Mare Winningham Biography

Mare Winningham born “Mary Megan “Mare” Winningham” is an American actress and singer-songwriter. She is well known as an eight-time Emmy Award nominee, she won Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Miniseries or Movie for Amber Waves in 1980 and George Wallace in 1998. She as well got nominated for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for the 1995 film Georgia.

Mare Winningham Age

Winningham was born in Phoenix, Arizona on 16th of May 16, 1959, She is 59 years old as of 2018.

Mare Winningham Family and Early life

She was born the daughter of Marilyn Jean and Sam Neal Winningham, She was raised in Northridge, California along with her three brothers and one sister. Her father worked as the chairman of the Department of Physical Education at California State University, Northridge (CSUN) while her mother was an English teacher and college counselor at Monroe High School.

Mare Winningham Husband

She has been married three times, She first, got married to Martinez for one year (1981–81), the same year she got married to William Mapel (1981 -96) kept their relation almost 6 years. At last, She later fell in with Jason Trucco and married in 2008, The pair later divorced in 2012,

Mare Winningham Children

She has five children named Riley Mapel, Happy Atticus Mapel, Patrick Mapel, Jack Mapel, Calla Louise Mapel.

Mare Winningham Education

Winningham got enrolled at Andasol Ave. Elementary School, she got involved in drama, playing the guitar and drums. She got interested with drama option at Patrick Henry Junior High School and continued to study over her summer vacations at CSUN’s Teenage Drama Workshop. She later graduated in co-valedictorian of her high school class in 1977.

Mare Winningham Career

Mare started off he career with sing and write songs in 1976 and 1977. She got a had a chance to sing on The Gong Show. She later bagged an acting contract with Meyer Mishkin and was asked to say three lines in James at 15. 1978. She as well starred in the short-lived drama called The Young Pioneers. She then started getting more acting roles on TV.

In 1985 she was featured in St Elmo’s fire that she started to get noticed. She later took back on TV roles and starred in Hallmark Hall of Fame movie called Love is Never Silent. She as well featured in God Bless the Child as a young homeless mother. She got film roles in the 1990s and was featured in the family drama called The War and also in Wyatt Earp. She played the role of George Wallace got her an Emmy award. With her TV roles such as in ER and Law and Order, Special Victims Unit. She played as Susan in Grey’s Anatomy. She also got voice roles and also appeared as Beth in Off-Broadway drama Tribes.

She alternated her film career with a music career 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. 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 in 1981. She as well appeared as a club singer in the film Teresa’s Tattoo and sang three songs in the film Georgia.

She recorded four albums, What Might Be of 1992 on the Bay Cities label, Lonesomers of 1998, produced by Carla Olson on the Razor and Tie label, and Refuge Rock Sublime of 2007 on the Craig & Co. label. Lonesome is a folksy album dealing with relationship issues. The country/bluegrass/Jewish/folk songs on Refuge Rock Sublime deal mostly with her recent conversion to Judaism, and include the tracks, “What Would David Do,” “A Convert Jig” and the Israeli national anthem “Hatikva”. Winningham released her fourth album What’s Left Behind independently on digital outlets in March 2014.

Mare Winningham Grey’s Anatomy

Mare Winningham played the role Susan Grey is Thatcher Grey’s second wife and Molly and Lexie’s mom. Susan gets to meet Meredith during the hospitalization of her daughter Molly, who’s having some complications while she was pregnant. From the very first moment, Susan tries to have a friendly relationship with Meredith, but in return doesn’t want to have any type of relationship with her father’s new family. Susan supports Meredith after Ellis passes, and the two get closer In the third season.

Mare Winningham Net Worth

Mare has an estimated net worth of $1.5 million as of now.

Mare Winningham Movies

• The Seagull (2018)
• O.G. (2018)
• Geostorm (2017)
• Philomena (2013)
• Mirror Mirror (2012)
• Brothers (2009)
• Swing Vote (2008)
• War Eagle, Arkansas (2007)
• The Magic of Ordinary Days (2005)
• Dandelion (2004)
• The Adventures of Ociee Nash (2003)
• The Maldonado Miracle (2003)
• Tru Confessions (2002)
• Snap Decision (2001)
• Sharing the Secret (2000)
• Sally Hemings: An American Scandal (2000)
• Too Rich: The Secret Life of Doris Duke (1999)
• Little Girl Fly Away (1998)
• Everything That Rises (1998)
• George Wallace (1997)
• Bad Day on the Block (1997)
• The Deliverance of Elaine (1996)
• The Boys Next Door (1996)
• Letter to My Killer (1995)
• Georgia (1995)
• The War (1994)
• Wyatt Earp (1994)
• Teresa’s Tattoo (1994)
• Betrayed by Love (1994)

Mare Winningham Tv Shows

• The Affair (2014-2018)
• American Horror Story (2013-2017)
• Under the Dome (2013)
• Hawaii Five-0 (2013)
• Hatfields & McCoy (mini-series) (2012)
• Torchwood (2011)
• Mildred Pierce (mini-series) (2011)
• Criminal Minds (2010)
• 24 (2010)
• Cold Case (2010)
• CSI: NY (2009)
• Boston Legal (2007)
• Grey’s Anatomy (2006-2007)
• Clubhouse (2004-2005)
• The Brotherhood of Poland, New Hampshire (2003)
• Law & Order: Special Victims Unit (2003)
• Touched by an Angel (2002)
• Six Feet Under (2002)
• Night Visions (2001)
• ER (1998-1999)
• Mad About You (1997-1998)

Mare Winningham Turner And Hooch

Turner & Hooch is about a tidy small-town police investigator named Scott Turner who ends up taking in Hooch, a rambunctious Dogue de Bordeaux dog that was the only witness to the murder of his owner, Amos Reed. Hooch ruins most of Turner’s possessions, including his car, but helps him meet and fall for the local veterinarian Dr. Emily Carson (Mare Winningham) and solve the case.

Different writers, including Michael Blodgett (gigolo Lance Rocke in Beyond the Valley of the Dolls), were Appreciated with play for what some thought was a surprisingly violent and dark feature for a “Disney movie.”

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