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The Academy Award® and Golden Globe winning actress is a Hollywood veteran, having appeared in countless roles on the big and small screen. Steenburgen is also an award-winning songwriter, having co-written the pivotal song from Neon’s critically acclaimed feature film Wild Rose. Steenburgen is known for her Oscar® winning work in Melvin and Howard in addition to unforgettable roles in What’s Eating Gilbert Grape, Step Brothers, and such television shows as “Justified,” “Orange is the New Black,” and HBO’s “Togetherness” and “Curb Your Enthusiasm.”

Steenburgen currently stars on NBC’s musical television sensation “Zoey’s Extraordinary Playlist” alongside Jane Levy, Peter Gallagher, Skyler Astin, and Lauren Graham. She starred for four seasons on Fox’s critically acclaimed comedy series “The Last Man on Earth” opposite Will Forte.

In 2018, Steenburgen starred in Paramount Pictures film Book Club alongside Diane Keaton, Jane Fonda and Candice Bergen. In 2017, Steenburgen appeared opposite Lake Bell, Ed Helms and Paul Reiser in the comedy feature I Do… Until I Don’t. She also had a starring turn opposite Kevin Kline in the CBS films feature Dean and appeared alongside Jason Sudeikis & Jessica Biel in The Book of Love, which was screened at the 2016 Tribeca Film Festival.

In addition to her work in film and television, Steenburgen is a singer/songwriter for Warner Chappell and has collaborated with acclaimed artists such as Tim McGraw, Kate York, Caitlyn Smith, Matraca Berg, Troy Verges, Jeremy Spillman, Luke Laird, Lori McKenna and many others. She co-wrote the song “Glasgow” with Nashville songwriters Kate York and Caitlyn Smith for Neon’s critically acclaimed film Wild Rose. In addition to the song being shortlisted for an Academy Award for Best Original Song, “Glasgow” also won both the Critics’ Choice Award and the Hollywood Critics Association Award for Best Original Song. Steenburgen has written songs for films including Last Vegas and Dirty Girl (co-written with Melissa Manchester) and is currently writing the music for the animated film adaptation of the book The Underneath.

Her additional film and television credits include: “Curb your Enthusiasm,” “Orange is the New Black,” “30 Rock,” “Bored to Death,” and “Wilfred,” Goin’ South, Time After Time, Ragtime, Philadelphia, Back to the Future Part III, Cross Creek, A Midsummer Night’s Sex Comedy, Miss Firecracker, The Proposal, Elf, Dirty Girl, Four Christmases, The Help, Last Vegas, and Song One.

A proud member of the Atlantic Theater Company, Steenburgen’s theater credits include “Holiday” (London’s Old Vic, directed by Lindsay Anderson), “Candida,” “Marvin’s Room,” “The Beginning of August,” and “The Exonerated.”

Steenburgen lives in Los Angeles with her husband Ted Danson.