Mary McDonnell

Personal context

Summary

Mary McDonnell is an actor known for Dances with Wolves, Passion Fish, Battlestar Galactica, and The Closer. Her work includes complex women in positions of authority, and she has said television was still learning to portray women in power truthfully. In discussing Gloria Steinem, whom she portrayed on stage, McDonnell described feminism as equality between the sexes. No public record of party campaigning, DEI affiliations, or broader political activism is evident.