Mary McDonnell

Q: Has Mary McDonnell won any awards?

Yes, Mary McDonnell has received multiple award nominations, including two Academy Award nominations. She has also won a Primetime Emmy Award for her performance in 'Into the West.'

Q: What was Mary McDonnell's first film?

Mary McDonnell made her film debut in 'The Richard III' adaptation in 1970. However, she gained widespread recognition in the early 1990s with 'Dances with Wolves.'

Q: Which films are considered Mary McDonnell's most successful?

Some of Mary McDonnell's most successful films include 'Dances with Wolves,' 'Passion Fish,' and 'Independence Day.' These films showcased her talent and contributed to her popularity.

Q: What is known about Mary McDonnell's personal life?

Mary McDonnell was married to actor Bruce Davison from 1984 to 1990. She has two children, Dylan and Olivia, and maintains a relatively private personal life away from the spotlight.

Q: What is Mary McDonnell's estimated net worth?

Mary McDonnell's estimated net worth is around $8 million. Her successful acting career in film and television has contributed significantly to her financial success.

Q: What are some milestones in Mary McDonnell's filmography?

Mary McDonnell's filmography includes notable milestones such as her Academy Award nominations and her iconic role in 'Battlestar Galactica.' Her work spans various genres, showcasing her range as an actress.

Q: What acting style is Mary McDonnell known for?

Mary McDonnell is known for her emotional depth and ability to portray complex characters. Her distinctive voice and strong presence have made her a respected figure in both film and television.

Known for

Independence Day (1996)

IMDb 7.0 / 10

1996 / Action, Adventure / 145 min

On July 2, a giant alien mothership enters orbit around Earth and deploys several dozen saucer-shaped 'destroyer' spacecraft that quickly lay waste to major...

Donnie Darko (2001)

2001 / Drama, Fantasy / 114mins

After narrowly escaping a bizarre accident, a troubled teenager is plagued by visions of a large bunny rabbit that manipulates him to commit a...

Name

Mary McDonnell

Height

5 ft 6 in (1.68 m)

Born

28 April 1952, Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania, USA

Spouses

Bruce Davison (1984–1990)

Children

2 (Dylan McDonnell, Olivia McDonnell)

Parents

John McDonnell, Eileen McDonnell

Estimated Net Worth

$8 million

Year	Title	Character	Rating
2026	TV VisionQuest After the events of WandaVision, White Vision struggles to connect with the memories given to him as he lacks the...	Unknown character	Not rated
2026	TV The Boroughs In a seemingly perfect retirement community, a crew of unlikely heroes must stop an otherworldly threat from stealing the one...	The Duchess	TMDB 7.3 / 10
2025	TV Twelve Dates 'Til Christmas Talented Saville Row textile pattern designer Kate lives in the quaint village of Blexford, England. Unbeknownst to Kate, her best...	Delilah	TMDB 7.8 / 10
2025	Movie Broke A bronc rider in denial about his fading rodeo career battles against brain injury and a sudden blizzard while reflecting...	Kathy Brandywine	TMDB 7.1 / 10
2023	TV The Fall of the House of Usher Ruthless siblings Roderick and Madeline Usher have built Fortunato Pharmaceuticals into an empire of wealth, privilege and power. But past...	Madeline Usher	TMDB 7.6 / 10
2021	Movie The Witcher: Nightmare of the Wolf Escaping from poverty to become a witcher, Vesemir slays monsters for coin and glory, but when a new menace rises,...	Lady Zerbst (voice)	TMDB 7.4 / 10
2021	TV Rebel Annie “Rebel” Bello is a blue-collar legal advocate without a law degree. She’s a funny, messy, brilliant and fearless woman...	Helen Peterson	TMDB 7.1 / 10
2021	TV Rebel Annie “Rebel” Bello is a blue-collar legal advocate without a law degree. She’s a funny, messy, brilliant and fearless woman...	Helen	TMDB 7.1 / 10
2014	TV Fargo A close-knit anthology series dealing with stories involving malice, violence and murder based in and around Minnesota.	Ruby Goldfarb	TMDB 8.3 / 10
2012	TV Major Crimes Major Crimes explores how the American justice system approaches the art of the deals as law enforcement officers and prosecutors...	Captain Sharon Raydor	TMDB 7.4 / 10
2011	Movie Margin Call Set in the high-stakes world of the financial industry, involving the key players at an investment firm during one perilous...	Mary Rogers	TMDB 6.9 / 10
2011	Movie Scream 4 Fifteen years after the original Woodsboro murders, Sidney Prescott returns home to promote her new book about surviving trauma, only...	Kate Roberts	TMDB 6.5 / 10
2009	Movie Hostile Makeover Lacey Smithsonian is a stylish journalist who works as a television reporter. When interviewing a prestigious fashion designer Amanda Manville,...	Rose Smithsonian	TMDB 7.8 / 10
2007	Movie Battlestar Galactica: Razor The history and adventures of the Battlestar Pegasus, from shortly before the Cylon invasion to shortly after Lee Adama is...	President Laura Roslin	TMDB 7.2 / 10
2006	Movie Mrs. Harris Based on the sensational 1980s media event, famed cardiologist Herman Tarnower meets a particularly brutal end at the hands of...	Vivian Schulte	TMDB 5.9 / 10
2005	TV The Closer Deputy Police Chief Brenda Leigh Johnson transfers from Atlanta to LA to head up a special unit of the LAPD...	Sharon Raydor (archive footage) (uncredited)	TMDB 7.9 / 10
2005	TV The Closer Deputy Police Chief Brenda Leigh Johnson transfers from Atlanta to LA to head up a special unit of the LAPD...	Captain Sharon Raydor	TMDB 7.9 / 10
2005	TV The Closer Deputy Police Chief Brenda Leigh Johnson transfers from Atlanta to LA to head up a special unit of the LAPD...	Sharon Raydor	TMDB 7.9 / 10
2005	TV Grey's Anatomy Follows the personal and professional lives of a group of doctors at Seattle's Grey Sloan Memorial Hospital.	Virginia Dixon	TMDB 8.2 / 10
2004	Movie Crazy Like a Fox This is the story of Nat Banks, an 8th generation Virginian gentleman farmer living in the past, who loses his...	Amy Banks	TMDB 6.5 / 10
2004	TV Battlestar Galactica When an old enemy, the Cylons, resurface and obliterate the 12 colonies, the crew of the aged Galactica protect a...	Laura Roslin	TMDB 8.2 / 10
2004	TV Veronica Mars In the fictional town of Neptune, California, student Veronica Mars progresses from high school to college while moonlighting as a...	Jane	TMDB 7.8 / 10
2003	TV Battlestar Galactica A re-imagining of the original series in which a "rag-tag fugitive fleet" of the last remnants of mankind flees pursuing...	President Laura Roslin	TMDB 8.2 / 10
2003	Movie The Making of ‘Sneakers’ Behind-the-scenes documentary on the making of ‘Sneakers’ (1992).	Self	TMDB 7.5 / 10
2003	Movie Dances with Wolves: The Creation of an Epic A documentary of the making of Dances with Wolves told through interviews with cast and crew. It describes the financial...	Self	TMDB 8.0 / 10
2003	Movie Nola An urban fairy tale-romantic comedy, in which Nola, an aspiring songwriter, leaves an abusive Kansas home and journeys to New...	Margaret Langworthy	TMDB 6.8 / 10
2002	Movie The Locket A bereaved man takes a job at a health care center, where he befriends an elderly and embittered woman -...	Helen Staples	TMDB 5.2 / 10
2001	Movie Donnie Darko After narrowly escaping a bizarre accident, a troubled teenager is plagued by visions of a large bunny rabbit that manipulates...	Rose Darko	TMDB 7.8 / 10
2000	Movie For All Time A man facing middle-age and a failing marriage finds a time slip that can take him back to the end...	Laura Brown	TMDB 6.4 / 10
2000	Movie A Father's Choice The fast-paced city life of two sisters is turned upside down when they are sent to live in the country...	Susan Shaw	TMDB 5.2 / 10
1999	TV Ryan Caulfield: Year One Ryan Caulfield: Year One is an American crime drama that aired from October 15, 1999 to October 22, 1999. The...	Rachel Caulfield	TMDB 6.0 / 10
1999	Movie Mumford When a would-be psychologist, curiously named Dr. Mumford, comes to the idyllic town of the same name and offers his...	Althea Brockett	TMDB 6.5 / 10
1999	Movie Replacing Dad Linda and George live in a small town. He is the school principal. They are about to celebrate their 16th...	Linda Marsh	TMDB 6.4 / 10
1999	Movie Behind the Mask Dr. Bob Shushan is an overworked and absent father who runs a centre for the mentally and physically challenged. When...	Mary Shushan	TMDB 5.5 / 10
1998	Movie You Can Thank Me Later Shirley Cooperberg heads a Montreal Jewish family. During her husband's operation, her brood arrives at the hospital — failed writer...	Diane	TMDB 5.8 / 10
1998	Movie Evidence of Blood When a brilliant crime writer investigates a 40-year-old murder, he confronts a small town's worst fears.	Dora Overton	TMDB 6.6 / 10
1997	Movie 12 Angry Men During the trial of a man accused of his father's murder, a lone juror takes a stand against the guilty...	Judge	TMDB 7.7 / 10
1997	Movie Two Voices When two women have breast implants for contrasting reasons, they both suffer from frightening side effects. They decide to unite...	Sybil Goldrich	TMDB 5.6 / 10
1996	Movie Mariette in Ecstasy In this forceful study of religious passion an extraordinary spiritual experience is placed in the center of a deftly evoked...	Prioress	TMDB 8.0 / 10
1996	Movie Independence Day Strange phenomena surface around the globe. The skies ignite. Terror races through the world's major cities. As these extraordinary events...	Marilyn Whitmore	TMDB 6.9 / 10
1996	Movie Independence Day: The ID4 Invasion A "mockumentary" of the alien invasion during Independence Day. Barry Nolan hosts the programme, the first 9 minutes of which...	Self	TMDB 6.6 / 10
1996	Movie The Making of 'Independence Day' We take a look at various fields of development for the motion picture, Independence Day (1996). Jeff Goldblum is our...	Self	TMDB 6.1 / 10
1996	Movie Woman Undone When Terri Hansen (Mary McDonnell) emerges from a fiery car crash as a widow, the local sheriff at first believes...	Teri Hansen	TMDB 4.1 / 10
1995	TV High Society High Society is the title of an American television sitcom that aired Monday nights on CBS in 1995 and early...	Dott Emerson	TMDB 8.0 / 10
1994	TV Touched by an Angel Monica, an angel, is tasked with bringing guidance and messages from God to various people who are at a crossroads...	Sister Theodore Claire	TMDB 7.2 / 10
1994	TV ER ER explores the inner workings of an urban teaching hospital and the critical issues faced by the dedicated physicians and...	Eleanor Carter	TMDB 7.8 / 10
1994	Movie Blue Chips Pete Bell, a college basketball coach is under a lot of pressure. His team isn't winning and he cannot attract...	Jenny	TMDB 6.1 / 10
1993	Movie The American Clock Moe, Rose and Lee Baumler are members of an upper class family who find the world completely changed when they...	Rose Baumler	TMDB 5.7 / 10
1992	Movie Passion Fish After an accident leaves her a paraplegic, a former soap opera star struggles to recover both emotionally and mentally, until...	May-Alice Culhane	TMDB 7.0 / 10
1992	Movie Sneakers When shadowy U.S. intelligence agents blackmail a reformed computer hacker and his eccentric team of security experts into stealing a...	Liz	TMDB 6.9 / 10
1991	Movie Grand Canyon Grand Canyon revolved around six residents from different backgrounds whose lives intertwine in modern-day Los Angeles. At the center of...	Claire	TMDB 6.4 / 10
1990	Movie The Making of 'Dances with Wolves' A documentary about the making of director Kevin Costner's Academy Award-winning directorial debut, Dances With Wolves.	Herself	TMDB 7.0 / 10
1990	Movie Dances with Wolves Wounded Civil War soldier John Dunbar tries to commit suicide—and becomes a hero instead. As a reward, he's assigned to...	Stands With A Fist	TMDB 7.8 / 10
1988	TV American Experience TV's most-watched history series brings to life the compelling stories from our past that inform our understanding of the world...	Narrator (voice)	TMDB 6.5 / 10
1988	Movie Tiger Warsaw Chuck brought sorrow to his family when he shot his father who is now a semi-invalid. After 15 years of...	Paula Warsaw	TMDB 5.5 / 10
1987	Movie Matewan Filmed in the coal country of West Virginia, "Matewan" celebrates labor organizing in the context of a 1920s work stoppage....	Elma Radnor	TMDB 7.4 / 10
1986	Movie Courage A mother in Queens, New York, outraged when she discovers that her son is a drug addict, becomes an undercover...	Gabriella Estrada	TMDB 6.8 / 10
1984	Movie Garbo Talks When New York accountant Gilbert Rolfe finds out his mother has a brain tumor, he is devastated. His incorrigible mother,...	Lady Capulet	TMDB 6.3 / 10
1984	TV E/R E/R is an American television sitcom that aired in 1984 and 1985. Developed from the long running play of the...	Eve Sheridan	TMDB 5.6 / 10
1982	Movie Money on the Side Three middle-class housewives who are having money problems join a prostitution ring.	Terri	TMDB 4.4 / 10
1953	TV The Oscars An annual American awards ceremony honoring cinematic achievements in the film industry. The various category winners are awarded a copy...	Self	TMDB 7.0 / 10
1951	TV Hallmark Hall of Fame Long-running anthology program sponsored by Hallmark Cards. Beginning in 1951 and continuing into 2019, the series received 80 Emmy Awards,...	Helen Staples	TMDB 8.8 / 10
1944	TV Golden Globe Awards An annual awards ceremony recognizing excellence in film and television, both domestic and foreign, bestowed by the Hollywood Foreign Press...	Self	TMDB 6.9 / 10
TBA	Movie One Second After In a small North Carolina town, a former military officer must protect his family and community after an electromagnetic pulse...	Jen	Not rated

Broke

2025 / TMDB 7.1

The Witcher: Nightmare of the Wolf

2021 / TMDB 7.4

Margin Call

2011 / TMDB 6.9

Scream 4

2011 / TMDB 6.5

Hostile Makeover

2009 / TMDB 7.8

Battlestar Galactica: Razor

2007 / TMDB 7.2

Got a question about Mary McDonnell?

What are some of Mary McDonnell's career highlights?

Mary McDonnell is known for her standout performances in films like 'Dances with Wolves' and 'Passion Fish,' as well as her role as President Laura Roslin in 'Battlestar Galactica.' Her versatility has earned her critical acclaim across various genres.

Has Mary McDonnell won any awards?

What was Mary McDonnell's first film?

Which films are considered Mary McDonnell's most successful?

What is known about Mary McDonnell's personal life?

What is Mary McDonnell's estimated net worth?

What are some milestones in Mary McDonnell's filmography?

What acting style is Mary McDonnell known for?