Mary Steenburgen
- Born: 8 Feb, 1953
This soft-spoken, offbeat, and appealing stage-trained actress won raves and a Best Supporting Actress Oscar as Melvin's flustered but caring wife in Jonathan Demme's "Melvin and Howard" (1980). Mary Steenburgen could have parlayed this triumph into a high profile Hollywood career but opted instead for modest projects, gentle comedies, and occasional genre films. Pretty, vulnerable, and intelligent, she convinces as the thinking man's heartthrob in such charming fantasies as "Time After Time" (1979), as the modern significant other of a time-traveling H.G. Wells (played by Malcolm McDowall, her husband from 1980-89), and in "Back to the Future III" (1990), with the batty Dr. Emote Brown (Christopher Lloyd).
FAMILY & COMPANIONS
- father Maurice Steenburgen: died of lung cancer age 74 in 1989
- mother Nell Steenburgen: born in 1923; retired school-board secretary
- sister Nancy Kelley:
- daughter Lilly McDowell: born January 22, 1981
- son Charlie McDowell: born c. 1983
- husband Malcolm McDowell: married 1980; divorced 1989
- husband Ted Danson: met during filming of "Pontiac Moon"; married on October 7, 1995
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