Acting
Mary McDonnell
Also Known As: Mary Eileen McDonnell
Birth Date
April 28, 1952
(74 years old)
Place of Birth
Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania, USA
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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.
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Grey's Anatomy
Virginia Dixon
2005 • 3 episodes
The Closer
Sharon Raydor
2005 • 25 episodes
Golden Globe Awards
Self
1944 • 2 episodes
Fargo
Ruby Goldfarb
2014 • 4 episodes
ER
Eleanor Carter
1994 • 5 episodes
Battlestar Galactica
Laura Roslin
2004 • 73 episodes
Veronica Mars
Jane
2004 • 1 episode
Touched by an Angel
Sister Theodore Claire
1994 • 1 episode
American Experience
Narrator (voice)
1988 • 1 episode
Major Crimes
Captain Sharon Raydor
2012 • 105 episodes
The Oscars
Self
1953 • 1 episode
The Boroughs
The Duchess
2026 • 1 episode
Donnie Darko
Rose Darko
2001
Independence Day
Marilyn Whitmore
1996
The Fall of the House of Usher
Madeline Usher
2023 • 8 episodes
Dances with Wolves
Stands With A Fist
1990
Scream 4
Kate Roberts
2011
Battlestar Galactica
President Laura Roslin
2003 • 2 episodes
Sneakers
Liz
1992
Margin Call
Mary Rogers
2011