Personal Info
Known For
Acting
Birthdate
1952-04-28 (Age: 74)
Place of Birth
Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania, USA
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.
Filmography (39)
Broke
2025
The Witcher: Nightmare of the Wolf
2021
Margin Call
2011
Scream 4
2011
Hostile Makeover
2009
Battlestar Galactica: Razor
2007
Mrs. Harris
2006
Crazy Like a Fox
2004
The Making of ‘Sneakers’
2003
Dances with Wolves: The Creation of an Epic
2003
Nola
2003
The Locket
2002
Donnie Darko
2001
For All Time
2000
