Mary Megan "Mare" Winningham (born May 16, 1959) is an American actress and singer-songwriter. She is the recipient of two Primetime Emmy Awards and has been nominated for an Academy Award, two Golden Globe Awards and a Tony Award.

Filmography

• Your Friends & Neighbors — Elaine Naft
• 2024Death Wish — Mom (voice)
• 2024Girl From the North Country — Elizabeth Laine
• 2024Rob Peace — Professor Durham
• 2022All My Puny Sorrows — Lottie Von Riesen
• Dopesick — Diane Mallum
• 2020News of the World — Doris Boudlin
• The Outsider — Jeannie Anderson
• 2019Dark Waters — Darlene Kiger
• 2018O.G. — Janice
• 2018The Seagull — Polina Andryevna
• 2017Geostorm — Cassandra Jennings
• The Affair — Cherry Lockhart
• 2013Philomena — Mary Hess
• Under the Dome — Agatha Seagrave
• Hatfields & McCoys — Sally McCoy
• 2012Mirror Mirror — Baker Margaret
• American Horror Story — Alicia Spencer, Rita Gayheart, Sally Keffler, Hazel Evers
• Mildred Pierce — Ida Corwin
• Hawaii Five-0 — Terry Beckett
• 2009Brothers — Elsie Cahill
• 2008Swing Vote — Larissa Johnson
• 2007War Eagle, Arkansas — Belle, Enoch's Mother
• Torchwood — Ellis Hartley Monroe
• Grey's Anatomy — Susan Grey
• 2005The Magic of Ordinary Days — Martha
• Boston Legal — Patrice Kelly
• CSI: NY — Katherine Donovan
• Clubhouse — Lynne Young
• 2004Dandelion — Layla Mullich
• 2004The Adventures of Ociee Nash — Aunt Mamie Nash
• Cold Case — Celeste Cooper (2010)
• The Brotherhood of Poland, New Hampshire — Dottie Shaw
• 2003The Maldonado Miracle — Maisie
• 2002Tru Confessions — Ginny
• 24 — Elaine Al-Zacar
• Night Visions — Kate Morris (segment "Still Life")
• Six Feet Under — Eileen Piper
• 2001Snap Decision — Jennifer Bradley
• 2000Sally Hemings: An American Scandal — Martha 'Patsy' Jefferson Randolph
• Sally Hemings: An American Scandal — Martha 'Patsy' Jefferson Randolph
• 2000Sharing the Secret — Dr. Nina Moss
• Law & Order: Special Victims Unit — Sandra Blaine
• Too Rich: The Secret Life of Doris Duke — Chandi Heffner
• 1998Everything That Rises — Kyle Clay
• 1998Little Girl Fly Away — Cath
• 1997George Wallace — Lurleen Wallace
• George Wallace — Lurleen Wallace
• 1997Under Pressure — Catherine Braverton
• 1996The Boys Next Door — Sheila
• 1996The Deliverance of Elaine — Elaine Hodges
• 1995Georgia — Georgia Flood
• 1995Letter to My Killer
• 1994Betrayed by Love — Dana
• ER — Amanda Lee
• 1994Teresa's Tattoo — Singer
• 1994The War — Lois Simmons
• Touched by an Angel — Dr. Maggie de Santo
• 1994Wyatt Earp — Mattie Blaylock
• 1993Better Off Dead. — Kit Kellner
• 1993Sexual Healing — Marta
• 1992Hard Promises — Dawn
• Intruders — Mary Wilkes
• Mad About You — Sarah McCain
• 1992Those Secrets — Faye
• 1991Fatal Exposure — Jamie Hurd
• 1991She Stood Alone — Prudence Crandall
• 1990Crossing to Freedom — Nicole Rougeron
• 1990Love and Lies — Kim Paris
• 1989Miracle Mile — Julie Peters
• 1989Turner & Hooch — Emily Carson
• 1988God Bless the Child — Theresa Johnson
• 1987Eye on the Sparrow — Ethel Lee
• 1987Made in Heaven — Brenda Carlucci
• 1987Shy People — Candy
• 1986A Winner Never Quits — Annie
• 1986Nobody's Fool — Pat
• 1986Who Is Julia? — Mary Frances Bodine
• 1985Love Is Never Silent — Margaret Ryder
• 1985One Too Many — Beth
• 1985St. Elmo's Fire — Wendy Beamish
• The Twilight Zone — Norma Lewis (segment "Button, Button")
• 1984Helen Keller: The Miracle Continues — Helen Keller
• 1984Single Bars, Single Women — Bootsie
• The Thorn Birds — Justine O'Neill
• 1982Missing Children: A Mother's Story — Kate Bradshaw
• 1981A Few Days at Weasel Creek — Locksley Claitor
• 1981Freedom — Libby Bellow
• 1981Threshold — Carol Severance
• 1980Amber Waves — Marlene Burkhardt
• 1980Off the Minnesota Strip — Micki Johansen
• 1980One Trick Pony — Modeena Dandridge
• 1980The Women's Room — Chris
• 1979The Death of Ocean View Park — Jenny Flowers
• 1978Special Olympics — Janice Gallitzin
• The Young Pioneers — Nettie Peters
• Big Hawaii
• Family — Merilee
• Starsky & Hutch — Joey Carston
• Police Woman
• ABC Afterschool Special — Beth
• Hallmark Hall of Fame — Margaret Ryder, Sheila, Martha

Appearances as themselves (1)

• The Oscars — Self