elcome to Mary McDonnell Vault, your online resource dedicated to actress Mary McDonnell. You better know Mary for her role as Captain Sharon Raydor for the TNT crime series The Closer & Major Crimes. But she also did others like Battlestar Galactica, Independence Day, Donnie Darko, Dances with Wolves, Sneakers and many others. Site is comprehensive of a big photogallery with events, photoshoots, magazines, stills, an extensive press library to collect all the articles and interviews on her and a video gallery section for recorded interviews, sneak peeks and trailers of her projects. We claim no rights to know her personally and it's absolutely respectful of her privacy and paparazzi-free!!!

Archive for the 'Interviews' Category


January 25, 2018   Articles, Interviews, Magazines

In these quite times from news and photos I love finding old stuff that can be added to the gallery, and so is the case for this magazine scan from Parade from March 1993. To simplify the reading for everyone I have transcribed the interview in our press archive. Magazines & Scans > 1993 > […]


January 15, 2018   Articles, Interviews

“Major Crimes” star Mary McDonnell shares with Variety her thoughts on the show’s final season, which saw her character, Sharon Raydor, killed off. I have been watching, reading and listening to the fans’ reactions to Sharon’s death, and it’s taken me a while to find the essence of my experience. I have been approached by several journalists, but […]


December 16, 2017   Articles, Interviews, Major Crimes, Movies

When viewers first met Sharon Raydor (Mary McDonnell), she was an antogonist, not the leading lady. Tasked with investigating officers and even auditing the Major Crimesdivision on “The Closer,” the Warner Bros. crime drama for TNT starring Kyra Sedgwick, the intense law enforcement professional spent the better part of four years in that role. But something […]


November 29, 2017   Behinds, Interviews, Major Crimes, Movies, Videos

KTLA’s Doug Kolk was on the set of Major Crimes for season 6 (The Final Season ) just in time for a big wedding scene. Mary McDonnell’s character “Commander Sharon Raydor” and Tony Denison “Lt. Andy Flynn” are getting married. Major Crimes > Season 6 > Behind The Scenes > KTLA Is On The Set […]



The addition of DVDs extras goes on and today it’s Season 2 turn. Just two interviews actually, since we had already the Deleted Scenes, but it’s all good to hear Mary talking about Sharon and her excitement to discover more of her intimate life other than her (at time) husband. Major Crimes > Season 2 […]


July 25, 2017   Appereances, Interviews

Take a look at the panel of Battlestar Galactica during Comic-Con 2017.



ATXFestival account has started to upload panels. Take a look at screencaptures and the clip from their youtube channel uploaded to the site. Indeed one of the most interesting panels I heard that weekend! Really inspiring women. Public Appereances > 2017 > Jun 09: ATX Festival – “Complex Not Complicated: A Look At A Woman’s […]