Mary Birdsong

What I admire about Mary Birdsong is her refusal to be boxed in. Singer, stage actor, voice artist, comedian, screen actor - she moves between worlds most performers never touch. Her 2007 Theatre World Award signals genuine craft, yet I find her most compelling as the kind of supporting presence who quietly anchors a scene, whether in the chaos of Reno 911! or the cold precision of Succession. She has never been packaged as a marquee star, and I think that frees her to simply be good. To me she is a working actor's actor, and that is high praise.

Name (English)

Mary Birdsong

Name (Japanese)

メアリー・バードソング

Reading

めありー・ばーどそんぐ

Born

April 18, 1968 (age 58)

Zodiac / Chinese zodiac

Aries / Monkey

Origin

Long Beach Island, New Jersey, United States

Occupation

singer / stage actor / television actor / voice actor / film actor

High school

Southern Regional High School

Awards & achievements

• 2007 Theatre World Award

• Official sitehttps://www.marybirdsong.com/
• Wikipedia (English)https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mary%20Birdsong
• Wikidatahttps://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q3296147

Tags

• New Jersey
• singer
• stage actor
• television actor

Last updated

2026-06-21

Facts are limited to publicly available information up to 2024; non-public or unconfirmed items are omitted. English text is machine-assisted (facts translated by Sonnet, "My Take" written by Opus 4.8). The Japanese page is the source of record.