FrameThrower · Actors · Mary McDonnell
Mary McDonnell
5 films · 250 frames · top-billed in 2 · 1987–2011
Born 28 April 1952 · Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania, USA
Mary Eileen McDonnell is an American film, stage, and television actress. She received Academy Award nominations for her roles as Stands With A Fist in Dances With Wolves and May-Alice Culhane in Passion Fish. McDonnell is well known for her performances as President Laura Roslin in Battlestar Galactica, First Lady Marilyn Whitmore in Independence Day, and Rose in Donnie Darko. She was featured as Captain Sharon Raydor during seasons 5–7 of the TNT series The Closer and starred as Commander Sharon Raydor in the spin-off series Major Crimes on the same network. In 2023, she played Madeleine Usher in the miniseries The Fall of the House of Usher on Netflix.
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How their films are shot
Measured across 250 frames from the 5 films we hold. This is the look of the work Mary takes, not a claim about any single frame — we index the cast of a film, never the people in a shot.
Across the 5 films we hold, 49% of their frames are night, 47% low key — the look of the work Mary takes.
Time of day
Lighting
Shot size
Camera angle
Mood
Films in the library
Every poster opens that film — stills, cinematography notes and colour palette.
A reference database for filmmakers
FrameThrower is a fully machine-searchable film database and visual reference library — all 250 frames from Mary McDonnell's 5 films, and 5,000+ films besides, indexed frame by frame and readable by AI. Search it in plain language, from a reference image, or by colour; call it from an API, an MCP server or an SDK. It's the reference layer for making the next movie.