Mary McDonnell is one of the most popular and richest Movie Actress who was born on April 28, 1952 in Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania, United States. The actress was nominated to win an Academy Award for her role in the movie Dances with Wolves. The year 2012 was when she started acting as the character Captain Sharon Raydor in Major Crimes.
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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 (for which she won a Saturn Award), 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 she went on to star in the spin-off series Major Crimes, on the same network.
On television, McDonnell had her first regular part in 1980 on the soap opera As the World Turns. She starred in 1984 on the short-lived medical comedy E/R, alongside Elliott Gould and George Clooney. Coincidentally, she guest-starred in 2001 on the NBC medical series of the same name, ER, which also featured Clooney. She was nominated for an Emmy Award for her role on the show as Eleanor Carter, the mother of Dr. John Carter played by Noah Wyle, who also had a role in Donnie Darko. She played Dr. Virginia Dixon, a surgeon with Asperger syndrome for three episodes of Grey’s Anatomy in 2008 and 2009.
She was married to Randle Mell in the 1980’s and they had two kids.
