Mary McDonnell

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Mary McDonnell is a two-time Oscar®-nominated actress, who is known for her character portrayals in both period and present-day screen roles, as well as a long history of stage and film roles.Mary Eileen McDonnell was born on April 28, 1952 in Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania, to Eileen (Mundy) and John McDonnell, a computer consultant, both of Irish descent. Raised in Ithaca, New York, she graduated from the State University of New York (SUNY) at Fredonia. She later attended drama school and was accepted into the prestigious Long Wharf Theatre Company on the East Coast. Two decades later, she landed her breakthrough film role, in Kevin Costner's Danse avec les loups (1990), playing "Stands with a Fist", a white woman raised by the Sioux Indians. She earned her first Academy Award nomination for the role.McDonnell's film credits include the Lawrence Kasdan films Grand Canyon (1991) and Mumford (1999) (opposite such seasoned performers as Robert Redford, Sidney Poitier, and Ben Kingsley); Roland Emmerich's Independence Day: Le jour de la riposte (1996) (starring Will Smith); acclaimed art house cult-hit Donnie Darko (2001); and Margin Call (2011) (opposite Kevin Spacey), which earned her the Robert Altman Award at the 2012 Independent Spirit Awards. On the small screen, McDonnell starred in four seasons on the Syfy Network's award-winning series Battlestar Galactica (2004) in her critically praised performance as President Laura Roslin. She garnered an Emmy nomination for her recurring guest role on the television series Urgences (1994). She stars as Captain Sharon Raydor on the TNT's hit drama series Major Crimes (2012), the follow-up to The Closer: L.A.: Enquêtes prioritaires (2005), in which McDonnell originated the role and for which she earned a Primetime Emmy® nomination. She garnered a Best Actress Academy Award® nomination and a Golden Globe nomination for her portrayal of a paraplegic soap opera star in John Sayles's critically acclaimed film, Passion Fish (1992).McDonnell began her career in theatre and has starred in a wide variety of both Broadway and off-Broadway productions. She received an Obie Award for her performance in Emily Mann's Still Life and has starred in off-Broadway productions including the debut production of Sam Shepard's Pulitzer Prize-winning Buried Child (off-Broadway), John Patrick Shanley Savage in Limbo, John O'Keefe's All Night Long, Michael Cristofer's Black Angel, Kathleen Tolan's A Weekend Near Madison, Paula Cizmar's Death of a Miner, and Dennis McIntyre's National Anthem. Her Broadway credits include Tennessee Williams' Summer and Smoke, the title role in Wendy Wasserstein's Pulitzer Prize-winning The Heidi Chronicles, and Emily Mann's Execution of Justice. She received rave reviews for her performance opposite David Strathairn in Emily Mann's acclaimed adaptation of Chekhov's classic, The Cherry Orchard.McDonnell lives in Pacific Palisades, Los Angeles County, California with her husband, actor Randle Mell, and their children, Olivia and Michael. - IMDb Mini Biography By: Gustaf Molin <gumo@hem2.passagen.se>

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Streaming Availability

Amazon Video has the most number of Mary McDonnell’s flixes, followed by Vudu compared to other streaming platforms. See the full graph below.

Releases by Year

Mary McDonnell on average has worked on 2 movies per year from 1984 to 2012. See the full graphs of the number of Mary McDonnell movies released per year from 1997 till 2012.

Top Genres

Mary McDonnell works mostly in Drama Genre followed by Documentary Genre flixes. 46% of Mary McDonnell movies are Drama Genre movies. See Top Genres that Mary McDonnell worked on in the graph below.

Average IMDB Score

On average the IMDB score of the movies that Mary McDonnell has worked on is 6.9.

6.9 / 10

Mary McDonnell's Movies and Tv Series available to Stream now ..

Action,Adventure,Drama
Battlestar Galactica (2004)

When an old enemy, the Cylons, resurface and obliterate the 12 colonies, the crew of the aged Galactica protect a small civilian fleet - the last of humanity - as they journey toward the fabled 13th colony, Earth.

8.7/1044 min

Available in 8 platform(s).

Action,Adventure,Drama
Battlestar Galactica (2003)

Following the destruction of the Twelve Colonies of Kobol by the Cylons, a rag-tag fugitive fleet of the last remnants of mankind flees the pursuing Cylons while simultaneously searching for their true home: Earth.

8.5/10183 min

Available in 4 platform(s).

Drama,Mystery,Sci-Fi
Donnie Darko (2001)

After narrowly escaping a bizarre accident, a troubled teenager is plagued by visions of a man in a large rabbit suit who manipulates him to commit a series of crimes.

8/10113 min

Available in 13 platform(s).

Adventure,Drama,Western
Dances with Wolves (1990)

Lieutenant John Dunbar, assigned to a remote western Civil War outpost, befriends wolves and Indians, making him an intolerable aberration in the military.

8/10181 min

Available in 11 platform(s).

Action,Crime,Drama
Major Crimes (2012)

The Closer (2005) spin-off series, which follows Captain Raydor of the Los Angeles Police Department.

7.7/1043 min

Available in 9 platform(s).

A two-hour Battlestar Galactica special that tells the story of the Battlestar Pegasus several months prior to it finding the Galactica.

7.6/10101 min

Available in 3 platform(s).

After an accident leaves her a paraplegic, a former soap opera star struggles to recover both emotionally and mentally, until she meets her newest nurse, who has struggles of her own.

7.4/10135 min

Available in 16 platform(s).

7.2/1083 min

Available in 1 platform(s).