Mare Winningham

Birthplace: Phoenix, Arizona
Birthday: May 16, 1959

This critically acclaimed TV and stage performer's occasional films have been offbeat and of mixed quality. A fresh-faced, sandy-haired actress, Winningham made her TV debut at 16 singing on the infamous "The Gong Show", but copped a bigger break when her senior class performance as Maria in "The Sound of Music" impressed Hollywood agent Meyer Mishkin. The TV Western series "The Young Pioneers" (1978) lasted only three episodes, but Winningham made a favorable impression in the TV-movie "Special Olympics/A Special Kind of Love" (CBS, 1978), and…more

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Actor

She Stood Alone
Prudence Crandall
Missing Children: A Mother's Story
Kate Bradshaw
True Betrayal
Kim Paris
Better Off Dead
Kit Kellner
Freedom
Libby Bellow

Music

Freedom
Song Performer
Sexual Healing
Song Performer ("Well It's Gone")
Sexual Healing
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Career Milestones

2004
Guest-starred on an episode of NBC's "Law & Order: Special Victims Unit"; received an Emmy nomination for Best Guest Actress in a Drama Series
2003
Cast on the short-lived CBS' series "The Brotherhood of Poland, New Hampshire"
2002
Guest-starred on an episode of the HBO drama "Six Feet Under"
2001
Co-starred with Felicity Huffman in the based-on-fact Lifetime TV-movie "Snap Decision", playing a mother whose children are taken from her after a photographer friend photographs them and is then charged with child pornography
2001
Played the mother in the Pasadena Playhouse staging of "Side Man"