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!!!

August 25, 2015   News & Announcements

Join us Monday, November 2 at 7PM as we gather to celebrate the best of Philadelphia theatre at the 2015 Barrymore Awards Ceremony at the Merriam Theater. Outstanding Leading Actress in a Play Carla Belver (The Glass Menagerie, Act II Playhouse) Kim Carson (Nora, Delaware Theatre Company) Melanye Finister (Fences, People’s Light) Eleanor Handley (Lost […]


March 6, 2015   Behinds, Stages, The Cherry Orchard

I found more rehearsal photos of Mary in The Cherry Orchard. They are so pretty! Enjoy them! Gallery links: Stage Productions > The Cherry Orchard > Rehearsal – January 22, 2015 Stage Productions > The Cherry Orchard > Rehearsal – February 10, 2015


February 28, 2015   Articles, Stages, The Cherry Orchard

Completed in 1904, THE CHERRY ORCHARD, Anton Chekhov’s final dramatic work, is the most often staged of all Russian plays worldwide, and its production at People’s Light & Theatre Company (adaptation by Emily Mann) affirms why. Combining insightful socio-cultural farce with gripping human pathos, its dual nature as comedy and tragedy is captured in spades […]


February 23, 2015   Stages, Stills, The Cherry Orchard

From Mary’s words The Cherry Orchard is giving a good succeess and we couldn’t be happier because both she and her daughter deserves this all. Appereantly people are facing bad weather to see them, and I’m so very much thrilled to find little glimpse of it in stills. Today I add one new still to […]


February 14, 2015   Articles, Interviews, Stages, The Cherry Orchard

The Oscar-nominated actress stars with David Strathairn in ‘The Cherry Orchard.’ Stands With a Fist is now a Russian aristocrat. Mary McDonnell first rose to fame playing the Anglo-raised-by-Indians character inDances With Wolves, the 1990 film that earned her Academy Award and Golden Globe nominations. This month, McDonnell takes the stage at Malvern’s People’s Light […]


February 14, 2015   Stages, Stills, The Cherry Orchard

The first image of Mary in costumed surfaced the web. She’s so beautiful! Enjoy it in our gallery. Gallery link: Stage Productions > The Cherry Orchard > Promotional Stills


February 5, 2015   Articles, Interviews, Stages, The Cherry Orchard

SO, A COUPLE of Academy Award nominees are teaming up to do Anton Chekhov’s “The Cherry Orchard.” Big deal, right? You can’t swing a rolled-up Playbill in New York’s theater district without hitting some big-time movie or TV star taking a huge pay cut to hit the boards. (Paging Bradley “Elephant Man” Cooper!) But when […]