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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