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!!!


Happy #MaryMonday my friends. Here is for today’s update one of my favorite movies and roles of Mary: First Lady Marilyn Whitmore in Independence Day from 1996. Enjoy HD screencaptures from bluray disc added to the gallery and 3 clips from the movie. The aliens are coming and their goal is to invade and destroy […]


November 21, 2016   Movies, Screencaptures, Videos, Woman Undone

Happy #MaryMonday dear fans, here is over 1000 screencaptures from 1996 movie Woman Undone in which Mary played Teri Hansen. As always there have been also addition of few clips. Take a look! Teri Hansen is found near a burnt car with the corpse of her husband, Allan, in it. The body has bullet wounds, […]


November 7, 2016   Movies, Passion Fish, Screencaptures, Videos

Happy #MaryMonday dear fans, here is over 2000 screencaptures and 8 clips from the movie Passion Fish, in which Mary played May-Alice Culhane. May-Alice Culhane was a successful soap opera star, but a car accident has left her bound to a wheelchair. She returns to her now-empty family home in the bayous of Louisiana which […]


October 27, 2016   Magazines

15 years ago (precisely October 26) Donnie Darko premiered in the US. Empire UK dediced to celebrate the event including a full excerpt in their December issue (cover star Eddie Redmayne for Fantastic Beasts). I grabbed a Digital copy and added HQ scans to the gallery. Take a look! Magazine & Scans > 2016 > […]


July 23, 2016   News & Announcements

The article was found by Renée Whitfield and Christine Rogers who shared on twitter with us and with the help of Sara Christelle, who guided me through the articulated phrasing of french language, I translated this into english for you. Very well known to the fans of Battlestar Galactica, Mary McDonnell is filling out her […]



Celebrating the awesome achievement of 900 likes on facebook (+2 in the meantime), as my gift of thanks to you here is a tiny update with Mary’s role in 12 Angry Men as the judge. Her role is actually very small and it’s just in the beginning of the movie, the movie that includes in […]



Take a look in the gallery and media archive for screencaptures and clips of Blue Chips, the movie from 1994 in which Mary played Jenny Bell. MM: Well, there’s so many memories from that, but the one that always pops into my mind right away is standing on two or three apple boxes to be […]