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Mary McDonnell
Mary Eileen McDonnell 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…
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entertainment · American actress (born 1952) · film actor · television actor · stage actor · actor · also Mary McDonnell, Mary Eileen McDonnell, McDonnell
Born 28 April 1952 · Q117500
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2026· 4 entries
It was announced that McDonnell has joined the cast of Baywatch in a recurring role as Gayle Buchannon, the mother of Hobie Buchannon (Stephen Amell) and the grandmother of Charlie Vale (Jessica Belkin)
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Variety: ‘Baywatch’ Reboot Adds Mary McDonnell
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2024· 2 entries
collider: Willa Fitzgerald Says Mary McDonnell Was Her “North Star” In ’The Fall of the House of Usher’
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Yahoo: Mary McDonnell ('The Fall of the House of Usher'): 'All the roads of my career have led me to this'
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2023· 1 entry
Played Madeleine Usher in the miniseries The Fall of the House of Usher on Netflix
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2012· 1 entry
McDonnell's character continued as the lead in the spin-off, Major Crimes, which debuted August 13, 2012 and ended in January 2018
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2011· 1 entry
Appeared in the role of Kate Roberts, the mother of Emma Roberts's character in Scream 4
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2003· 1 entry
McDonnell starred in the miniseries Battlestar Galactica as Laura Roslin
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2001· 1 entry
On the NBC medical series of the same name ER
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1997· 1 entry
Played the judge in the film 12 Angry Men
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1992· 1 entry
McDonnell received an Outstanding Achievement Award from Fredonia's alumni association
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1990· 1 entry
In Kevin Costner's Dances With Wolves as Stands With A Fist, the daughter of American settlers raised by Sioux Indians
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1978· 1 entry
And 1979, both times in the role of "Shelly"
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1952· 1 entry
Born 1952-04-28.
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