Mary McDonnell

Mary McDonnell

Date of Birth: 28 Apr 1952

Country: USA

Biography: Mary 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 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...(Wikipedia)

Total Credits at Criticker: 32 (Actor)

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    Dances with Wolves
    Rewarded for his heroism in the Civil War, Lt. Dunbar (Costner) wants to see the American frontier before it is gone. He is assigned to an adandoned fort, where a sioux tribe is his only neighbor. Overcoming the language barrier and their mutual fear and distrust, Dunbar and the proud Indians gradually become friends. Eventually, he falls in love with the beautiful Stands With a Fist (McDonnell), a white woman raised by the tribe. (MGM)
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    Donnie Darko
    A troubled teenager is plagued by visions of a man in a large rabbit suit who manipulates him to commit a series of crimes, after he narrowly escapes a bizarre accident.
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    Independence Day
    Mysterious and powerful aliens launch an all-out invasion against the human race. The spectacle begins when massive spaceships appear in Earth's skies. But wonder turns to terror as the ships blast destructive beams of fire down on cities all over the planet. Now the world's only hope lies with a determined band of survivors, uniting for one last strike against the invaders - before it's the end of all mankind. (20th Century Fox)
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    Nola
    An urban fairy tale-romantic comedy, in which Nola, an aspiring songwriter, leaves an abusive Kansas home and journeys to New York to find her biological father. Once there, she finds more than she expected. (imdb)
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    Grand Canyon
    Grand Canyon revolved around six residents from different backgrounds whose lives intertwine in modern-day Los Angeles.
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    Sneakers
    Complex but lighthearted thriller about computers and cryptography, government and espionage, secrets and deception and betrayal. (imdb)
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    Passion Fish
    May-Alice Culhane was a successful soap opera star, but a car accident has left her bound to a wheelchair... (imdb)
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    Matewan
    A labor union organizer comes to an embattled mining community brutally and violently dominated and harassed by the mining company. (imdb)
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    Crazy Like a Fox
    When big-city speculators cheat him out of his farm, old-time, eccentric Virginian Nathaniel Banks leaves his family and makes a new home in a cave on the creek, inspiring a community-wide rebellion as he eventually forces his way back home. Nat won't go down without a fight! (Delphi Film Foundation)
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    Blue Chips
    A college basketball coach is forced to break the rules in order to get the players he needs to stay competitive. (imdb)
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    Mrs. Harris
    Mrs. Harris (2005) - TV Movie
    Based on the sensational 1980s media event, famed cardiologist Herman Tarnower meets a particularly brutal end at the hands of his jilted lover, Jean Harris. (imdb)
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    Battlestar Galactica
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    Battlestar Galactica: Razor
    A two-hour Battlestar Galactica special that tells the story of the Battlestar Pegasus several months prior to it finding the Galactica. (imdb)
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    You Can Thank Me Later
    This film combines the realistic and the surreal into a delicious, yet quite believable family drama, with just enough sharp humor to satisfy your funny bone. Ellen Burstyn, always fantastic, is smashing as the mother hen of the brood, with very convincing performances by Amanda Plummer as her confused Bohemian daughter, Mary McDonnell as Burstyn's daughter-in-law, and the wonderful Genevieve Bujold as Joselle, the mysterious nun. (imdb User Comments)
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    The American Clock
    This film is based on Arthur Miller's recollection of the events of the 1930's Depression. In the film, John Rubinstein, Mary McDonnell, and Loren Dean are all members of an upper class family who find the world completely changed when they lose everything in the Stock Market crashes. Dean, a college age young man, who now faces no possibility of entering college, decides to go on the road to see what is happening to the rest of the country. (imdb)
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    Tiger Warsaw
    Chuck brought sorrow to his family when he shot his father who is now a semi-invalid. After 15 years of self destruction, he returns home to seek forgiveness. (imdb)
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    For All Time
    For All Time (2000) - TV Movie
    Male facing middle-age and failing marriage finds a time slip that can take him back to the end of the nineteenth century. (imdb)
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    Woman Undone
    Woman Undone (1996) - TV Movie
    Terri Hansen is discovered in the desert beside the blackened husk of her car which contains the charred corpse of her husband. When forensic evidence makes her out to be her husband's murderer, she quietly protests her innocence, but makes no effort to mount a defense. Terri doesn't expect to be believed. Was it self-defense or murder? While Terri acts strangely indifferent to her own fate, her attorney tries to reconstruct what happened... (imdb)
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    Margin Call
    A thriller that revolves around the key people at a investment bank over a 24-hour period during the early stages of the 2008 financial crisis.
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    Evidence of Blood
    When a Pulitzer prize winning author of true crimes returns to his hometown in Georgia, it isn't long before he is involved in a forty year old case of a teenage girl who had been murdered. Together with the daughter of the man convicted of the crime, they find themselves caught up in a conspiracy of devastating proportions... but even more, as the story moves on to its terrifying climax, it also reveals something very personal about his own family. (BOB STEBBINS)
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    A Father\
    The fast-paced city life of two sisters is turned upside down when they are sent to live in the country with their father after their mother is killed.
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    Killer Hair
    Killer Hair (2009) - TV Movie
    A fashion reporter stumbles on a murder investigation in the Nation's Capitol, only to be thrown for a loop when her police detective former lover is assigned to the case. (imdb)
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    Hostile Makeover
    Street-smart, D.C. fashion reporter Lacey Smithsonian is breaking news again when she interviews a supermodel who reveals that she's been receiving unfashionable death threats. (imdb)
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    Replacing Dad
    Linda and George live in a small town. He is the school principal. They are about to celebrate their 16th anniversary. She catches him with her daughter's young teacher, and has to deal with the kids, the town and her love to him.
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    Behind the Mask
    Dr. Bob Shushan is an overworked and absent father who runs a centre for the mentally and physically challenged. When Shushan suffers a heart attack, his life is saved by James Jones, a young patient at the center. The two men forge a friendship and help each other rekindle the father-son bond that has been missing in their lives.
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    Battlestar Galactica
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    Major Crimes
    Major Crimes (2012) - TV Series
    'The Closer' spin-off series which follows Capt. Raydor of the Los Angeles Police Department. (imdb)
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    Rebel
    Rebel (2021) - TV Series
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    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, he must face the demons of his past.
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    The Fall of the House of Usher
    Based on works by Edgar Allan Poe, this wicked series follows a family dynasty that rumbles when its heirs mysteriously begin to die. (Netflix)
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    Fargo
    Fargo (2014) - TV Series
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    E/R
    E/R (1984) - TV Series
    The recently divorced Dr. Sheinfeld becomes an emergency room doctor at a Chicago hospital, where he soon bonds with Dr. Eve Sheridan. Situational humor mixes with tense medical crises. (imdb)
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