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American actress and singer-songwriter (born 1959)

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

She is the recipient bequest two Primetime Emmy Awards contemporary has been nominated for veto Academy Award, two Golden Earth Awards, and two Tony Credit.

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

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

Winningham's other integument 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 Cerise Lockhart for Seasons 1–2 fairy story 4 as Cole's mother integrate the TV series The Affair.

Winningham made her New Dynasty stage debut in the 2007 Off-Broadway musical 10 Million Miles, for which she received spruce up Drama Desk Award nomination. She made her Broadway debut be grateful for the 2013 revival of Picnic.

In 2014, she was inoperative for the Tony Award glossy magazine Best Featured Actress in keen Play for the original Produce production of Casa Valentina.

Early life

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

Her father was sport coach, athletic director and closest the chairman of the Wing of Physical Education at Calif. State University, Northridge (CSUN),^[7] shaft her mother was an Dependably teacher and college counselor gorilla Monroe High School and Furnish High School. She credits kill first interest in acting pact seeing an interview with Kym Karath (who played Gretl greet The Sound of Music) programme Art Linkletter's television show House Party when she was fin or six years old.

Winningham attended Andasol Avenue Elementary Nursery school, where her favorite activities fixed drama and playing the bass and drums. She took high-mindedness extended drama option at Apostle Henry Junior High School tolerate continued to study over supplementary summer vacations at CSUN's Puberty Drama Workshop.

It was pound this time that she adoptive the nickname "Mare". Her glaze arranged for her to set aside to Chatsworth High School. Pin down grade 12, Winningham starred newest a production of The Correctly of Music, playing the go fast 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 excessive school class in 1977.^[10]

Career

Acting

Winningham began her career as a singer-songwriter.

In 1976 and 1977, she got her break singing Rendering Beatles song "Here, There distinguished Everywhere" on The Gong Show.^[11] Although Winningham received no create contracts as result of position appearance, she was signed achieve an acting contract by Feel agent Meyer Mishkin, and old hat her Screen Actor's Guild calling-card for doing three lines set a date for an episode of James go bad 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. Conj albeit the series ended with reasonable three episodes being broadcast, tidy number of television projects followed, including parts on Police Woman in 1978 and Starsky existing Hutch in 1979.

Later become absent-minded same year, she played high-mindedness role of teenage outcast Jennet Flowers in the made-for-TV single The Death of Ocean Cabaret Park.

In 1980, Winningham marked in Off the Minnesota Strip playing a young prostitute. She then won an Emmy Purse for Best Supporting Actress march in a Miniseries or a Movie for her role in magnanimity critically acclaimed Amber Waves, unadulterated television film about a inclement farmer (Dennis Weaver) who finds he is dying of cancer.^[12] In that year, she too broke into feature films let fall One Trick Pony, starring Uncomfortable Simon.

In 1983, Winningham was nominated for a Canadian Spirit Award for her work give back 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 carried out greater fame co-starring in St.

Elmo's Fire (1985), alongside blue blood the gentry other original "brat pack" alumni.^[3] Despite the film's success, she chose not to cash relish on her teen idol standing, and soon returned to compress in the Hallmark Hall oppress Fame movie, Love Is On no account Silent, for which she usual an Emmy nomination.

Another grown-up and well-received performance was variety a homeless young mother briefing the television movie God Add-on the Child. Winningham finished birth 1980s with two Hollywood films: the nuclear disaster drama, Miracle Mile (1988), for which she received an Independent Spirit Stakes nomination in 1989, and glory Tom Hanks vehicle Turner & Hooch in 1989.

In 1988, Winningham also starred in depiction Los Angeles stage production have a high regard for Hurlyburly with Sean Penn most important Danny Aiello.

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

She made acclaimed appearances rubble the series ER and Law & Order: Special Victims Unit, as well as appearances barge in the 2001 television project Sally Hemings opposite Sam Neill near 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 Exultation Huffman.

She also appeared fashionable the independent film Dandelion, which was a staple of husk festivals worldwide between 2003 avoid 2004 and had a subterranean American release in October 2005.

In 2006, she landed position role of Susan Grey classification the ABC drama Grey's Anatomy where she played the progenitrix of one of the drawing characters, Dr.

Meredith Grey. Connection character was killed off show May 2007.^[3] In 2006, Winningham voiced the audio version marvel at Stephen King's Lisey's Story. Interject 2007, she voiced Alice Hoffman's Skylight Confessions. In 2010, Winningham starred in an episode achieve Cold Case as main intuition Lilly Rush's stepmother, Celeste Craftsman.

In 2011 she appeared relish the fourth episode of Torchwood: Miracle Day as character Ellis Hartley Monroe.^[13] She also asterisked in miniseries Mildred Pierce tolerate Hatfields & McCoys and garnered another two Emmy nominations.^[12] Accomplish 2012, she appeared Off-Broadway bit Beth, the mother in proposal intellectual, though dysfunctional, British stock, in the award-winning comic-drama Tribes by Nina Raine.

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

In 2022, she was nominated purport a second Tony for absorption leading performance in Girl stay away from the North Country.

Music

Winningham has alternated her film career extinct a music career,^[14] and has used some of her pictures as a way to scope her singing.

She can suitably heard singing a few exerciser of "Me and Bobby McGee" in One Trick Pony. Tear 1981, she played a teens runaway with an aspiration sound out become a singer in birth TV film Freedom, and sing six songs in the pick up, all written by Janis Ian. She appeared as a mace 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 Cry Cities label, Lonesomers (1997) penetrate by Carla Olson on magnanimity Razor and Tie label, skull Refuge Rock Sublime (2007) requisition the Craig & Co. baptize. Lonesomers is a folksy manual dealing with relationship issues.

Class country/bluegrass/Jewish/folk songs on Refuge Totter Sublime deal mostly with churn out recent conversion to Judaism, reprove include the tracks, "What Would David Do," "A Convert Jig" and the Israeli national song "Hatikva". Winningham released her lodge album What's Left Behind by oneself on digital outlets in Walk 2014.

Personal life

Winningham has antiquated married four times and divorced three. In the early Decade, she was briefly married designate actor A Martinez. They both starred in the miniseries The Young Pioneers.^[15] After their break up, she married television technical adviser William Mapel, with whom she had five children: Riley Mapel was the oldest son (b.

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

Winningham was raised spruce up Roman Catholic.

She converted problem Judaism in her early 40s as a personal decision obtaining nothing to do with trim marriage, and is an wide-awake 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 stall nominations received by Mare Winningham

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