Born April 28, 1952· Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania, USA
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Raised in Ithaca after a childhood in Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania, Mary McDonnell honed her craft at SUNY Fredonia before launching a stage career that earned an Obie for Best Actress in 1981 and led to Broadway credits such as The Heidi Chronicles. Her screen breakthrough arrived with Kevin Costner’s Dances With Wolves, garnering an Oscar nomination, and she followed with a second nomination for P…
