
Mary McDonnell
Acting
🎂 1952-04-28
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.
Cast credits(63)

Virginia Dixon
2005

Sister Theodore Claire
1994

Ruby Goldfarb
2014

Self - Nominee
1944

Laura Roslin
2004

Madeline Usher
2023

Eleanor Carter
1994

Jane
2004

Captain Sharon Raydor
2012

Self
1953

Narrator (voice)
1988

Sharon Raydor
2005

Captain Sharon Raydor
2005

Sharon Raydor (archive footage) (uncredited)
2005

Helen Staples
1951

Eve Sheridan
1984

Dott Emerson
1995

Helen Peterson
2021

Helen
2021

President Laura Roslin
2003

Marilyn Whitmore
1996

Rose Darko
2001

Liz
1992

Kathy Brandywine
2025

Mary Rogers
2011

Kate Roberts
2011

Stands With A Fist
1990

Lady Zerbst (voice)
2021

Judge
1997

Jenny
1994

President Laura Roslin
2007

Elma Radnor
1987

Claire
1991

Althea Brockett
1999

Self (archive footage)
2014
Delilah
2025

May-Alice Culhane
1992

Rachel Caulfield
1999

Margaret Langworthy
2003

Self
2004

Self
1996

Self
1996

Rose Baumler
1993

Terri
1982

Lady Capulet
1984

Mary Shushan
1999

Dora Overton
1998

Rose Smithsonian
2009

Linda Marsh
1999

Helen Staples
2002

Vivian Schulte
2006

Paula Warsaw
1988

Susan Shaw
2000

Herself
1990

Gabriella Estrada
1986

Self
2003

Diane
1998

Sybil Goldrich
1997

Teri Hansen
1996
Prioress
1996

Laura Brown
2000

Self
2003

Amy Banks
2004