Mare Winningham was born Mary Megan Winningham in 1959. She originally had ambitions to be a musician, and got her start performing on an episode of The Gong Show as a teen in 1976. The appearance led ...

Mare Winningham plays the matriarch of a family gathered around the Christmas tree to air some serious issues. "I thought, ‘Well, it’s called Cult of Love, so there has to be a leader," she says, "and ...

Question: I never had a favorite actress until I saw Mare Winningham in a movie made for TV. She had parents who were deaf and I remember Sid Caesar was in it. What is Winningham doing these days?

From left: Christopher Sears, Barbie Ferreira , Roberta Colindrez , Mare Winningham, Zachary Quinto, David Rasche, Shailene Woodley and Rebecca Henderson in Cult of Love. Joan Marcus The scrim that ...