Mary McDonnell
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.
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| Known For | Acting |
|---|---|
| Most Rating | 3.6932 |
| Birthday | 1952-04-28 |
| Place of Birth | Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania, USA |
| Also Known As | Mary Eileen McDonnell, |
2001
Donnie Darko
7.8/13481
After narrowly escaping a bizarre accident, a troubled teenager is plagued by visions of a large bunny rabbit that manipulates him to commit a series...
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Donnie Darko
1990
Dances with Wolves
7.846/4719
Wounded Civil War soldier John Dunbar tries to commit suicide—and becomes a hero instead. As a reward, he's assigned to his dream post, a remote junct...
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Dances with Wolves
1996
Independence Day
6.916/10510
Strange phenomena surface around the globe. The skies ignite. Terror races through the world's major cities. As these extraordinary events unfold, it...
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Independence Day
1992
Sneakers
6.906/1062
When shadowy U.S. intelligence agents blackmail a reformed computer hacker and his eccentric team of security experts into stealing a code-breaking 'b...
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Sneakers
1999
Mumford
6.518/109
When a would-be psychologist, curiously named Dr. Mumford, comes to the idyllic town of the same name and offers his talent for listening and a disarm...
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Mumford
1987
Matewan
7.384/134
Filmed in the coal country of West Virginia, "Matewan" celebrates labor organizing in the context of a 1920s work stoppage. Union organizer, Joe Keneh...
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Matewan
1984
Garbo Talks
6.3/33
When New York accountant Gilbert Rolfe finds out his mother has a brain tumor, he is devastated. His incorrigible mother, Estelle, has one last wish:...
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Garbo Talks
1991
Grand Canyon
6.4/214
Grand Canyon revolved around six residents from different backgrounds whose lives intertwine in modern-day Los Angeles. At the center of the film is t...
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Grand Canyon
2011
Scream 4
6.483/4210
Fifteen years after the original Woodsboro murders, Sidney Prescott returns home to promote her new book about surviving trauma, only for a new Ghostf...
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Scream 4
1992
Passion Fish
6.968/63
After an accident leaves her a paraplegic, a former soap opera star struggles to recover both emotionally and mentally, until she meets her newest nur...
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Passion Fish
2011
Margin Call
6.864/2107
Set in the high-stakes world of the financial industry, involving the key players at an investment firm during one perilous 24-hour period in the earl...
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Margin Call
1982
Money on the Side
4.444/9
Three middle-class housewives who are having money problems join a prostitution ring.
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Money on the Side
2007
Battlestar Galactica: Razor
7.199/468
The history and adventures of the Battlestar Pegasus, from shortly before the Cylon invasion to shortly after Lee Adama is made commander. The story i...
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Battlestar Galactica: Razor
1994
Blue Chips
6.132/209
Pete Bell, a college basketball coach is under a lot of pressure. His team isn't winning and he cannot attract new players. The stars of the future ar...
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Blue Chips
1988
Tiger Warsaw
5.5/28
Chuck brought sorrow to his family when he shot his father who is now a semi-invalid. After 15 years of self destruction, he returns home to seek forg...
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Tiger Warsaw
1986
Courage
6.75/4
A mother in Queens, New York, outraged when she discovers that her son is a drug addict, becomes an undercover agent for the DEA to clean up the drug...
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Courage
2000
For All Time
6.382/17
A man facing middle-age and a failing marriage finds a time slip that can take him back to the end of the nineteenth century.
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For All Time
1997
Two Voices
5.6/5
When two women have breast implants for contrasting reasons, they both suffer from frightening side effects. They decide to unite and fight the drug c...
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Two Voices
2000
A Father's Choice
5.2/31
The fast-paced city life of two sisters is turned upside down when they are sent to live in the country with their father after their mother is killed...
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A Father's Choice
1993
The American Clock
5.667/6
Moe, Rose and Lee Baumler are members of an upper class family who find the world completely changed when they lose everything in the stock market cra...
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The American Clock
1999
Replacing Dad
6.429/7
Linda and George live in a small town. He is the school principal. They are about to celebrate their 16th anniversary. She catches him with her daught...
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Replacing Dad
2025
Broke
7.098/56
A bronc rider in denial about his fading rodeo career battles against brain injury and a sudden blizzard while reflecting on how it became so difficul...
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Broke
1996
Woman Undone
4.1/8
When Terri Hansen (Mary McDonnell) emerges from a fiery car crash as a widow, the local sheriff at first believes her account of the accident. But the...
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Woman Undone
1998
Evidence of Blood
6.6/16
When a brilliant crime writer investigates a 40-year-old murder, he confronts a small town's worst fears.
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Evidence of Blood
2006
Mrs. Harris
5.85/20
Based on the sensational 1980s media event, famed cardiologist Herman Tarnower meets a particularly brutal end at the hands of his jilted lover, Jean...
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Mrs. Harris
2003
The Making of ‘Sneakers’
7.5/2
Behind-the-scenes documentary on the making of ‘Sneakers’ (1992).
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The Making of ‘Sneakers’
1999
Behind the Mask
5.5/6
Dr. Bob Shushan is an overworked and absent father who runs a centre for the mentally and physically challenged. When Shushan suffers a heart attack,...
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Behind the Mask
1997
12 Angry Men
7.7/450
During the trial of a man accused of his father's murder, a lone juror takes a stand against the guilty verdict handed down by the others as a result...
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12 Angry Men
1998
You Can Thank Me Later
5.75/6
Shirley Cooperberg heads a Montreal Jewish family. During her husband's operation, her brood arrives at the hospital — failed writer Eli, neurotic Sus...
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You Can Thank Me Later
1996
Mariette in Ecstasy
8/1
In this forceful study of religious passion an extraordinary spiritual experience is placed in the center of a deftly evoked natural world, namely, ru...
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Mariette in Ecstasy
2003
Nola
6.792/12
An urban fairy tale-romantic comedy, in which Nola, an aspiring songwriter, leaves an abusive Kansas home and journeys to New York to find her biologi...
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Nola
2004
Crazy Like a Fox
6.5/2
This is the story of Nat Banks, an 8th generation Virginian gentleman farmer living in the past, who loses his family farm, Greenwood, to a pair of la...
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Crazy Like a Fox
1996
Independence Day: The ID4 Invasion
6.615/13
A "mockumentary" of the alien invasion during Independence Day. Barry Nolan hosts the programme, the first 9 minutes of which are a spoof news report...
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Independence Day: The ID4 Invasion
1996
The Making of 'Independence Day'
6.111/9
We take a look at various fields of development for the motion picture, Independence Day (1996). Jeff Goldblum is our guide through 'Area ID4' (a rip-...
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The Making of 'Independence Day'
2003
Dances with Wolves: The Creation of an Epic
8/4
A documentary of the making of Dances with Wolves told through interviews with cast and crew. It describes the financial and production details, scout...
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Dances with Wolves: The Creation of an Epic
1990
The Making of 'Dances with Wolves'
7/3
A documentary about the making of director Kevin Costner's Academy Award-winning directorial debut, Dances With Wolves.
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The Making of 'Dances with Wolves'
2021
The Witcher: Nightmare of the Wolf
7.422/1104
Escaping from poverty to become a witcher, Vesemir slays monsters for coin and glory, but when a new menace rises, he must face the demons of his past...
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The Witcher: Nightmare of the Wolf
2002
The Locket
5.208/12
A bereaved man takes a job at a health care center, where he befriends an elderly and embittered woman - and as time passes, he becomes obsessed with...
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The Locket
2009
Hostile Makeover
7.8/3
Lacey Smithsonian is a stylish journalist who works as a television reporter. When interviewing a prestigious fashion designer Amanda Manville, it con...
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Hostile Makeover
One Second After
0/0
In a small North Carolina town, a former military officer must protect his family and community after an electromagnetic pulse disables all technology...
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