Mary McDonnell
Mary McDonnell, a two-time
Oscar(r),-nominated actress, is well known for her performances on screen in
historical and modern roles. She also has a long list of roles both on stage
and screen. Mary Eileen McDonnell is a Pennsylvania-born actress. She was the
daughter of Eileen (Mundy) the Irish-American computer expert, and John
McDonnell. She was born in Ithaca, New York and graduated from Fredonia State
University of New York. Later, she attended drama school and was admitted to
the Long Wharf Theatre Company in East Coast. A decade later she was offered
her first film role, in Kevin Costner's Dances with Wolves (1990), playing
"Stands with a Fist" as a white woman born to the Sioux Indians. The
first time she received an Academy Award nomination was for the role.
McDonnell's film credits include Lawrence Kasdan's Grand Canyon (1991)
& Mumford (1999), opposite veteran actors such as Robert Redford,
Sidney Poitier and Ben Kingsley; Roland Emmerich’s Independence Day (1996)
(starring Will Smith); the highly acclaimed art house hit Donnie Darko
(192001); and Margin Call (2011). This won her the Robert Altman Awards at the
2012 Independent Spirit Awards. McDonnell was a regular on the Syfy Network's
award winning series Battlestar Galactica (2004), which was highly praised for
her performance as the President Laura Roslin. The role she played as a
frequent guest host on the popular television show ER (1994) was rewarded with
an Emmy nomination. The wildly popular TNT drama Major Crimes (2012) stars her
as Captain Sharon Raydor. It is McDonnell's second season and she received a
nomination for a Primetime Emmy(r). The character she played as a paraplegic
star of soap operas in John Sayles' critically acclaimed film Passion Fish
(1992) earned her an Best Actress Academy Award (r) nomination and a Golden
Globe nod.
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