Mary McDonnell Vault is your online resource dedicated to actress Mary McDonnell. You better know Mary for her role as Captain Sharon Raydor for the TNT crime series The Closer & Major Crimes, Not to forget one of her most important and intense roles, as President of the Universe Laura Roslin in Battlestar Galactica. A prolofic actress in TV like in Cinema, with roles in movies such as Independence Day, Donnie Darko, Dances with Wolves, Sneakers, Mumford, Passion Fish and many others. Site is comprehensive of a big photogallery with events, photoshoots, magazines, stills, an extensive press library to collect all the articles and interviews on her and a video gallery section for recorded interviews, sneak peeks and trailers of her projects. We claim no rights to know her personally and it's absolutely respectful of her privacy and paparazzi-free!!!

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TV Guide USA 2009 HQ Scans
April 1, 2015   Magazines

It is with my deepest pride I’m making this post today. Thanks to the complicity of my friend Stef I was able to grab the copy of the one magazine that features Mary and it’s an old TV Guide copy from 2009 on Battlestar Galactica which I bought and my friend scanned for us. So […]


“Hostile Makeover” DVD Screencaptures
March 19, 2015   Hostile Makeover, Movies, Screencaptures

Since Mary is on a pause after the extraordinary weeks in theatre, I’ve gone far with capping her career projects and today I conclude the “Crime of Fashion” series with DVD Screencaptures from Hostile Makeover where she reprised her role of Rose Smithsonian, the protagonist’s mother, and this time she was a lot more present […]


“Donnie Darko” HD Screencaptures
March 12, 2015   Donnie Darko, Movies, Screencaptures

Donnie Darko is a truly weird movie. The first time I saw it I totally disliked (but could have been cause I was only 14 and the rabbit crapped me out!) but re-watching it recently it got a great potential of a good horror movie. No need to say Mary was of course exceptional and […]


The Cherry Orchard More BTS Photos Added
March 6, 2015   Behinds, Stages, The Cherry Orchard

I found more rehearsal photos of Mary in The Cherry Orchard. They are so pretty! Enjoy them! Theatre Stages > The Cherry Orchard > Rehearsal – January 22, 2015 Theatre Stages > The Cherry Orchard > Rehearsal – February 10, 2015


THE CHERRY ORCHARD (People’s Light): Capturing the comedy, insight, and pathos of Chekhov
February 28, 2015   Articles, Stages, The Cherry Orchard

Completed in 1904, THE CHERRY ORCHARD, Anton Chekhov’s final dramatic work, is the most often staged of all Russian plays worldwide, and its production at People’s Light & Theatre Company (adaptation by Emily Mann) affirms why. Combining insightful socio-cultural farce with gripping human pathos, its dual nature as comedy and tragedy is captured in spades […]


“The Cherry Orchard” Additional Still
February 23, 2015   Stages, Stills, The Cherry Orchard

From Mary’s words The Cherry Orchard is giving a good succeess and we couldn’t be happier because both she and her daughter deserves this all. Appereantly people are facing bad weather to see them, and I’m so very much thrilled to find little glimpse of it in stills. Today I add one new still to […]


Mary McDonnell Injects Star Power Into a New People’s Light & Theatre Production
February 14, 2015   Articles, Interviews, Stages, The Cherry Orchard

The Oscar-nominated actress stars with David Strathairn in ‘The Cherry Orchard.’ Stands With a Fist is now a Russian aristocrat. Mary McDonnell first rose to fame playing the Anglo-raised-by-Indians character inDances With Wolves, the 1990 film that earned her Academy Award and Golden Globe nominations. This month, McDonnell takes the stage at Malvern’s People’s Light […]