Known For
Acting
Born
Apr 28, 1952
Place of Birth
Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania, USA
Credits
61 titles
Mary McDonnell
Biography
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 her performances 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 and 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.
Known For
Filmography
VisionQuest
The Boroughs
The Duchess
Twelve Dates 'Til Christmas
Delilah
Broke
Kathy Brandywine
The Fall of the House of Usher
Madeline Usher
The Witcher: Nightmare of the Wolf
Lady Zerbst (voice)
Rebel
Helen Peterson
Fargo
Ruby Goldfarb
Major Crimes
Captain Sharon Raydor
Margin Call
Mary Rogers
Scream 4
Kate Roberts
Hostile Makeover
Rose Smithsonian
Battlestar Galactica: Razor
President Laura Roslin
Mrs. Harris
Vivian Schulte
The Closer
Captain Sharon Raydor
Grey's Anatomy
Virginia Dixon
Crazy Like a Fox
Amy Banks
Battlestar Galactica
Laura Roslin
Veronica Mars
Jane
Battlestar Galactica
President Laura Roslin
The Making of ‘Sneakers’
Self
Dances with Wolves: The Creation of an Epic
Self
Nola
Margaret Langworthy
The Locket
Helen Staples
Donnie Darko
Rose Darko
For All Time
Laura Brown
A Father's Choice
Susan Shaw
Ryan Caulfield: Year One
Rachel Caulfield
Mumford
Althea Brockett
Replacing Dad
Linda Marsh
Behind the Mask
Mary Shushan
You Can Thank Me Later
Diane
Evidence of Blood
Dora Overton
12 Angry Men
Judge
Two Voices
Sybil Goldrich
Mariette in Ecstasy
Prioress
Independence Day
Marilyn Whitmore
Independence Day: The ID4 Invasion
Self
The Making of 'Independence Day'
Self
Woman Undone
Teri Hansen
High Society
Dott Emerson
Touched by an Angel
Sister Theodore Claire
ER
Eleanor Carter
Blue Chips
Jenny
The American Clock
Rose Baumler
Passion Fish
May-Alice Culhane
Sneakers
Liz
Grand Canyon
Claire
The Making of 'Dances with Wolves'
Herself
Dances with Wolves
Stands With A Fist