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Mary McDonnell

Mary McDonnell

Acting · Born 1952-04-28 · Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania, USA

IMDb

12 titles in this catalog with a median Balasaur Score of 78. The 2000s rate best: median 84 across 3 titles. Mary McDonnell appears most often alongside Edward James Olmos (3 titles), Jamie Bamber (3).

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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