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!!!

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This is nine years check point, nine wonderful years. We’ve had fun, we suffered through hard times, characters loss and still stayed strong together for 9 years on here. THANK YOU, from the bottom of my heart. At this point you should know I’ve gifts for this yearly occasion and this is something I’ve been […]


August 31, 2023   Site Maintenance

Hello, and welcome back to Version #7 of Mary McDonnell Vault For a while now the idea of changing themes has been circling into my head and I wanted to go the most simple possible keeping it classy – just like Mary is – but effective. Hopefully I achieved it!


December 29, 2021   Site Maintenance

Today’s gift is more for me than you probably, it was something I wished to do for a while. Granted that the previous layouts, j’adore, they came out as beautiful as they were from a long time of emotional instability which brought me to follow Carrie Fisher motto and taking my broken heart to put […]



SEVEN YEARS. People, it’s been seven years: December 2014. Time flies so fast when you have fun and look how far it went from then. We started with barely 20k files in gallery and seven years after we are just a little bit away from 100k. And so many followers later here we are, as […]


April 28, 2021   Site Maintenance

“ We turn not older with years, but newer every day. ” Emily Dickinson said it right. With every new year passing, our beautiful Goddess of Acting becomes newer and always more beautiful and shining. 100 of these days (yeah I have hopes for Mary to live a little over the century) and many more […]


April 28, 2020   Site Maintenance

Another year has passed and the birthday of our precious lady Mary McDonnell has come again. The current situation makes it difficult, many birthdays can’t be celebrated big, but the spirit is there. So join me in wishing Mary a very happy birthday, full of love and joy with her beloved ones. May this life […]


April 28, 2019   Site Maintenance

Yes, another year the earth rounded on itself and around the sun and we arrived to Mary McDonnell’s birthday! Mary, every year passing you become more beautiful, wise and inspiring to a whole generation of both young and older women (a few guys too!) fanart created by IlariaSco_ And in light of this inspiration, we […]