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Mary McDonnell

Mary McDonnell is an American actress who is most well-known for starring in the television series "The Closer," and anchoring the spinoff "Major Crimes," playing Capt. Sharon Raydor, which ran for six seasons. She has starred in such films as "Dances with Wolves" and "Independence Day."

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Filmography

The Fall of the House of Usher

2023
as Madeline Usher

The Witcher: Nightmare of the Wolf

2021
as Lady Zerbst

Major Crimes

2012
as Sharon Raydor

Margin Call

2011
as Mary Rogers

Scream 4

2011
as Kate Roberts

Battlestar Galactica: Razor

2007
as President Laura Roslin

Mrs. Harris

2006
as Vivian Schulte

Battlestar Galactica (2003)

2005
as Laura Roslin

The Closer

2005
as Sharon Raydor

Crazy Like a Fox

2004
as Amy Banks

Dances with Wolves: The Creation of an Epic

2003
as Mary McDonnell

Nola

2003
as Margaret Langworthy

Donnie Darko

2001
as Mrs. Rose Darko

For All Time

2000
as Laura Brown

Amargosa

2000
as Narrator

A Father's Choice

2000
as Susan Shaw

Replacing Dad

1999
as Linda Marsh

You Can Thank Me Later

1999
as Diane

Mumford

1999
as Althea Brockett

Ryan Caulfield: Year One

1999

Evidence of Blood

1998
as Dora Overton

Spanish Fly

1998
as Zoe's Mother

Two Small Voices

1997
as Sybil Goldrich

12 Angry Men

1997
as Judge

Mariette in Ecstasy

1996
as Prioress

The Making of 'Independence Day'

1996
as Mary McDonnell

Independence Day: The ID4 Invasion

1996
as Mary McDonnell

Woman Undone

1996
as Teri Hansen

Independence Day

1996
as First Lady Marilyn Whitmore

High Society

1995
as Dott Emerson

Blue Chips

1994
as Jenny Bell

The American Clock

1993
as Rose Baumler

Sneakers

1992
as Liz

Passion Fish

1992
as May-Alice Culhane

Grand Canyon

1991
as Claire

The Making of 'Dances with Wolves'

1990
as Mary McDonnell

Dances with Wolves

1990
as Stands With A Fist

Tiger Warsaw

1988
as Paula Warsaw

Matewan

1987
as Elma Radnor

Garbo Talks

1984
as Stage actress

E/R (1984)

1984

Guest Star

Episode Veronica Mars
Years, Continents, Bloodshed 		2019
Episode FedCon
Unknown 		2018
Episode FedCon
Unknown 		2018
Episode Fargo
Aporia 		2017
Episode Fargo
Somebody to Love 		2017
Episode Fargo
The Law of Inevitability 		2017
Episode Fargo
The House of Special Purpose 		2017
Episode The Closer
Help Wanted 		2010
Episode Grey's Anatomy
Beat Your Heart Out 		2009
Episode Grey's Anatomy
All by Myself 		2008
Episode Late Show with David Letterman
Show #2892 		2008
Episode ER
Four Corners 		2001
Episode That's Life
Bad Hair Week 		2000
Episode American Experience
Fly Girls 		1999
Episode That's Life
Baum's Thesis 		1970