
Acting
Born April 28, 1952 · Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania, USA
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 series The Closer and starred as Commander Sharon Raydor in the spin-off series Major Crimes on the same network. In 2023, she played Madeleine Usher in the miniseries The Fall of the House of Usher on Netflix. Description above from the Wikipedia article Mary McDonnell, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

Broke
2025

The Witcher: Nightmare of the Wolf
2021

Margin Call
2011

Scream 4
2011

Hostile Makeover
2009

Battlestar Galactica: Razor
2007

Mrs. Harris
2006

Crazy Like a Fox
2004

The Making of ‘Sneakers’
2003

Dances with Wolves: The Creation of an Epic
2003

Nola
2003

The Locket
2002

Donnie Darko
2001

For All Time
2000

A Father's Choice
2000

Mumford
1999

Replacing Dad
1999

Behind the Mask
1999

You Can Thank Me Later
1998

Evidence of Blood
1998

12 Angry Men
1997

Two Voices
1997
Mariette in Ecstasy
1996

Independence Day: The ID4 Invasion
1996

The Making of 'Independence Day'
1996

Independence Day
1996

Woman Undone
1996

Blue Chips
1994

The American Clock
1993

Passion Fish
1992

Sneakers
1992

Grand Canyon
1991

The Making of 'Dances with Wolves'
1990

Dances with Wolves
1990

Tiger Warsaw
1988

Matewan
1987

Courage
1986

Garbo Talks
1984

Money on the Side
1982