Mare Winningham
Mare Winningham was born in Phoenix, Arizona, United States on May 16th, 1959 and is the Movie Actress. At the age of 65, Mare Winningham biography, profession, age, height, weight, eye color, hair color, build, measurements, education, career, dating/affair, family, news updates, movies, TV shows, and networth are available.
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Mary Megan Winningham (born May 16, 1959) is an American actress and singer-songwriter.
An eight-time Emmy Award nominee, she won Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Miniseries or Movie for Amber Waves in 1980 and George Wallace in 1998.
She was also nominated for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for the 1995 film Georgia. Winningham's other film and TV roles include St. Elmo's Fire (1985), Miracle Mile (1988), Turner & Hooch (1989), The War (1994), Dandelion (2004), Swing Vote (2008), Brothers (2009), Mildred Pierce (2011), Hatfields & McCoys (2012) and appeared in American Horror Story for four seasons; Coven (2013), Freak Show (2014), Hotel (2015-16) and Cult (2017).
She made her New York stage debut in the 2007 Off-Broadway musical 10 Million Miles, for which she received a Drama Desk Award nomination.
and her Broadway debut in the 2013 revival of Picnic.
In 2014, she was nominated for the Tony Award for Best Featured Actress in a Play for the original Broadway production of Casa Valentina.
She was cast as Cherry Lockhart for Seasons 1-2 and 4 as Cole's mother in the tv series The Affair.
Early life
Winningham was born in Phoenix, Arizona, and raised in Northridge, California. She is the daughter of Marilyn Jean (née Maloney) and Sam Neal Winningham. She has three brothers and one sister. Her father was football coach, athletic director and later the chairman of the Department of Physical Education at California State University, Northridge (CSUN), and her mother was an English teacher and college counselor at Monroe High School and Grant High School. She credits her first interest in acting to seeing an interview with Kym Karath (who played Gretl in The Sound of Music) on Art Linkletter's television show House Party when she was five or six years old.
Winningham attended Andasol Avenue Elementary School, where her favorite activities included drama and playing the guitar and drums. She took the extended drama option at Patrick Henry Junior High School and continued to study over her summer vacations at CSUN's Teenage Drama Workshop. It was at this time that she adopted the nickname "Mare". Her mother arranged for her to go to Chatsworth High School. In grade 12, Winningham starred in a production of The Sound of Music, playing the part of Maria, opposite classmate Kevin Spacey as Captain Von Trapp. Her high school boyfriend was Val Kilmer. She graduated co-valedictorian (with Spacey) of her high school class in 1977.
Personal life
Winningham has been married four times and divorced three. In the early 1980s, she was briefly married to actor A Martinez. They both starred in the miniseries The Young Pioneers. After their divorce, she married television technical advisor William Mapel, with whom she had five children. The marriage ended in 1994. Winningham later married and divorced artist Jason Trucco. At the end of 2021, she and long-time friend and fellow actor Anthony Edwards eloped. The two have known each other for 35 years.
Winningham was raised a Roman Catholic. She converted to Judaism in her early 40s, as a personal choice; she is a practicing Jew.
Career
Winningham began her career as a singer-songwriter. On The Gong Show, she got her break in 1976 and 1977. Despite Winningham's lack of regular work as a result of her appearance, she was signed to an acting one by Hollywood agent Meyer Mishkin and she was awarded her Screen Actor's Guild badge for doing three lines in an episode of James at 15. She was granted a role on Young Pioneers and Young Pioneers Christmas, pilots for the short-lived 1978 drama The Young Pioneers. Despite the fact that the series ended with only three episodes being broadcast, a number of television shows followed, including parts on Police Woman in 1978 and Starsky and Hutch in 1979. Jenny Flowers, a teen outcast, appeared in The Death of Ocean View Park, a made-for-TV film from the same year.
Winningham appeared on Off the Minnesota Strip in 1980 as a young prostitute. She earned the Emmy Award for Best Supporting Actress in a Miniseries or a Movie for her role in the critically acclaimed Amber Waves, a television film about a rough farmer (Dennis Weaver) who finds he is dying of cancer. With One Trick Pony, starring Paul Simon, she also broke into feature films in that year. Winningham was nominated for a Canadian Genie Award for her role in the 1981 film Threshold, and she appeared in the 1983 epic miniseries The Thorn Birds, in which she played Justine O'Neill. Helen Keller appeared in Helen Keller's 1984 film The Miracle Continues.
Winningham appeared in St. Elmo's Fire (1985) alongside the other original "brat pack" alumni. Despite the film's success, she didn't get out of her teen idol status and returned to television in the Hallmark Hall of Fame film Love Is Never Silent, for which she received an Emmy Award. In the television series God Bless the Child, another well-known and well-received role was as a homeless young mother. Winningham completed the 1980s with two Hollywood films: Miracle Mile (1988), for which she received an Independent Spirit Award nomination in 1989, and Turner & Hooch in 1989. Winningham appeared in the Los Angeles stage production of Hurlyburly with Sean Penn and Danny Aiello in 1988.
She made a cameback to film in the early 1990s for Wyatt Earp and the family tragedy The War, both starring Kevin Costner. Georgia, 1995, a reflective character analysis of two sisters (Winningham and Jennifer Jason Leigh), which received Winningham Screen Actors Guild and Academy Award nominations. She appeared in George Wallace as Gary Sinise, earning her Golden Globe Award nomination and winning an Emmy Award two years later.
She made international television appearances on the series ER and Law & Order: Special Victims Unit, as well as appearances in the 2001 television series Sally Hemings opposite Sam Neill and the short-lived David E. Kelley film The Brotherhood of Poland, New Hampshire. Felicity Huffman appeared in the made-for-TV film Snap Decision in 2001. She appeared in the independent film Dandelion, which was also a staple of film festivals around the world from 2003 to 2004, and in October 2005, she released a limited American version.
She landed the role of Susan Grey on ABC's Grey's Anatomy, where she played the stepmother of one of the main characters, Dr. Meredith Grey. In May 2007, her character was shattered. Winningham produced the audio version of Stephen King's Lisey's Story in 2006. Alice Hoffman's Skylight Confessions appeared in 2007. Winningham appeared in a series of Cold Case as the main character Lilly Rush's stepmother, Celeste Cooper. Ellis Hartley Monroe, a fictional character on Torchwood: Miracle Day, appeared in the fourth episode of Torchwood: Miracle Day in 2011. She has also appeared in Mildred Pierce and Hatfields & McCoys, earning her two Emmy nominations. In Nina Raine's award-winning comic-drama Tribes, Beth, the mother of an intellectually dysfunctional British family, appeared Off-Broadway as Beth. With Michael Keaton, she appeared in Dopesick on Hulu in 2021.
She was nominated for her second Tony in 2022 for her leading role in Girl from the North Country.
Winningham has mixed film career with a film career, and has used some of her films to highlight her singing. In One Trick Pony, she can be seen performing a few bars of "Me and Bobby McGee." She performed six songs in the film, all written by Janis Ian in 1981. She was a teen runaway with the intention to be a singer in the TV film Freedom in 1981, and she performed six songs. In Teresa's Tattoo, she appeared as a club singer and performed three songs in the film Georgia.
Winningham has released four albums: What Might Be (1992) on the Bay Cities label, Lonesomers (1997), produced by Carla Olson on the Razor and Tie label, and Refuge Rock Sublime (2007) on the Craig & Co. label. Lonesomers is a folky band that deals with love issues. The refuge Rock Sublime's country/bluegrass/Jewish/folk songs center on her recent conversion to Judaism, as well as the tracks "What Will David Do," "A Convert Jig" and Israel's national anthem "Hatikva." In March 2014, Winningham unveiled her fourth album What's Left Behind on digital stores.
