Biography
Mary McDonnell
Acting
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 serie…
Career works
60
Movies
40
Series
20
Career average
6.9/10
Birth date
04/28/1952
Place of birth
Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania, USA
Filmography highlights
Movies
Broke
2025 · 7.0
The Witcher: Nightmare of the Wolf
2021 · 7.4
Margin Call
2011 · 6.9
Scream 4
2011 · 6.5
Hostile Makeover
2009 · 7.8
Battlestar Galactica: Razor
2007 · 7.2
Mrs. Harris
2006 · 5.8
Crazy Like a Fox
2004 · 6.5
The Making of ‘Sneakers’
2003 · 7.5
Dances with Wolves: The Creation of an Epic
2003 · 8.0
Nola
2003 · 6.8
The Locket
2002 · 5.2
Donnie Darko
2001 · 7.8
For All Time
2000 · 6.4
A Father's Choice
2000 · 5.2
Series
VisionQuest
2026
Twelve Dates 'Til Christmas
2025 · 8.3
The Fall of the House of Usher
2023 · 7.6
Rebel
2021 · 7.2
Fargo
2014 · 8.3
Major Crimes
2012 · 7.4
The Closer
2005 · 7.9
Grey's Anatomy
2005 · 8.2
Battlestar Galactica
2004 · 8.2
Veronica Mars
2004 · 7.8
Battlestar Galactica
2003 · 8.2
Ryan Caulfield: Year One
1999 · 6.0
High Society
1995 · 8.0
Touched by an Angel
1994 · 7.2
ER
1994 · 7.8