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Sun 26
Joan of Arcadia: Death Be Not Whatever — Mary Steenburgen
God advises Joan to pay attention to behavior that may signal a person is having a problem. When she does, she ends up offering to help a stranger who needs a baby sitter for her son. This random act of kindness plays out while Will must decide if two policemen are guilty of using excessive force against a black motorist in a videotaped incident. Elsewhere, Helen meets secretly with Father Ken, who counsels her to be aware of the five stages of grief to help her cope with Kevin's paralysis.
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Sun 26
Joan of Arcadia: The Devil Made Me Do It — Mary Steenburgen
God's mysterious ways once again bewilder Joan, when He asks her to volunteer at the high-school art show, so that she can keep Adam Rove's sculpture from being exhibited. Elsewhere, Will feels pressure from the DA's office to call a man a hero after he shoots and kills a home intruder. Meanwhile, Kevin grows weary of receiving special treatment because he uses a wheelchair. Father Ken: David Burke. Gabe Fellowes: John Getz. Mayor Albert Dunbar: Richard Gilliland. Toni: April Grace.
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Sun 2
Joan of Arcadia: St. Joan — Mary Steenburgen
God wants Joan to score an "A" on a test about French saint Joan of Arc. As the teen hits the books, she draws comparisons to the life of the young heroine who claimed to hear divine voices and was burnt at the stake. Helen finds her daughter's newest obsession troublesome and urges Will to have the entire family visit a therapist. Meanwhile, Will is unjustly raked over the coals for shutting down a crack house. DA Gabe Fellowes: John Getz. Adam: Christopher Marquette.
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Sun 2
Joan of Arcadia: Drive, He Said — Mary Steenburgen
Each of the Girardis deal with crises of varying seriousness, the worst of which puts Will at the mercy of a crazed gunman (Evan Jones). The day also finds Helen reacting with mixed emotions after getting a positive result on a home-pregnancy test. Meanwhile, Joan dreads having to take her driver's exam, and Luke is presented with a major distraction just before he's supposed to compete in a high-stakes competition. Adam: Christopher Marquette. Friedman: Aaron Himelstein.
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Sun 2
Frasier: Retirement Is Murder — Mary Steenburgen
Martin's obsession with solving the Weeping Lotus murder just won't die.
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Biography
About Mary Steenburgen
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Curly haired, sandy-voiced actress Mary Steenburgen is a natural when it comes to playing Southerners, probably because she hails from the region herself. Born in Arkansas on February 8, 1953, Steenburgen was the daughter of a railroad employee. Pursuing drama in college, she headed to New York in 1972, where she worked with an improvisational troupe.
She was spotted by Jack Nicholson, who cast her as his feisty "in name only" frontier wife in 1978's Goin' South. Two years later, she won a Best Supporting Actress Oscar for her performance as Melvin Dummar's inamorata in Melvin and Howard (1980).
Able to convey a wide age and character range, Steenburgen was effectively cast as a free-spirited Frisco girl in Time After Time (1979), the corseted matriarch of a turn-of-the-century household in Ragtime (1981), prim authoress Marjorie Rawlins in Cross Creek (1983), a long-suffering suburban housewife in Parenthood (1989), and a Marcia Clark-like attorney in Philadelphia (1993). She also portrayed the Jules Verne-loving Western schoolmarm Clara in Back to the Future 3 (1990), a role she perpetuated (via voice-over) on the Back to the Future TV cartoon series. In 1988, she was executive producer of End of the Line, in which she also appeared.
Steenburgen's film appearances throughout the 1990s were erratic: some highlights, in addition to Philadelphia, include What's Eating Gilbert Grape (1993), Nixon (1995), and The Grass Harp (1995). In 1999, she starred as Noah's wife in the biblical epic Noah's Ark, sharing the screen with the likes of Jon Voight, F. Murray Abraham, James Coburn, and Carol Kane.
As the 21st century began, Steenburgen continued to work steadily in projects such as Life as a House, I Am Sam, Sunshine State, and Elf. She was cast in the CBS drama Joan of Arcadia in 2003. In 2006 she appeared in David Lynch's Inland Empire, and the next year she starred opposite Jodie Foster in the vigilante drama The Brave One.
She was cast in the comedies Step Brothers and Four Christmases in 2008, and in 2011 she was the editor who inspires the main character to write the book in The Help.
Formerly married for several years to actor Malcolm McDowell, Steenburgen married former Cheers star Ted Danson in 1995. The two have collaborated on a number of projects, including 1994's Pontiac Moon and the made-for-TV Gulliver's Travels in 1996.