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!!!

As the World Turns


Character: Claudia Colfax

Directed by: Jennifer Pepperman, Michael Eilbaum

Written by: Jean Passanante, Judy Tate, Melissa Salmons

Produced by: Christopher Goutman, Vivian Gundaker

Cast Members: Colleen Zenk, Kelley Menighan Hensley, Don Hastings, Jon Hensley, Elizabeth Hubbard, Eileen Fulton, Ellen Dolan, Kathryn Hays, Marie Masters, Scott Holmes, Helen Wagner, Kathleen Widdoes, Terri Conn, Tamara Tunie, Larry Bryggman

Released date: January 1980

Episode(s) Number: Unknown Episodes

Genre: Drama, Romance

Set in the fictional town of Oakdale, this long-running serial focuses on the relationships and difficulties of its inhabitants.

In Mary’s words…

Oh, my God! Okay, here it is: I’m going to try to do word association. I’m standing in front of a wall, a piece of a wall, with a pay phone on every episode I played, putting a dime or a quarter or something into the phone and calling the character who was the lead in the show about her baby, who I was secretly raising. But I had a boyfriend who was beating me up, so I was always in tears or, like, bruised. That’s what I remember. The other thing I remember about it was being jubilant, because I was making money, and I could actually take my boyfriend at the time out to dinner. [from “Mary McDonnell on Battlestar Galactica and going mute in front of Robert Redford by Will Harris]

Script developed by Never Enough Design