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Mary Eileen McDonnell
title: Mary McDonnell text: of "Execution of Justice", "The Heidi Chronicles", and "Summer and Smoke". After more than 21 years of theater and television work, McDonnell made her film breakthrough in 1990 as Stands With A Fist, the daughter of American settlers raised by Sioux Indians, in Kevin Costner's "Dances with Wolves". Portraying the adopted daughter of Graham Greene's character Kicking Bird, McDonnell, then 37, was only ten months younger than Greene and less than two years younger than Tantoo Cardinal, who played Black Shawl, her adoptive mother. She was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for the role. McDonnell's role title: Mary McDonnell text: Mary McDonnell Mary Eileen McDonnell (born April 28, 1952) is an American film, stage, and television actress. She received Academy Award nominations for her roles as Stands With A Fist in "Dances with Wolves" and May-Alice Culhane in "Passion Fish". McDonnell is well known for her performances as President Laura Roslin in "Battlestar Galactica", the First Lady in "Independence Day", and Rose in "Donnie Darko". She was featured as Captain Sharon Raydor during seasons 5–7 of the TNT series "The Closer" and starred as Commander Sharon Raydor in the spin-off series "Major Crimes" on the same network. McDonnell was born title: Mary McDonnell text: Mell and Olivia Mell. Mary McDonnell Mary Eileen McDonnell (born April 28, 1952) is an American film, stage, and television actress. She received Academy Award nominations for her roles as Stands With A Fist in "Dances with Wolves" and May-Alice Culhane in "Passion Fish". McDonnell is well known for her performances as President Laura Roslin in "Battlestar Galactica", the First Lady in "Independence Day", and Rose in "Donnie Darko". She was featured as Captain Sharon Raydor during seasons 5–7 of the TNT series "The Closer" and starred as Commander Sharon Raydor in the spin-off series "Major Crimes" on the same title: Rodney A. Grant text: Rodney A. Grant Rodney Arnold Grant (born March 9, 1959) is an American actor. He is best known for his role as "Wind In His Hair" (Lakota: "Pȟehíŋ Otȟáte") in the 1990 film "Dances with Wolves". Grant, a Native American, was raised on the Omaha Reservation in Macy, Nebraska. After his biological parents abandoned him, his grandparents raised him from six months of age, until 1982. Besides "Dances with Wolves", he has also appeared in films such as "Ghosts of Mars", "Wild Wild West", "", "", "Wagons East!", "The Substitute", "War Party", and "Powwow Highway". He portrayed "Chingachgook" in the title: Dances with Wolves text: it went unsold in the mid-1980s. However, Kevin Costner had starred in Blake's only previous film, "Stacy's Knights" (1983), and encouraged Blake in early 1986 to turn the Western screenplay into a novel to improve its chances of being produced. The novel was rejected by numerous publishers but finally published in paperback in 1988. The rights were purchased by Costner, with an eye on directing it. Actual production lasted for four months, from July 18 to November 23, 1989. Most of the movie was filmed on location in South Dakota, mainly on private ranches near Pierre and Rapid City, with