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!!!

March 9, 2018   That's Life, TV-Shows

Among the many role which Mary played, all with the same passion and dedication, was also the one of Jules O’Grady from the TV-Show That’s Life. Jules is a single parent who became a mother in her teen age and has a very difficult relationship with her daughter Jackie and also with alcohol and smoking. […]


February 4, 2018   Appereances

What a lovely surprise to find Mary McDonnell and her daughter Olivia Jane Mell at an event yesterday, not too many pictures but still here they are! Enjoy. Public Appearances > Events From 2018 > Feb 03 | Witness: The John Edgar Wideman Experience


February 1, 2018   Movies, Screencaptures, The Locket, Videos

It has been a while since I posted screencaptures and clips from a TV movie Mary starrred in and today I picked The Locket, in which she played Helen Staples, perhaps for a vicinity of mine towards nursing homes, but also because it is a great movie starring Chad Willett, Marguerite Moreau and the timeless […]


January 25, 2018   Articles, Interviews, Magazines

In these quite times from news and photos I love finding old stuff that can be added to the gallery, and so is the case for this magazine scan from Parade from March 1993. To simplify the reading for everyone I have transcribed the interview in our press archive. Magazines & Scans > Scans From […]


January 19, 2018   Appereances

I do love events! It’s a fact. And when a new year start I feel a strong sensation of happiness to add the category of the new year. So we start, first event of 2018 for Mary (accompanied by her daughter Olivia Jane Mell) at Casting Society Of America’s 33rd Annual Artios Awards. There aren’t many […]


January 15, 2018   Articles, Interviews

“Major Crimes” star Mary McDonnell shares with Variety her thoughts on the show’s final season, which saw her character, Sharon Raydor, killed off. I have been watching, reading and listening to the fans’ reactions to Sharon’s death, and it’s taken me a while to find the essence of my experience. I have been approached by several journalists, but […]



And we come to the end of this 4-days journey together. What I’m presenting to you today from Razor and Season 4 is interviews and deleted scenes, which are mostly extended, meaning they are cut parts from scenes we’ve already seen on screen. Thank you very much for everyone commenting, participating and celebrating this birthday […]