Mary McDonnell

Mary McDonnell is an actress who has been nominated for two Oscars(r). She is popular for her portrayals as characters from both contemporary and period screen roles. Mary Eileen McDonnell is a Pennsylvania-born actress. She was the child of Eileen (Mundy) the American computer consultant from Ireland, and John McDonnell. She was raised in Ithaca and graduated from Fredonia State University of New York. She later attended drama school and was accepted into the well-known Long Wharf Theatre Company on the East Coast. In the following two decades she scored her first major film role in Kevin Costner's Dances with Wolves (1990) as "Stands with a Fist" who is a white woman who is raised by the Sioux Indians. 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 veteran actors such as Robert Redford, Sidney Poitier as well as Ben Kingsley); Roland Emmerich's Independence Day (1996) (starring Will Smith); acclaimed art house cult hit Donnie Darko (2001) as well as Margin Call (2011) (opposite Kevin Spacey), which was awarded the Robert Altman Award at the 2012 Independent Spirit Awards. McDonnell played a prominent role on the Syfy Network's award-winning series Battlestar Galactica (2004), in which she was praised for her portrayal of President Laura Roslin. McDonnell was nominated for an Emmy for her regular guest appearance on the tv series ER (1994). She is the Captain Sharon Raydor on the TNT's popular drama series Major Crimes (2012), the follow-up to The Closer (2005), in which McDonnell was the sole actor and earned an primetime Emmy(r) nomination. The character she played as an actress with paraplegia in soap opera in John Sayles' critically acclaimed film Passion Fish (1992) earned her a Best Actress Academy Award (r) nomination and an Academy Award nomination. Golden Globe nod.




 

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