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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