Mare Winningham

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Mare Winningham
Winningham in 2012
Born
Mary Megan Winningham

(1959-05-16) May 16, 1959 (age 64)
Phoenix, Arizona, U.S.
Occupations
  • Actress
  • singer-songwriter
Years active1976–present
Spouses
​
​
(m. 1981; div. 1981)​
William Mapel
​
(divorced)​
Jason Trucco
​
(divorced)​
​
(m. 2021)​
[1]
Children5
Musical career
Genres

Mary Megan Winningham, known professionally as Mare Winningham (

Tony Awards
.

An eight-time

Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Miniseries or Movie for Amber Waves in 1980 and George Wallace in 1998. She was also nominated for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for the 1995 film Georgia
.

Winningham's other film and TV roles include

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).

Winningham made her New York stage debut in the 2007

Broadway debut in the 2013 revival of Picnic. In 2014, she was nominated for the Tony Award for Best Featured Actress in a Play for the original Broadway production of Casa Valentina. She was cast as Cherry Lockhart for Seasons 1–2 and 4 as Cole's mother in the TV series The Affair
.

Early life

Winningham was born in

House Party
when she was five or six years old.

Winningham attended Andasol Avenue Elementary School, where her favorite activities included drama and playing the guitar and drums. She took the extended drama option at Patrick Henry Junior High School and continued to study over her summer vacations at CSUN's Teenage Drama Workshop. It was at this time that she adopted the nickname "Mare". Her mother arranged for her to go to Chatsworth High School. In grade 12, Winningham starred in a production of The Sound of Music, playing the part 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 high school class in 1977.[10]

Career

Acting

Winningham began her career as a singer-songwriter. In 1976 and 1977, she got her break singing

Starsky and Hutch
in 1979. Later that same year, she played the role of teenage outcast Jenny Flowers in the made-for-TV film The Death of Ocean View Park.

In 1980, Winningham starred in Off the Minnesota Strip playing a young prostitute. She then won an

Genie Award for her work in 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 starred as Helen Keller in Helen Keller: The Miracle Continues.[3]

Winningham achieved greater fame co-starring in

Independent Spirit Award nomination in 1989, and the Tom Hanks vehicle Turner & Hooch in 1989. In 1988, Winningham also starred in the Los Angeles stage production of Hurlyburly with Sean Penn and Danny Aiello
.

In the early 1990s, she returned to film for 1994's all-star

Emmy Award.[12]

She made acclaimed appearances on the series

film festivals
worldwide between 2003 and 2004 and had a limited American release in October 2005.

In 2006, she landed the role of Susan Grey on the ABC drama

Lilly Rush's stepmother, Celeste Cooper. In 2011 she appeared in the fourth episode of Torchwood: Miracle Day as character Ellis Hartley Monroe.[13] She also starred in miniseries Mildred Pierce and Hatfields & McCoys and garnered another two Emmy nominations.[12] In 2012, she appeared Off-Broadway as Beth, the mother in an intellectual, though dysfunctional, British family, in the award-winning comic-drama Tribes by Nina Raine. In 2021 she appeared in Dopesick
on Hulu with Michael Keaton.

In 2022, she was nominated for a second Tony for her leading performance in Girl from the North Country.

Music

Winningham has alternated her film career with a music career,[14] and has used some of her films as a way to showcase her singing. She can be heard singing a few bars of "Me and Bobby McGee" in One Trick Pony. In 1981, she played a teenage runaway with an aspiration to become a singer in the TV film Freedom, and sang six songs in the film, all written by Janis Ian. She appeared as a club singer in the film Teresa's Tattoo, and sang three songs in the film Georgia.

Winningham has recorded four albums:

Hatikva
". Winningham released her fourth album What's Left Behind independently on digital outlets in March 2014.

Personal life

Winningham has been married four times and divorced three. In the early 1980s, she was briefly married to actor A Martinez. They both starred in the miniseries The Young Pioneers.[15] After their divorce, she married television technical advisor William Mapel, with whom she had five children: Riley Mapel was the oldest son (b. 1981) and died of suicide in 2005; Patrick Mapel (b. 1983); Jack Mapel (b. 1985); the only daughter Calla Louise Mapel (b. 1987) and Happy Atticus Mapel (b. 1988). The marriage ended in 1994.[16] Winningham later married and divorced artist Jason Trucco. At the end of 2021, she and long-time friend and fellow actor Anthony Edwards eloped.[17] The two have known each other for 35 years.[18][19]

Winningham was raised a Roman Catholic. She converted to Judaism in her early 40s as a personal decision having nothing to do with a marriage, and is an observant Jew.[20]

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 and nominations received by Mare Winningham

References

  1. ^ Jackson, Dory (February 23, 2022). "Anthony Edwards and Mare Winningham Quietly Eloped Last Year: 'We're Too Old to Throw Weddings'". People. Retrieved May 12, 2022.
  2. Cengage
    . Retrieved June 10, 2022.
  3. ^ a b c d e f "Mare Winningham". Yahoo Movies. Archived from the original on December 4, 2013.
  4. ^ "Elusive Break". tribunedigital-chicagotribune.
  5. ^ "Edward-J-Maloney-Papillion – User Trees". Genealogy.com.
  6. ^ "Mare Winningham".
  7. ^ Smith, Cecil (May 5, 1980). "Mare Does a Lot of Cheering: Actress Mare Winningham". Los Angeles Times.
  8. ^ Kaufman, Joanne (January 9, 2013). "They Call Her 'Mama'". Wall Street Journal. Retrieved November 29, 2016.
  9. ^ "From 'Top Gun' to '10 Commandments,' Val Kilmer's New Book Details Highs and Lows". Variety. April 30, 2020.
  10. ^ "A Conversation with Kevin Spacey". cinequest.org.
  11. YouTube
  12. ^ a b c "Mare Winningham". Television Academy.
  13. ^ Doctor Who Magazine (435). June 2011. {{cite journal}}: Missing or empty |title= (help)
  14. ^ Wyma, Mike (March 29, 1991). "Actress Has Her Sights Set on a Musical Career". Los Angeles Times. Retrieved June 3, 2019.
  15. ^ Buchalter, Gail (May 25, 1981). "Her Name Rhymes with Flair, and Actress Mare Winningham Has It to Spare". People. Retrieved October 19, 2020.
  16. ^ Welsh, Anne Marie (April 6, 2008). "Mare Winningham, deep in the heart of Tennessee". Los Angeles Times. Archived from the original on January 14, 2022.
  17. ^ title=Anthony Edwards Knows Some Good Things Take Time|https://www.esquire.com/entertainment/tv/a39038065/anthony-edwards-life-after-er-inventing-anna-2022/
  18. ^ Roberto, Melissa (April 25, 2020). "'Top Gun' star Anthony Edwards reveals how he's connecting with others in quarantine amid the coronavirus pandemic". Fox News. Retrieved March 21, 2021.
  19. ^ Teeman, Tim (April 17, 2018). "'ER' Star Anthony Edwards: I Don't See My Childhood Sexual Abuse as a 'Tragedy'". The Daily Beast. Retrieved March 21, 2021.
  20. ^ Kurtz, Suzanne (March 16, 2007). "Actress Mare Winningham Sings a "Convert's Jig"". Hillel News. Retrieved October 19, 2020.

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