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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