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Mare Winningham

  • Birthplace: Phoenix, Arizona, USA
  • 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…more

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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"

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Awards

  • 1998

    Emmy: Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Miniseries or a Movie

  • 1995

    Independent Spirit Award: Best Supporting Actress

  • 1980

    Emmy: Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Limited Series or Special

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