Actor
Mary McDonnell
April 28, 1952 · Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania, USA
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.
Notable work
7.8Donnie Darko (2001)
as Rose Darko
8.2Grey's Anatomy (2005)
as Virginia Dixon
6.9Independence Day (1996)
as Marilyn Whitmore
7.8Dances with Wolves (1990)
as Stands With A Fist
6.5Scream 4 (2011)
as Kate Roberts
8.3Fargo (2014)
as Ruby Goldfarb
6.9Margin Call (2011)
as Mary Rogers
8.2Battlestar Galactica (2004)
as Laura Roslin
7.4The Witcher: Nightmare of the Wolf (2021)
as Lady Zerbst (voice)
6.9Sneakers (1992)
as Liz
8.2Battlestar Galactica (2003)
as President Laura Roslin
7.8ER (1994)
as Eleanor Carter
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