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.
39 movies · 20 shows
Broke
2025·7.1
The Witcher: Nightmare of the Wolf
2021·7.4
Margin Call
2011·6.9
Scream 4
2011·6.5
Hostile Makeover
2009·7.8
Battlestar Galactica: Razor
2007·7.2
Mrs. Harris
2006·5.8
Crazy Like a Fox
2004·6.5
The Making of ‘Sneakers’
2003·7.5
Dances with Wolves: The Creation of an Epic
2003·8.0
Nola
2003·6.8
The Locket
2002·5.2
Donnie Darko
2001·7.8
For All Time
2000·6.4
A Father's Choice
2000·5.2
Mumford
1999·6.5
Replacing Dad
1999·6.4
Behind the Mask
1999·5.5
You Can Thank Me Later
1998·5.8
Evidence of Blood
1998·6.6
12 Angry Men
1997·7.7
Two Voices
1997·5.6
Mariette in Ecstasy
1996·8.0
Independence Day
1996·6.9
Independence Day: The ID4 Invasion
1996·6.6
The Making of 'Independence Day'
1996·6.1
Woman Undone
1996·4.1
Blue Chips
1994·6.1
The American Clock
1993·5.7
Passion Fish
1992·7.0
Sneakers
1992·6.9
Grand Canyon
1991·6.4
The Making of 'Dances with Wolves'
1990·7.0
Dances with Wolves
1990·7.8
Tiger Warsaw
1988·5.5
Matewan
1987·7.3
Courage
1986·6.8
Garbo Talks
1984·6.3
Money on the Side
1982·4.4