Mary Steenburgen Uncensored
Mary Steenburgen’s voice might be the first thing you notice about her. Her soft, southern drawl has been described by film critic Charles Taylor as coming to “your ears like honey arriving on a moonbeam”. There is no other voice like it in Hollywood.
She was born on February 8, 1953, in Newport, Arkansas to Maurice Steenburgen, a freight train conductor, and Nellie Mae Wall Steenburgen, a school secretary. The name Steenburgen is of Dutch origin. It’s pronounced with a soft “g” as in the word urge.
She was discovered by Jack Nicholson in the 70s, and was chosen to star with him in Goin’ South’ in 1978, which was her first film. She won an Academy Award for best supporting actress in only her third movie, Melvin and Howard, in 1980.
She met her first husband, Malcolm McDowell when they worked together in the time-travel romantic comedy Time after Time in 1979. She married McDowell on September 29, 1980; they had two children: actress Lilly McDowell and producer/director Charlie McDowell. They both starred in Cross Creek in 1983. In it she played Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings, author of The Yearling. Her husband appeared in the film as Rawlings’s editor, Max Perkins.
Mary spent a number of years living in London. In 1987, she made her London stage debut, co-starring with McDowell in Philip Barrie’s Holiday at the Old Vic Theatre. She divorced McDowell in 1989. McDowell is best remembered for his role as Alex DeLarge in A Clockwork Orange (1971). He was also in the superb If (1968) and Robert Altman’s The Player’ (1992).
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