Stage, film & television
She won an Obie in 1980 for her work in the play Still Life. On Broadway, she has performed in productions of Execution of Justice, The Heidi Chronicles, and Summer and Smoke.
After more than 21 years of theater and television work, McDonnell made her film breakthrough in 1990 as Stands With A Fist, a European American raised by Sioux Indians, in Kevin Costner's Dances with Wolves. Despite portraying the adopted daughter of Graham Greene's character Kicking Bird, Mary McDonnell, then 37, was actually two months older than Greene, and less than two years younger than Tantoo Cardinal, the actress playing her adoptive mother. In addition, McDonnell was extremely nervous about shooting her sex scene with Kevin Costner, requesting it to be toned down from what was scripted.
She received a nomination for an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for the role. McDonnell's role in Passion Fish (1992) brought her another Academy Award nomination, this time for Best Actress in
More about Mary Mcdonnell (From Wikipedia)
Stage, Film & Television
She won an Obie in 1980 for her work in the play Still Life. On Broadway, she has performed in productions of Execution of Justice, The Heidi Chronicles, and Summer and Smoke.
After read more...
Battlestar Galactica
In 2003 McDonnell starred in the mini-series Battlestar Galactica as Laura Roslin. The mini-series led to the subsequent weekly series, with McDonnell reprising her role as the President read more...
Mary McDonnell (born April 28, 1952) is an Academy Award-nominated American film, stage, and television actress. She is famous for her Oscar-nominated role as Stands With a Fist read more...
McDonnell was born in Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania and raised in Ithaca, New York After graduating from the State University of New York at Fredonia, she attended drama school and read more...