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!!!

Review: Major Crimes and the end of Sharon Raydor.
December 22, 2017   Major Crimes, Site Maintenance, Stills, TV-Shows

For those of you who have been following me for the past (almost!) 3 years, you know I do not review episodes, nor I comment too much on the site, because I have always firmly believed that a fansite owner needs to be super partes, and always keep things controlled and never expressed for this […]


‘Major Crimes’ Team Reflects on Sharon’s Evolution, Differentiating From ‘The Closer’
December 16, 2017   Articles, Interviews

When viewers first met Sharon Raydor (Mary McDonnell), she was an antogonist, not the leading lady. Tasked with investigating officers and even auditing the Major Crimesdivision on “The Closer,” the Warner Bros. crime drama for TNT starring Kyra Sedgwick, the intense law enforcement professional spent the better part of four years in that role. But something […]


Major Crimes: 4×02 “Sorry I Missed You” Synopsis
November 13, 2017   Major Crimes, News & Announcements

TNT released the synopsis from the second episode of season 4 of Major Crimes. When a dead body pops out of the trunk at the end of a car chase, the squad must untangle connections between a superstar chef; a middle-aged pediatric psychiatrist and his second, much younger wife; and a bankruptcy lawyer (Paul Schultze) […]


Major Crimes to End After Season 6
October 3, 2017   Major Crimes, News & Announcements

Cops, out. TNT’s Major Crimes will end after its upcoming sixth season, TVLine has learned exclusively. What will now be the crime drama’s 13-episode farewell run kicks off on Tuesday, Oct. 31 at 9/8c, with the milestone Episode 100 landing on Dec. 19. The double-episode series finale will then air Jan. 16, 2018. “The whole company of Major Crimes is dedicated […]


Fargo adds Battlestar Galactica veteran to cast
May 10, 2017   Fargo, News & Announcements

We may be a few episodes into Fargo season 3, but there’s a surprise addition to the cast that hasn’t yet been announced. Battlestar Galactica veteran and Major Crimes star Mary McDonnell has booked a guest arc on the FX drama. She plays “the so-called storage queen of The Great Lakes region, Ruby Goldfarb, who offers Emmit […]


Major Crimes excerpt on TV Guide
February 11, 2017   Magazines

TV Guide has included Major Crimes return in their February issue, for the week from 20 to 26. Don’t miss it! It’s on Wednesday, 9/8c on TNT. (I apologize for the photo quality but they seem to have taken from the original still and enlarged so that it pixelated badly. Nothing I could do about […]


Major Crimes Renewed for Season 6
January 18, 2017   Major Crimes, News & Announcements

TNT’s Major Crimes has been renewed for a 13-episode Season 6, the cabler announced on Wednesday. If the abbreviated order has you feeling a bit of deja vu, it’s because the procedural started Season 5 with the same, skimpy episode count, before eventually getting upsized to 21 total episodes. Mary McDonnell, G.W. Bailey, Tony Denison, […]