Mary McDonnell
Mary McDonnell is an actress who has
been nominated for two Oscars(r). She is famous for her portrayals of
characters in period and contemporary screen roles. Mary Eileen McDonnell was
the daughter of John McDonnell (a computer consultant) and Eileen (Mundy) she
was the daughter of a Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania native. Born in Ithaca, New
York, she graduated from the State University of New York (SUNY) at Fredonia.
Then, she went to the drama school and was accepted to the Long Wharf Theatre
Company in East Coast. Her first film role came in Dances with Wolves (1990) by
Kevin Costner. She played the character "Stands with a Fist" an
Indian Sioux-raised white woman. The first time she received an Academy Award
nomination was for the character. McDonnell's film credits include the Lawrence
Kasdan films Grand Canyon (1991) and Mumford (1999) (opposite other well-known
actors like Robert Redford, Sidney Poitier and Ben Kingsley); Roland Emmerich's
Independence Day (1996) (starring Will Smith); acclaimed art house cult-hit
Donnie Darko (2001); and Margin Call (2011) (opposite Kevin Spacey), which
earned her the Robert Altman Award at the 2012 Independent Spirit Awards.
McDonnell was President Laura Roslin in the critically popular series
Battlestar Galactica (2004) on Syfy. McDonnell was a star in four seasons.
McDonnell was nominated for an Emmy for her regular guest appearance in the
television show ER (1994). She stars as Captain Sharon Raydor on the TNT's top
drama show Major Crimes (2012), the follow-up to The Closer (2005), in which
McDonnell took on the role for the first time and for which she earned an
Emmy(r) nomination for Primetime. Emmy(r) nomination. Her performance as a
paraplegic star of soap opera in John Sayles' critically acclaimed film Passion
Fish (1992) earned her an Best Actress Academy Award (r) nomination as well as
an Academy Award nomination. Golden Globe nod.
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