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The Proposal

2009
as Grace Paxton

The Last Man on Earth

2015
as Gail Klosterman

Elf

2003
as Emily Hobbs

The Help

2011
as Elain Stein

Happiest Season

2020
as Tipper

Nightmare Alley

2021
as Mrs. Kimball

Step Brothers

2008
as Nancy Huff

I Am Sam

2001
as Dr. Blake

Last Vegas

2013
as Diana

The Discovery

2017
as Interviewer

Justified

2010
as Katherine Hale

Book Club

2018
as Carol

Philadelphia

1993
as Belinda Conine

Four Christmases

2008
as Marilyn

Cross Creek

1983
as Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings

One Magic Christmas

1985
as Ginny Hanks Grainger

Honeydripper

2007
as Amanda Winship

American Outrage

2008
as Narrator

Katie Says Goodbye

2018
as Maybelle

Brahmin Bulls

2013
as Helen West

Gulliver's Travels (1996)

1996
as Mary Gulliver

Clarkworld

2009
as herself

Tender Is the Night

1985
as Nicole Warren Diver

Romantic Comedy

1983
as Phoebe Craddock

Miss Firecracker

1989
as Elaine Rutledge

7 Days in Hell

2015
as Louisa Poole

Outlaw Country

2012
as Anastasia Lee

Wish You Were Dead

2002
as Sally Rider

Nobody's Baby

2001
as Estelle

Dirty Girl

2010
as Peggy

Little Red Riding Hood

1983
as Mary / Little Red Riding Hood

The Book of Love

2017
as Julia Mureaux

Numb

2007
as Dr. Cheryl Blaine

Inland Empire

2006
as Visitor #2

My Summer Story

1994
as Mrs. Parker

Joan of Arcadia

2003
as Helen Girardi

The Whales of August

1987
as Young Sarah

I Do... Until I Don't

2017
as Cybil Burger

O Lucky Malcolm!

2006
as Mary Steenburgen

In the Electric Mist

2009
as Bootsie Robicheaux

Talking to Heaven

2002
as Detective Karen Condrin

Back to the Future

1991
as Clara Clayton

Ragtime

1981
as Mother

Dean

2016
as Carol

Time After Time

1979
as Amy Robbins

Antiquities

2019
as Dr. Margot

The Grass Harp

1995
as Sister Ida

Sunshine State

2002
as Francine Pinkney

About Sarah

1998
as Sarah Elizabeth McCaffrey

Powder

1995
as Jessie Caldwell

The Dead Girl

2006
as Beverley, Leah's Mother

Clifford

1994
as Sarah Davis

Pontiac Moon

1994
as Katherine Bellamy

Elvis and Anabelle

2007
as Geneva Leigh

The Butcher's Wife

1991
as Stella Keefover

Song One

2015
as Karen Ellis

Nobel Son

2007
as Sarah Michaelson

Melvin and Howard

1980
as Lynda Dummar

Nixon

1995
as Hannah Nixon

Goin' South

1978
as Julia Tate / Moon

Dead of Winter

1987
as Julie Rose / Katie McGovern / Evelyn

Flannery

2019
as Flannery

Hope Springs

2003
as Joanie Fisher

Parenthood

1989
as Karen Buckman

End of the Line

1987
as Rose Pickett

The Open Road

2009
as Katherine

Life as a House

2001
as Colleen Beck

The Brave One

2007
as Carol

Producer

Movie The Evening Journey 2008
Movie Bye Bye Benjamin 2006
Movie Best Summer Ever 2020

Guest Star

Episode On Becoming a God in Central Florida
American Merchandise
2019
Episode Funny or Die: Totally Real Movies Coming Soon
Weird: The Al Yankovic Story
2010
Episode Becker
DNR
2004
Episode On Becoming a God in Central Florida
Flint Glass
2019
Episode Wilfred (US)
Service
2012
Episode Watch What Happens Live with Andy Cohen
Jane Fonda, Candice Bergen & Mary Steenburgen
2023
Episode Law & Order: Special Victims Unit
Denial
2002
Episode Curb Your Enthusiasm
Ted and Mary
2000
Episode 30 Rock
Hey, Baby, What's Wrong? (1)
2012
Episode Curb Your Enthusiasm
Meet the Blacks
2007
Episode Shelley Duvall's Bedtime Stories
The Little Rabbit Who Wanted Red Wings / Katy No-Pocket
1993
Episode 30 Rock
Hey, Baby, What's Wrong? (2)
2012
Episode The Talk
Mary Steenburgen; Bridget Moynahan; Wendy Howard Goldberg
2015
Episode 30 Rock
Kidnapped by Danger
2012
Episode Curb Your Enthusiasm
The Anonymous Donor
2007
Episode 30 Rock
Queen of Jordan II: Mystery of the Phantom Pooper
2012
Episode Wilfred (US)
Confrontation
2013
Episode Bored to Death
I Keep Taking Baths Like Lady Macbeth
2011
Episode Wilfred (US)
Compassion
2011
Episode The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson
Mary Steenburgen/Big & Rich
2006
Episode Criminal Minds
The Fight
2010
Episode Watch What Happens Live with Andy Cohen
Mary Steenburgen; Candice Bergen; Don Johnson
2018
Episode Orange Is the New Black
A Tittin' and a Hairin'
2015
Episode Bored to Death
Two Large Pearls and a Bar of Gold
2011
Episode Wilfred (US)
Regrets
2013
Episode Bored to Death
Forget the Herring
2011
Episode 30 Rock
Hey, Baby, What's Wrong?
2012
Episode Orange Is the New Black
Fear, and Other Smells
2015
Episode 30 Rock
What Will Happen to the Gang Next Year?
2012
Episode Ellen
Ellen: A Hollywood Tribute (2)
1998
Episode Bored to Death
Nothing I Can't Handle by Running Away
2011
Episode Orange Is the New Black
Fake It Till You Fake It Some More
2015
Episode The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson
Mary Steenburgen, Bettye LaVette, Todd Sawyer
2009
Episode Reunited Apart
It's Time to go Back to the Future!
2020
Episode The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson
Mary Steenburgen, Becca Tobin, William Shatner
2013
Episode Orange Is the New Black
Bed Bugs and Beyond
2015
Episode Frasier
Retirement Is Murder
1995