Spotted in Providence: Ted Danson and Mary Steenburgen at Bellini

Spotted in Providence: Ted Danson and Mary Steenburgen at Bellini

Award-winning actors Ted Danson and Mary Steenburgen are in Providence for a big night.

On Monday evening, they will be honored with the 2023 Pell Award for Lifetime Achievement in the Arts. 

GoLocal News Editor Kate Nagle caught up with them at Bellini at The Beatrice Hotel in downtown Providence on Monday afternoon. 

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Steenburgen is an Academy Award-winning actress who has appeared in countless roles on the big and small screens. A company member of New York’s Atlantic Theater Company, she is known for her Oscar and Golden Globe-winning work in Melvin and Howard in addition roles in What’s Eating Gilbert Grape?, Step Brothers, and television shows such as Justified, Orange is the New Black, and HBO’s Togetherness and Curb Your Enthusiasm.

Upcoming, Steenburgen will star in Focus Features Book Club 2: The Next Chapter opposite Diane Keaton, Jane Fonda, and Candice Bergen.

Danson is a Golden Globe and Emmy Award-winning actor known for an array of exceptional performances, most memorably for his portrayal of Boston bartender Sam Malone on NBC’s multi-award-winning and iconic comedy Cheers, which ran for 11 seasons and won three Emmys for Best Comedy Series, as well as the acclaimed NBC comedy The Good Place, for which he was nominated for his 14th Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actor and received a Critics’ Choice Award for his role as Michael. 

In addition to his acting and producing credits, Danson is an environmental activist, co-founding the American Oceans Campaign (AOC) in 1987 to alert Americans to the life-threatening hazards created by oil spills, offshore development, toxic wastes, sewage pollution, and other ocean abuses. The AOC merged with Oceana in 2001. Oceana works to show citizens how they can participate in protecting and restoring marine resources, and to show Congress that Americans are concerned with these issues. 

“Ted and Mary graciously spent some time to chat with diners, and spoke about how much they were enjoying staying at The Beatrice,” said Nagle.