Mary Steenburgen is an American actress. She won Academy and Golden Globe Awards for Best Supporting Actress for playing the role of Lynda Dummar in Melvin and Howard. Other film credits include Last Vegas, The Help, Dirty Girl, Did You Hear About the Morgans?, The Proposal, Four Christmases, Step Brothers, Elf, The Brave One, Pontiac Moon, Philadelphia, What’s Eating Gilbert Grape, The Butcher’s Wife, Back to the Future III, Parenthood, and Time After Time.

Television credits include Orange Is the New Black, The Last Man on Earth, Justified, 30 Rock, Wilfred, Joan of Arcadia, Ink, Back to the Future, Curb Your Enthusiasm, About Sarah, Gulliver’s Travels, Tender is the Night, and The Attic: The Hiding of Anne Frank.

Theatre credits include Mary's Broadway debut as Candida in Candida (Criterion Center Stage); Off-Broadway in Exonerated (Bleecker Street Theatre); and regionally, as Anna in Boston Marriage (Geffen Playhouse).