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Biography

Early life

Winningham was born in Phoenix, Arizona and raised in Northridge, California, with three brothers and one sister. Her father was the Chairman of the Department of Physical Education at California State University, Northridge (CSUN) and her mother was an English teacher and college counselor at a local high school. She credits her first interest in acting to seeing an interview with Kym Karath (who played "Gretl" in The Sound of Music) on Art Linkletter's television show House Party when she was five or six years old. Nickname: Valley of the Sun Location in Maricopa County and the state of Arizona Coordinates: Country United States State Arizona Counties Maricopa Incorporated February 25, 1881 Mayor Phil Gordon (D) Area    - City 1,230. ... It has been suggested that Arizona Governors Mansion be merged into this article or section. ... Northridge is a community in the City of Los Angeles. ... California State University, Northridge (also known as CSUN, Cal State Northridge, or C-Sun) is a public university in the San Fernando Valley, within the city limits of Los Angeles, California, USA. Part of the California State University system, CSUN was founded in 1958 as San Fernando Valley State College... Kimberly Karath (born 4 August 1958 in Los Angeles, California, USA) is an American actress. ... The Sound of Music is a Broadway musical based on the book The Story of the Von Trapp Family Singers by Maria von Trapp. ... Art Linkletter caricature by Sam Berman for NBCs 1947 promotion book Art Linkletter (born Gordon Arthur Kelly on July 17, 1912) was the host of two of the longest-running shows in broadcast history: House Party, which ran on CBS radio and television for 25 years, and People Are... House Party was an American daytime TV variety/talk show which aired on CBS-TV from September 1952 until 1969. ...

Winningham attended local primary schools where her favorite activities included drama and playing the guitar. She took the extended drama option in 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 a high school with a renowned drama department. 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. Kevin Spacey (born Kevin Spacey Fowler[1] on July 26, 1959) is a two-time Academy Award winning American actor (film and stage) and director. ...

Career

Winningham began her entertaining career as a struggling singer-songwriter. In 1976 she got her break singing the John Lennon-Paul McCartney composition "Here, There, and Everywhere" on "The Gong Show." Though Winningham received no record contracts as result of the appearance, she was signed to an acting contract by Hollywood agent Meyer Mishkin, and received her Screen Actor's Guild card for doing three lines in an episode of James at 15. That year she was offered a role on Young Pioneers and Young Pioneers Christmas, pilots for the short-lived 1978 pioneer drama The Young Pioneers. Though the series ended with just three episodes being broadcast, a number of television projects followed, including parts on Police Woman in 1978 and Starsky and Hutch in 1979. 1976 (MCMLXXVI) was a leap year starting on Thursday. ... John Winston Ono Lennon, MBE (October 9, 1940 – December 8, 1980), (born John Winston Lennon, known as John Ono Lennon) was an iconic English 20th century rock and roll songwriter and singer, best known as the founding member of The Beatles. ... Sir James Paul McCartney, MBE (born 18 June 1942, Liverpool) is an English singer and songwriter. ... The Gong Show was a television variety show spoof that was broadcast on NBC and in first-run syndication in the United States from 1976 until 1980. ... ... The Screen Actors Guild (SAG) is the labor union representing film actors in the United States. ... James at 15 was a United States television drama that aired on NBC in the 1977-1978 season. ... 1978 (MCMLXXVIII) was a common year starting on Sunday. ... Police Woman was an American television police drama starring Angie Dickinson that ran from 1974 to 1978 on NBC. It is considered the first successful primetime drama to feature a female lead, and a female as a police officer. ... 1978 (MCMLXXVIII) was a common year starting on Sunday. ... For the film, see Starsky & Hutch (film). ... For the Smashing Pumpkins song, see 1979 (song). ...

In 1980 Winningham won the Emmy Award for Best Supporting Actress In A Miniseries Or A Movie for her role in the critically acclaimed Amber Waves, a TV movie about a rough farmer (Dennis Weaver) who finds he is dying of cancer. In that year she also broke into film in One Trick Pony, starring Paul Simon. In 1983 Winningham was nominated for a Canadian Genie Award for her work in the futuristic 1981 drama Threshold, and appeared in the epic miniseries The Thorn Birds. In 1984 she starred as Helen Keller in Helen Keller: The Miracle Continues. 1980 (MCMLXXX) was a leap year starting on Tuesday. ... An Emmy Award. ... A television movie (also TV movie, TV-movie, made-for-TV movie, etc. ... McCloud featuring Dennis Weaver William Dennis Weaver (June 4, 1924 â€“ February 24, 2006) was an American television actor, best known for his roles as sidekick Chester Goode from 1955 to 1964 on TVs first adult Western Gunsmoke, as Marshal Sam McCloud on the NBC police drama McCloud, which ran... Cancer is a class of diseases or disorders characterized by uncontrolled division of cells and the ability of these cells to invade other tissues, either by direct growth into adjacent tissue through invasion or by implantation into distant sites by metastasis. ... One Trick Pony is a 1980 movie starring Paul Simon. ... Paul Frederic Simon (born October 13, 1941) is an American singer-songwriter and guitarist, half of the folk-singing duo Simon and Garfunkel who continues a successful solo career. ... 1983 (MCMLXXXIII) was a common year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar. ... The Genie Awards are given out to recognize the best of Canadian films and television, by the Academy of Canadian Cinema and Television. ... 1981 (MCMLXXXI) was a common year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar. ... The Thorn Birds is a 1977 best-selling novel by Colleen McCullough, an Australian author. ... 1984 (MCMLXXXIV) was a leap year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Helen Adams Keller (June 27, 1880 – June 1, 1968) was a deafblind American author, activist and lecturer. ...

Winningham achieved greater fame in 1985's St. Elmo's Fire as one of the original "brat pack" alumni. Despite the film's success, she refused to cash in on her teen idol status, and returned to television in the Hallmark Hall of Fame movie, Love Is Never Silent, for which she received an Emmy nomination. Winningham finished the 80s with two Hollywood films, the nuclear disaster drama Miracle Mile (1988), for which she received an 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. 1985 (MCMLXXXV) was a common year starting on Tuesday of the Gregorian calendar. ... St. ... The Brat Pack was a group of young actors and actresses that became famous in the 1980s and frequently appeared in films together. ... Hallmark Hall of Fame is the most-honored program in the history of American television. ... Miracle Mile is a 1988 thriller film directed by Steve de Jarnatt and starring Anthony Edwards and Mare Winningham. ... 1988 (MCMLXXXVIII) was a leap year starting on Friday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Founded in 1984, the Independent Spirit Awards were originally known as the FINDIE (Friends of Independents) Awards and presented winners with Plexiglas pyramids containing suspended shoestrings representing the paltry budgets of independent films. ... 1989 (MCMLXXXIX) was a common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Thomas Tom Jeffrey Hanks (born July 9, 1956) is a two-time Academy Award-winning American actor, voice-over artist and movie producer who starred in family-friendly and screwball comedies before achieving notable success as a dramatic actor. ... Turner & Hooch is a 1989 comedy film starring Tom Hanks, Mare Winningham, Craig T. Nelson, and Reginald VelJohnson. ... 1989 (MCMLXXXIX) was a common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Flag Seal Nickname: City of Angels Location Location within Los Angeles County in the state of California Coordinates , Government State County California Los Angeles County Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa (D) Geographical characteristics Area     City 1,290. ... Hurlyburly (1984) is a play written by David Rabe. ... Sean Justin Penn (born August 17, 1960) is an Academy Award-winning American film actor & director. ... Danny Aiello Daniel Louis Aiello, Jr. ...

The early 90s brought a number of forgettable television projects as Winningham took a break to be with her husband, William Mapel, and five children. She returned to film for 1994's all-star Wyatt Earp and the family drama The War, both starring Kevin Costner. 1994 (MCMXCIV) was a common year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar, and was designated as the International Year of the Family and the International Year of the Sport and the Olympic Ideal by United Nations. ... Wyatt Earp is a 1994 Western film, written by Dan Gordon and Lawrence Kasdan and directed by Kasdan. ... Kevin Costner Kevin Michael Costner (born January 18, 1955) is an Oscar winning American film actor and director who has often produced his own films. ...

1995 brought Georgia, a thoughtful character study of two sisters (Winningham and Jennifer Jason Leigh), which earned Winningham Golden Globe Screen Actors Guild Award and Academy Award nominations. Two years later, she starred opposite Gary Sinise in George Wallace, for which she garnered another Golden Globe Award nomination, and won an Emmy Award. 1995 (MCMXCV) was a common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. ... This article or section does not cite its references or sources. ... The Golden Globe Awards are American awards for motion pictures and television programs, given out each year during a formal dinner. ... Wikipedia does not have an article with this exact name. ... The references in this article would be clearer with a different and/or consistent style of citation, footnoting or external linking. ... Gary Alan Sinise (born March 17, 1955) is an Emmy winning American actor and film director. ... An Emmy Award. ...

Since then she made acclaimed appearances on the series ER and Law and Order: SVU, as well as appearances in the 2001 television project Sally Hemmings, opposite Sam Neill and the short-lived David E. Kelley series The Brotherhood of Poland, New Hampshire. Winningham's most recent project is the independent film Dandelion, which was a staple of film festivals worldwide between 2003 and 2004 and is set for a limited American release in October of 2005. ER is a long-running American serial medical drama created by novelist Michael Crichton and set primarily in the emergency room of fictional County General Hospital in Chicago, Illinois. ... This article is about the year 2001. ... Sam Neill (born Nigel John Dermot Neill), OBE (born 14 September 1947) is a New Zealand film and television actor, and owner of the Two Paddocks winery in Central Otago. ... To meet Wikipedias quality standards, this article or section may require cleanup. ... The Brotherhood of Poland, New Hampshire was a short-lived American television series starring Randy Quaid and Mare Winningham and written by David E. Kelley. ... A film festival is a mostly annual festival showcasing films, usually of a recent date, sometimes with a focus on a specific genre (e. ... 2003 (MMIII) was a common year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar. ... 2004 (MMIV) was a leap year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar. ... 2005 (MMV) was a common year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar. ...

Winningham has also recorded two albums, What Might Be (1992) on the Bay Cities label, and Lonesomers (1998), on the Razor and Tie label. She also sings on the soundtrack of Georgia. In 2006 Winningham voiced the audio version of Stephen King's Lisey's Story.

Personal life

Though born into the Roman Catholic religion, Winningham felt her spiritual life was lacking, and, based on a recommendation from a friend, in November 2001 she signed up for a class given by Rabbi Neal Wienberg at the University of Judaism in Los Angeles, California. On March 3, 2003 she converted to Judaism, and became a member of two Conservative synagogues, Temple Beth Am in Los Angeles, and Temple Knesset Israel in Hollywood, California. This article is about the year 2001. ... For the town in Italy, see Rabbi, Italy Rabbi (Sephardic Hebrew רִבִּי ribbÄ«; Ashkenazi Hebrew רֶבִּי rebbÄ« or rebbÉ™; and modern Israeli רַבִּי rabbÄ«) in Judaism, means teacher, or more literally great one. The word Rabbi is derived from the Hebrew root-word RaV, which in biblical Hebrew means great or distinguished (in... The University of Judaism, informally known as the UJ, is a university with Jewish undergraduate, graduate, rabbinic, cantorial, and continuing education studies. ... Nickname: City of Angels Location within Los Angeles County in the state of California Coordinates: State California County Los Angeles County Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa Area    - City 1,290. ... 2003 (MMIII) was a common year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Judaism is the religion of the Jewish people. ... A synagogue (from Greek synagoge place of assembly literally meeting, assembly,) is a Jewish house of prayer and study. ... Greetings from Hollywood Hollywood is a district of the city of Los Angeles, California, U.S.A., that extends from Vermont Avenue on the east to just beyond Laurel Canyon Boulevard above Sunset and Crescent Heights Boulevards on the west; the north to south boundary east of La Brea Avenue...

Winningham was married to the actor A Martinez; they divorced in 1981. In 1982 she married William Mapel; they are now divorced. Winningham has five children, actor Riley Mapel (1981-2005), Patrick and Jack Mapel (born 1985), Happy Atticus Mapel (born 1988), and Calla Louise Mapel (born 1987). Riley committed suicide August 14, 2005. A. Martinez (born Adolph Larrue Martinez, September 27, 1948 in Glendale, California) is an American Mexican heritage. ... August 14 is the 226th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (227th in leap years), with 139 days remaining. ... 2005 (MMV) was a common year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar. ...

Awards

Academy Awards

Nominated:

• Best Supporting Actress - Georgia, 1995

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Emmy Awards

Won:

• Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Miniseries or Movie - Amber Waves, 1980
• Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Miniseries or Movie - George Wallace, 1998

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• Outstanding Guest Actress in a Drama Series - Law & Order: Special Victims Unit, 2004
• Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Miniseries or Movie - The Boys Next Door, 1996
• Outstanding Actress in a Miniseries or Movie - Love Is Never Silent, 1985

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Golden Globes

Nominated:

• Best Supporting Actress in a Motion Picture - Georgia, 1995
• Best Supporting Actress in a TV Miniseries or Movie - George Wallace, 1997

Independent Spirit Awards

Won:

• Best Supporting Actress - Miracle Mile, 1989

Miracle Mile is a 1988 thriller film directed by Steve de Jarnatt and starring Anthony Edwards and Mare Winningham. ...

Screen Actors Guild Awards

Nominated:

• Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Supporting Role - Georgia, 1995

External links

• Mare Winningham at the Internet Movie Database
• Mare Winningham at the Notable Names Database
• Mare Winningham at the TCM Movie Database
• Mare Winningham at Yahoo! Movies
• Actress-singer Mare Winningham an unlikely Jewish soul