The 1980s saw Ms. Steenburgen in Woody Allen's 1982 movie A Midsummer Night's Sex Comedy, a twist on Shakespeare, and as wife and mother Karen Buckman in the 1989 movie Parenthood.  She reprised her knack for playing women who get involved with time travelers as Clara Clayton in the final Back To the Future movie.

Her other well-known movie roles include corporate lawyer Belinda Conine in 1993's Philadelphia, Richard Nixon's mother Hannah in 1995's Nixon, and, more recently, a socialite dreading over her late son's death on the battlefield in World War I in the 2021 remake of Nightmare Alley.