Celebrity Biographies
Mary McDonnell
Danced with wolves, and took off. Mary McDonnell was chosen by Kevin Costner to be “Standing with a Raised Fist,” his white wife who lives with the Indians in the multi-Oscar-winning Dances with Wolves . As she was not the classic beauty to the use of her, her career has not attracted as much attention as she deserved the undoubted quality of her as an actress, but she has to her credit very notable achievements, and has achieved a popularity “galactic”.
Mary Eileen McDonnell was born on April 28, 1952 in Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania, United States. She soon moved to Ithaca, New York, and attended the State University of New York at Fredonia. As she was attracted to the profession of actress, she trained as such to later join the Long Wharf Theater Company, of which she has been a part of for more than twenty years. McDonnell is married to fellow actor Randle Mell, with whom she shared a film in 1991, the Grand Canyon choir, the soul of the city , directed by Lawrence Kasdan . She with him she has two children.
His main acting dedication at the beginning of the profession was the theater, where he felt very comfortable. This made him compatible with some television jobs, the most striking being that of a doctor on the sitcom E/R , for 20 episodes she was Dr. Sheridan, and she coincided with an actor who would soon become famous in another medical series, ER ; I mean, of course, George Clooney ; she herself would participate in the series created by Michael Crichton , and also in Grey’s Anatomy .
His soft ways can be combined with a strong determination, which allows him to compose characters that are not easily forgotten. In cinema, his great opportunity came with Dances with Wolves (1990). “Standing With Your Fist Raised,” her character as a white woman living with a tribe of Indians who accepts a US Army officer into their midst, was quite a character, and earned her an Oscar nomination. . It did not materialize, although Kevin Costner ‘s film swept away with seven statuettes, and was a certain revival of the almost disappeared genre of the western with an epic canvas.
Then films of interest are emerging. Of course, the aforementioned Grand Canyon , an x-ray of the evils inherent in the big city, but also Sneakers (1992), a sophisticated thieves movie that involves working with two legendary actors, Robert Redford and Sidney Poitier . And especially Passion Fish , from the same year, directed by John Sayles , her role as an actress who has become paralyzed is moving, no wonder she managed to be nominated for an Oscar again, this time as the lead.
From here, the cinema does not love her. Or not as much as it should. She is in the basketball drama Win Any Way (1994), a disappointing work by William Friedkin . She’s America’s first lady in the goofy Martian invading blockbuster film Independence Day (1996). And Kasdan has her again, in the movie Mumford psychiatrist (1999).
It’s funny, but the Martian cult film Donnie Darko ( Richard Kelly , 2001) seems to have become her calling card for being entrusted with the role of President Laura Roslin in the Battlestar Galactica series , which has seen four seasons. Another series to which she has contributed her good acting skills is the disappearance cases The Closer . In cinema, of late, her contributions are clearly minor, but she can be glimpsed in the terrifying Scream 4 and the financial crisis drama Margin Call .