Mary McDonnell

Mary McDonnell (73)

1952-04-28 | Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania, USA

Mary Eileen McDonnell (born April 28, 1952) is an American film, stage, and television actress. She received Academy Award nominations for her roles as Stands With A Fist in Dances With Wolves and May-Alice Culhane in Passion Fish. McDonnell is well known for performing as President Laura Roslin in Battlestar Galactica, First Lady Marilyn Whitmore in Independence Day, and Rose in Donnie Darko. She was featured as Captain Sharon Raydor during seasons 5–7 of the TNT series The Closer. She starred as Commander Sharon Raydor in the spin-off series Major Crimes on the same network. In 2023, she played Madeleine Usher in the miniseries The Fall of the House of Usher on Netflix. Description above from the Wikipedia article Mary McDonnell, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

On Movies

  • Broke
  • The Witcher: Nightmare of the Wolf
  • Margin Call
  • Scream 4
  • Hostile Makeover
  • Battlestar Galactica: Razor
  • Mrs. Harris
  • Crazy Like a Fox
  • Nola
  • The Locket
  • Donnie Darko
  • For All Time
  • A Father's Choice
  • Mumford
  • Replacing Dad
  • Behind the Mask
  • You Can Thank Me Later
  • Evidence of Blood
  • 12 Angry Men
  • Two Voices
  • Mariette in Ecstasy
  • Independence Day: The ID4 Invasion
  • Independence Day
  • Woman Undone
  • Blue Chips
  • The American Clock
  • Passion Fish
  • Sneakers
  • Grand Canyon
  • Dances with Wolves
  • Tiger Warsaw
  • Matewan
  • Courage
  • Garbo Talks
  • Money on the Side

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