Mary McDonnell

Mary Eileen McDonnell is an American film, stage, and television actress. She received Academy Award nominations for her roles as Stands with a Fist in Dances with Wolves and May-Alice Culhane in Passion Fish. McDonnell is well known for her performances as President Laura Roslin in Battlestar Galactica, First Lady Marilyn Whitmore in Independence Day, and Rose in Donnie Darko. She was featured as Captain Sharon Raydor during seasons 5–7 of the TNT series The Closer and starred as Commander Sharon Raydor in the spin-off series Major Crimes on the same network. In 2023, she had a main role as Madeleine Usher in the horror limited series The Fall of the House of Usher by Netflix.

28 April 1952

Born on the same birth date (28 April 1952): Chuck Leavell

Born on the same birth day (28 April): Bruno Kirby • Chris White (politician) • Ethel Catherwood • Johan Borgen • Larissa Grunig • Larry Smith (Canadian politician) • Lauren Laverne • Lois Duncan • Marie Harel • Michel Mohrt • Roger Johnson (footballer) • Rose Murphy • Saeb Erekat • Violent J • Willie Colón

Born in the same month (April 1952): Ahmet Piriştina • Ari Vatanen • Avital Ronell • Bernard Stiegler • Chuck Leavell • Dennis Hayden (actor) • Esther Roth-Shahamorov • Geraldine Doogue • Jane Frederick • Joe Alaskey • John C. Dvorak • Louka Katseli • Michel Blanc • Mike Moore (American politician) • Nora Dunn • Pat Burns • Rosemarie Ackermann • Steven Seagal