Mary McDonnell

Personal Info

Know For

Acting

Gender

Female

Birthday

1952-04-28 (73 years old)

Place of Birth

Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania, USA

Mary McDonnell

Biography

Mary Eileen McDonnell (born April 28, 1952) is an American film, stage, and television actress. She received an Academy Award nomination for her role as Stands With A Fist in Dances with Wolves, and she is also very well known for her performance as President Laura Roslin in Battlestar Galactica, the President's wife in Independence Day, and for her starring role in Donnie Darko as the title character's mother. Description above from the Wikipedia article Mary McDonnell, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

Acting

2001

Donnie Darko

as Rose Darko

1990

Dances with Wolves

as Stands With A Fist

1996

Independence Day

as Marilyn Whitmore

1992

Sneakers

as Liz

1999

Mumford

as Althea Brockett

1987

Matewan

as Elma Radnor

1984

Garbo Talks

as Lady Capulet

1991

Grand Canyon

as Claire

2011

Scream 4

as Kate Roberts

1992

Passion Fish

as May-Alice Culhane

2011

Margin Call

as Mary Rogers

1982

2007

Battlestar Galactica: Razor

as President Laura Roslin

1994

Blue Chips

as Jenny

1988

Tiger Warsaw

as Paula Warsaw

1986

Courage

as Gabriella Estrada

2000

For All Time

as Laura Brown

1997

Two Voices

as Sybil Goldrich

2000

A Father's Choice

as Susan Shaw

1993

The American Clock

as Rose Baumler

1999

Replacing Dad

as Linda Marsh

2025

Broke

as Kathy Brandywine

1996

Woman Undone

as Teri Hansen

1998

Evidence of Blood

as Dora Overton

2006

Mrs. Harris

as Vivian Schulte

1999

Behind the Mask

as Mary Shushan

1997

12 Angry Men

as Judge

1996

2003

Nola

as Margaret Langworthy

2004

Crazy Like a Fox

as Amy Banks

2014

And the Oscar Goes To...

as Self (archive footage)

2021

2002

The Locket

as Helen Staples

2009

Hostile Makeover

as Rose Smithsonian

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