Mary McDonnell
Mary McDonnell Trivia
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In 2002, Mary received an Emmy nomination for Outstanding Guest Actress in a Drama Series for her role on ER.
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While attending college, Mary studied acting in Manchester, England as part of an exchange program.
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Mary appeared on Broadway in the following: Playing Alma Winemiller in Summer and Smoke Playing Heidi Holland in The Heidi Chronicles Playing Mary Ann White in Execution of Justice
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Mary wrote the forward for the book Coping with Lyme Disease: A Practical Guide to Dealing with Diagnosis and Treatment.
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Some of Mary's favorite television shows include 24, Brothers & Sisters, Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip and The West Wing.
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The glasses Laura Roslin wear are Mary McDonnell's actual glasses. She had them on when she got the role, and they decided they liked them for Laura Roslin.
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She played Rose Darko (Donnie's mother) in the cult classic film Donnie Darko.
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She was listed as one of twelve "Promising New Actors of 1990" in John Willis' Screen World, Vol. 42.
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In 1981, Mary received an Obie award for her performance in Emily Mann's Still Life.
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In 1997, she starred in Two Small Voices with Gail O'Grady for Lifetime Television.
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Her height is 5'6".
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She once was a cheerleader and synchronized swimmer.
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She began acting as a college student at the State University of New York at Fredonia.
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In 1982 she made her TV-movie debut with a small role in Money on the Side.
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She began teaching drama at Vassar College summer theater. After this she continued teaching at New York Stage and Film Company.
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She made her New York theater debut in Sam Shepard's Pulitzer Prize-winning Buried Child (1978-79).
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She made her big screen debut in the movie Garbo Talks (1984).
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She was raised in Ithaca, New York.
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She met her husband, fellow actor Randle Mell, in 1986. The two appeared together in the film Grand Canyon.
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Mary and her husband, Randle Mell, have two children, Olivia and Michael.
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Mary has three sisters and one brother.
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She had her screen debut in the 1980's soap As the World Turns. She played Claudia Colfax in this series.
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Mary McDonnell: (about the film Donnie Darko) When I got the script, I'd read ten pages, then walk around the house – the top floor of my house; I don't have a big house – and when I finished it, I started crying. And I thought, "Damn, I have to do another film for no money!" And I told Randall [her husband] I had to do it, and he said, "Are you sure?" I had to leave while we were on vacation. I had to leave my family at the lake. But I had to do the film.
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Mary McDonnell: I find it interesting how people emerge at different points in their life given a project everyone will see.
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Mary McDonnell: A lot of actors in New York who do remarkable works on the stage do soap work to maintain their lives.
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Mary McDonnell: I never spent that much time with sci-fi, though I was quite taken with the Dune books. I think such fictional places are a world that is very real to me -- perhaps that's why I don't read a lot of it. I'm thrilled to be more attached to it, because I'm quite taken with it when I watch it.
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