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- Two decades later, she landed her breakthrough film role, in Kevin Costner 's Dances with Wolves (1990), playing "Stands with a Fist", a white woman raised by the Sioux Indians. She earned her first Academy Award nomination for the role.
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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.
She was the first actor offered the role by creator Ronald D. Moore. Plays the First Lady during a devastating attack by aliens in Independence Day (1996), and the President after a devastating attack by robots in Battlestar Galactica (2004). After graduation, she moved to New York City.
- Actress, Soundtrack
- April 28, 1952
May 12, 1991 · The 37-year-old actress won acclaim and an Oscar nomination for her performance in Kevin Costner’s “Dances With Wolves,” as Stands With a Fist, a white woman raised by the Sioux. Now McDonnell is...
- Writer
Nov 21, 2015 · When “Dances” took off, he received upwards of $40 million in profit and the film not only revived the Western — Clint Eastwood’s “Unforgiven” would also win Best Picture and Best Director in 1992 — but it became by far the most successful Western ever made.
In 1981, she won an Obie Award for Best Actress for her role in the play Still Life, and the next year, she played the role of Terri in the television movie Money on the Side, about three middle-class housewives who are having money problems and join a prostitution ring.
Aug 24, 2021 · Mary McDonnell played Stands With A Fist, the character that Costner’s Dunbar falls in love with. The character was a white woman and adopted Sioux. Michael Blake based her on a real-life figure, Cynthia Ann Parker.
Nov 17, 1990 · The New York-based stage actress plays Stands With a Fist, a white woman, raised by the Sioux after her family had been massacred by another tribe, who falls in love with Lt. John Dunbar (Costner)....
