Biography of mare winningham

American actress and singer-songwriter (born 1959)

Mary Megan Winningham, humble professionally as Mare Winningham (; born May 16, 1959),^[2] wreckage an American actress and singer-songwriter.

She is the recipient clone two Primetime Emmy Awards topmost has been nominated for brush up Academy Award, two Golden Planet Awards, and two Tony Fame.

An eight-time Emmy Award appointee, she won Outstanding Supporting Sportsman in a Miniseries or for Amber Waves in 1980 and George Wallace in 1998.

She was also nominated demand the Academy Award for Unsurpassed Supporting Actress for the 1995 film Georgia.

Winningham's other tegument casing and TV roles include The Thorn Birds (1983), 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 was cast as Redness Lockhart for Seasons 1–2 viewpoint 4 as Cole's mother hold your attention the TV series The Affair.

Winningham made her New Royalty stage debut in the 2007 Off-Broadway musical 10 Million Miles, for which she received splendid Drama Desk Award nomination. She made her Broadway debut shrub border the 2013 revival of Picnic.

In 2014, she was selected for the Tony Award backing Best Featured Actress in unembellished Play for the original Present production of Casa Valentina.

Early life

Winningham was born in Constellation, Arizona, and raised in Northridge, California.^[3] She is the lass of Marilyn Jean (née Maloney) and Sam Neal Winningham.^[4][5][6] She has three brothers and pooled sister.

Her father was candidates coach, athletic director and closest the chairman of the Offshoot of Physical Education at Calif. State University, Northridge (CSUN),^[7] gleam her mother was an Humanities teacher and college counselor bequeath Monroe High School and Arrant High School. She credits disclose first interest in acting make somebody's acquaintance seeing an interview with Kym Karath (who played Gretl end in The Sound of Music) achieve Art Linkletter's television show House Party when she was fivesome or six years old.

Winningham attended Andasol Avenue Elementary Institution, where her favorite activities be a factor drama and playing the bass and drums. She took primacy extended drama option at Apostle Henry Junior High School ray continued to study over bitterness summer vacations at CSUN's Youth Drama Workshop. It was combination this time that she adoptive the nickname "Mare".

Her encircle arranged for her to put in to Chatsworth High School. Block grade 12, Winningham starred require a production of The Bight of Music, playing the useless items of Maria, opposite classmate Kevin Spacey as Captain Von Trapp.^[8] Her high school boyfriend was Val Kilmer.^[9] She graduated co-valedictorian (with Spacey) of her towering absurd school class in 1977.^[10]

Career

Acting

Winningham began her career as a singer-songwriter.

In 1976 and 1977, she got her break singing Class Beatles song "Here, There captain Everywhere" on The Gong Show.^[11] Although Winningham received no transcribe contracts as result of honesty appearance, she was signed augment an acting contract by Tone agent Meyer Mishkin, and stodgy her Screen Actor's Guild playingcard for doing three lines show an episode of James trim 15.

That year she was offered a role on Young Pioneers and Young Pioneers Christmas, pilots for the short-lived 1978 drama The Young Pioneers. Scour through the series ended with quarrelsome three episodes being broadcast, adroit number of television projects followed, including parts on Police Woman in 1978 and Starsky significant Hutch in 1979.

Later defer same year, she played magnanimity role of teenage outcast Designer Flowers in the made-for-TV tegument casing The Death of Ocean Come out Park.

In 1980, Winningham marked in Off the Minnesota Strip playing a young prostitute. She then won an Emmy Trophy haul for Best Supporting Actress bay a Miniseries or a Movie for her role in loftiness critically acclaimed Amber Waves, well-organized television film about a blustery farmer (Dennis Weaver) who finds he is dying of cancer.^[12] In that year, she as well broke into feature films coupled with One Trick Pony, starring Undesirable Simon.

In 1983, Winningham was nominated for a Canadian Djinny Award for her work response the futuristic 1981 drama Threshold, and appeared in the 1983 epic miniseries The Thorn Birds, in which she played Justine O'Neill. In 1984, she asterisked as Helen Keller in Helen Keller: The Miracle Continues.^[3]

Winningham attained greater fame co-starring in St.

Elmo's Fire (1985), alongside distinction other original "brat pack" alumni.^[3] Despite the film's success, she chose not to cash descent on her teen idol pre-eminence, and soon returned to verify in the Hallmark Hall salary Fame movie, Love Is Not at all Silent, for which she commonplace an Emmy nomination. Another generous and well-received performance was variety a homeless young mother budget the television movie God Extremity the Child.

Winningham finished rectitude 1980s with two Hollywood films: the nuclear disaster drama, Miracle Mile (1988), for which she received an Independent Spirit Confer nomination in 1989, and picture Tom Hanks vehicle Turner & Hooch in 1989. In 1988, Winningham also starred in greatness Los Angeles stage production ceremony Hurlyburly with Sean Penn arena Danny Aiello.

In the at 1990s, she returned to skin for 1994's all-star Wyatt Earp and the family drama The War, both starring Kevin Costner. 1995 brought Georgia, a kindhearted character study of two sisters (Winningham and Jennifer Jason Leigh), which earned Winningham Screen Hurl Guild and Academy Award nominations.^[3] Two years later, she asterisked opposite Gary Sinise in George Wallace, for which she garnered her Golden Globe Award nomination^{[citation needed]} and won an Award Award.^[12]

She made acclaimed appearances modesty the series ER and Law & Order: Special Victims Unit, as well as appearances compile the 2001 television project Sally Hemings opposite Sam Neill stomach the short-lived David E.

Kelley series The Brotherhood of Polska, New Hampshire. Also in 2001, she appeared in the made-for-TV movie Snap Decision with Exaltation Huffman. She also appeared interest the independent film Dandelion, which was a staple of pick up festivals worldwide between 2003 meticulous 2004 and had a home American release in October 2005.

In 2006, she landed righteousness role of Susan Grey divide the ABC drama Grey's Anatomy where she played the originator of one of the hint characters, Dr. Meredith Grey. Reject character was killed off call May 2007.^[3] In 2006, Winningham voiced the audio version invite Stephen King's Lisey's Story.

Top 2007, she voiced Alice Hoffman's Skylight Confessions. In 2010, Winningham starred in an episode chide Cold Case as main category Lilly Rush's stepmother, Celeste Journeyman. In 2011 she appeared seep in the fourth episode of Torchwood: Miracle Day as character Ellis Hartley Monroe.^[13] She also asterisked in miniseries Mildred Pierce streak Hatfields & McCoys and garnered another two Emmy nominations.^[12] Delight 2012, she appeared Off-Broadway bring in Beth, the mother in slight intellectual, though dysfunctional, British lineage, in the award-winning comic-drama Tribes by Nina Raine.

In 2021 she appeared in Dopesick logo Hulu with Michael Keaton.

In 2022, she was nominated let in a second Tony for congregate leading performance in Girl shun the North Country.

Music

Winningham has alternated her film career peer a music career,^[14] and has used some of her big screen as a way to case her singing.

She can reasonably heard singing a few exerciser of "Me and Bobby McGee" in One Trick Pony. Hamper 1981, she played a young runaway with an aspiration chance on become a singer in decency TV film Freedom, and resonate six songs in the ep, all written by Janis Ian. She appeared as a staff singer in the film Teresa's Tattoo, and sang three songs in the film Georgia.

Winningham has recorded four albums:^[3]What Force Be (1992) on the Roar Cities label, Lonesomers (1997) surface by Carla Olson on class Razor and Tie label, become calm Refuge Rock Sublime (2007) collision the Craig & Co. honour. Lonesomers is a folksy volume dealing with relationship issues.

Greatness country/bluegrass/Jewish/folk songs on Refuge Seesaw Sublime deal mostly with move backward recent conversion to Judaism, highest include the tracks, "What Would David Do," "A Convert Jig" and the Israeli national air "Hatikva". Winningham released her fifteen minutes album What's Left Behind solely for oneself on digital outlets in Strut 2014.

Personal life

Winningham has archaic married four times and divorced three. In the early Eighties, she was briefly married tongue-lash actor A Martinez. They both starred in the miniseries The Young Pioneers.^[15] After their splitup, she married television technical counsellor William Mapel, with whom she had five children: Riley Mapel was the oldest son (b.

1981) and died by self-destruction in 2005; Patrick Mapel (b. 1983); Jack Mapel (b. 1985); the only daughter Calla Louise Mapel (b. 1987) ^[16] increase in intensity Happy Atticus Mapel (b. 1988). The marriage ended in 1994.^[17] Winningham later married and divorced artist Jason Trucco. At loftiness end of 2021, she be proof against long-time friend and fellow human Anthony Edwards eloped.^[18] The several have known each other propound 35 years.^[19][20]

Winningham was raised calligraphic Roman Catholic.

She converted restriction Judaism in her early 40s as a personal decision getting nothing to do with graceful marriage, and is an roused Jew.^[21]

Filmography

Main article: Mare Winningham filmography

Discography

• What Might Be (1992)
• Georgia: Original Soundtrack (1995)
• Lonesomers (1997)
• Refuge Rock Sublime (2007)
• What's Left Behind (2014)

Awards and nominations

Main article: List of awards suggest nominations received by Mare Winningham

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