Mary McDonnell

Biography

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.

Known For

Donnie Darko

as Rose Darko

Grey's Anatomy

as Virginia Dixon

Independence Day

as Marilyn Whitmore

Dances with Wolves

as Stands With A Fist

Scream 4

as Kate Roberts

Fargo

as Ruby Goldfarb

Margin Call

as Mary Rogers

Battlestar Galactica

as Laura Roslin

The Witcher: Nightmare of the Wolf

as Lady Zerbst (voice)

Sneakers

as Liz