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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Production Info

Character: Captain/Commander Sharon Raydor

Created by: James Duff

Directed by: Michael M. Robin, Steve Robin, Sheelin Choksey, Rick Wallace, David McWhirter, Stacey K. Black, Paul McCrane, Leo Geter, Jon Tenney, Anthony Hemingway, Nzingha Stewart, Patrick Duffy, David A. Harp, Sylvain White, Arvin Brown, Roxann Dawson, James Duff, Jennifer Phang

Written by: James Duff, Ralph Gifford, Kendall Sherwood, Carson Moore, Damani Johnson, Michael Zara, Nick Zayas, Adam Belanoff, Duppy Demetrius, Michael Alaimo, Mike Berchem, Jim Leonard, Leo Geter, Steven Kane

Produced by: Ronald Chong, Sheelin Choksey, Mike Berchem, Giampaolo Debole, Paul Orehovec, Kendall Sherwood

Cast Members: G. W. Bailey, Tony Denison, Michael Paul Chan, Raymond Cruz, Kearran Giovanni, Phillip P. Keene, Graham Patrick Martin, Jonathan Del Arco, Robert Gossett, Jon Tenney, Leonard Roberts, Daniel Di Tomasso, Jessica Meraz

Released date: August 13, 2012

Language(s): English

Genre: Action, Crime, Drama

Duration: 43 min

When "The Closer" came to a close, doors opened for the detectives in the Los Angeles Police Department's Major Crimes Division, with the biggest opportunity presented to Capt. Sharon Raydor. The captain is now the boss, taking over a department that hasn't forgotten her history of internal investigations targeting them and their former boss, Deputy Chief Brenda Leigh Johnson. As Raydor attempts to mend fences and gain the trust and confidence of her detectives -- her biggest foe in that regard is Lt. Provenza -- she leads a unit that works more closely than Johnson ever did with other police and prosecutors to build airtight cases.
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Taglines

→ Major Crimes. Major Convictions.
→ Leading with convictions.

Trivia

→ Spin-off from The Closer, in which McDonnell played as guest actor and then in a recurring role as Captain Sharon Raydor.
→ Lieutenant Chuck Cooper is played by Malcolm-Jamal Warner. He and McDonnell previously worked together in Three Ways Home.
→ Among the many guest stars on the show, in episode 4×03, we meet Jamie Bamber in the role of Malcolm Rich. He and McDonnell played in Battlestar Galactica together.

Episodes Guide

Season 1, Season 2, Season 3, Season 4 Season 5, Season 6

In Mary’s words…

I think that we all have an antagonist and a protagonist in us at any moment. And quite often we will be perceived as an antagonist by others, but they’re only seeing us at a very specific moment in our lives, or seeing a specific action. They don’t know us at all. And we’re very quick to judge people. I wanted the opportunity to take “Darth Raydor,” as the characters called her, and open her up so people would go: “You know what, I was pretty quick to judge that woman and I didn’t know a thing about her.” And that’s what happened. And I’m thrilled with that. [from “A conversation with Mary McDonnell” by K. Tempest Bradford]

Script developed by Never Enough Design