Mary Elizabeth Winstead Profile, Age, Family, Affairs, Biography & More

Mary Elizabeth Winstead Profile, Age, Family, Affairs, Biography & More

Mary Elizabeth Winstead is an American actress and singer. Mary Elizabeth Winstead’s first significant role was that of Jessica Bennett on the NBC soap opera Passions (1999–2000). She went on to appear in series such as Tru Calling (2004) and films including the superhero film Sky High (2005). She came to wider attention for her roles in the horror series Wolf Lake (2001–2002), the giant monster film Monster Island (2004), the supernatural horror film Final Destination 3 (2006), the slasher film Black Christmas (2006), and the exploitation horror film Death Proof (2007), the science fiction horror film The Thing (2011), the action thriller film Gemini Man (2019), and the superhero film Birds of Prey (2020).

Further success came with her roles as John McClane’s daughter Lucy Gennero-McClane in Live Free or Die Hard (2007) and Ramona Flowers in Scott Pilgrim vs. the World (2010). Her critically acclaimed performance as an alcoholic struggling with sobriety in the Sundance drama Smashed (2012) was followed by a series of roles in other well-received independent films, including The Beauty Inside (2012), The Spectacular Now (2013), Faults ( 2014), Alex of Venice (2014), and Swiss Army Man (2016). Winstead continued her Scream Queen roles in the sci-fi horror film The Thing (2011), as Mary Todd Lincoln in the fantasy horror film Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter (2012), and in the psychological horror thriller film 10 Cloverfield Lane (2016) .

She reprized her role as Lucy Gennero-McClane in A Good Day to Die Hard (2013) and returned to television with roles in the supernatural drama series The Returned (2015), the political satire science fiction comedy series BrainDead (2016), the period medical drama series Mercy Street (2016–17) and the black comedy crime drama anthology series Fargo (2017). Her other roles include the comedy drama All About Nina (2018), the action thriller film Gemini Man (2019), and as the Huntress in Birds of Prey (2020).

Since 2013, Winstead has performed as music duo Got a Girl with Dan the Automator.

In 2010, Winstead married filmmaker Riley Stearns, whom she had met at age eighteen on an ocean cruise. She starred in and produced Stearns’ debut feature film, Faults, in 2014. She announced their separation in May 2017 and their divorce was finalized later that year.

It was reported in October 2017 that she was in a relationship with Scottish actor Ewan McGregor, whom she had met on the set the Fargo television series. Their son, Laurie, was born on June 27, 2021. Winstead and McGregor married in April 2022.