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Mare Winningham
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Mare Winningham, born Mary Megan Winningham on May 16, 1959, in Phoenix, Arizona, is an American actor, singer-songwriter, and composer. She began her work period in 1976 and is primarily associated with acting and music composing. Her professional fields include acting, music, and music composing, and she works as a television actor.
Winningham has received a Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Miniseries or a Movie. She has also been nominated for an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress, a Tony Award for Best Featured Actress in a Play, and another Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Miniseries or a Movie. She speaks, writes, and signs in English. Her notable works span music and acting, with tags including folk, classic rock, and singer-songwriter. She has been married to A Martinez and Anthony Edwards.
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Film & TV
Phoenix, Arizona, USA
Mary Megan "Mare" Winningham (born May 16, 1959) is an American actress and singer-songwriter. She is the recipient of two Primetime Emmy Awards and has been nominated for an Academy Award, two Golden Globe Awards and a Tony Award.
Known for
- Your Friends & Neighbors — Elaine Naft2025
- Rob Peace — Professor Durham2024
- Death Wish — Mom (voice)2024
- Girl From the North Country — Elizabeth Laine2024
- All My Puny Sorrows — Lottie Von Riesen2022
- Dopesick — Diane Mallum2021
- News of the World — Doris Boudlin2020
- The Outsider — Jeannie Anderson2020
- Dark Waters — Darlene Kiger2019
- The Seagull — Polina Andryevna2018
via TMDB
Music · MusicBrainz
- Type
- Person
- Gender
- Female
- Country
- United States
- Active from
- 1959
Discography
- What Might Be1992
- Lonesomers1998
- Refuge Rock Sublime2007
- What’s Left Behind2014
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Listeners · Last.fm
- Listeners
- 1,248
- Total plays
- 7,236
Tags
Mary Megan 'Mare' Winningham (born 1959) is an American singer-songwriter and Emmy award-winning actress, best known to many for her role as Wendy Beamish in the 1985 film "St. Elmo's Fire". <a href="https://www.last.fm/music/Mare+Winningham">Read more on Last.fm</a>
Key facts
- Born
- Mary Megan Winningham , ( 1959-05-16 ) May 16, 1959 (age 67) , Phoenix, Arizona , U.S.
- Occupations
- Actress singer-songwriter
- Years active
- 1976–present
- Spouses
- A Martinez ( married</span>"}]]}'>m. 1981 ; divorced</span>"}]]}'>div. 1981 ) William Mapel, ( married</span>"}]]}'>m. 198?; divorced</span>"}]]}'>div. 1994) Jason Trucco, ( married</span>"}]]}'>m. ??; divorced</span>"}]]}'>div. ??) Anthony Edwards ( married</span>"}]]}'>m. 2021 )
- Father
- Sam Winningham
- Genres
- Bluegrass blues folk
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Gender
- female
- Citizenship
- United States
- Place of birth
- Phoenix
- Spouse
- Anthony Edwards
- Occupation
- singer
- Languages spoken
- English language
- Native language
- English language
- Field of work
- music
- Image
- MareWinningham-byPhilipRomano.jpg
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- Mare Winningham
- date of birth
- 1959-05-16
- start of work period
- 1976-00-00
- birth name
- Mary Megan Winningham
- writing language
- English language
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Encyclopedic overview
Mary Megan "Mare" Winningham (/mɛər/ MAIR; born May 16, 1959) is an American actress and singer-songwriter. She is the recipient of two Primetime Emmy Awards and has been nominated for an Academy Award, two Golden Globe Awards, and two Tony Awards.
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.
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