After a highly respected 20-year career on stage, actress Mary McDonnell broke into movie stardom as Stands With A Fist, the white woman raised by Native Americans in Kevin Costner’s Oscar-winning Western “Dances With Wolves” (1990). The role, which netted her an Academy Award nomination, and launched her long and impressive stint in features – where she played often complex and mature women in films like “Grand Canyon” (1991), “Passion Fish” (1992), “Independence Day” (1996) and “Donnie Darko” (2001). McDonnell alternated films with television in the late 1990s, before landing a cult hit with
