Mare Winningham

Mary Megan Mare Winningham is an American actress and singersongwriter. An eighttime Emmy Award nominee, she won 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 was born in Phoenix, Arizona, and raised in Northridge, California. She is the daughter of Marilyn Jean and Sam Neal Winningham. She has three brothers and one sister. Her father was the chairman of the Department of Physical Education at California State University, Northridge and her mother was an English teacher and college counselor at Monroe High School. She credits her first interest in acting to seeing an interview with Kym Karath on Art Linkletters television show House Party when she was five or six years old.

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