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Mary McDonnell

1952 - Today

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Mary Eileen McDonnell (born April 28, 1952) 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. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Mary McDonnell has received more than 6,742,626 page views. Her biography is available in 44 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 41 in 2019). Mary McDonnell is the 1,018th most popular actor (up from 1,165th in 2019), the 1,786th most popular biography from United States (up from 2,083rd in 2019) and the 485th most popular American Actor.

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  • 6.7M

    Page Views (PV)

  • 64.47

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 44

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 3.23

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 4.70

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among ACTORS

Among actors, Mary McDonnell ranks 1,018 out of 13,578Before her are Helene Weigel, Sessue Hayakawa, Donna Reed, Kabir Bedi, Ian Somerhalder, and Sterling Hayden. After her are Djimon Hounsou, Lena Olin, Chadwick Boseman, Sydney Chaplin, Clara Bow, and Armen Dzhigarkhanyan.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1952, Mary McDonnell ranks 86Before her are Robin Hobb, Joe Strummer, Nicko McBrain, Ryū Murakami, Bülent Ersoy, and Stephen Lang. After her are Lee Soo-man, Haider al-Abadi, Amir Peretz, Vanderlei Luxemburgo, Frances Fisher, and Danilo Türk.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Mary McDonnell ranks 1,786 out of 20,380Before her are Ian Somerhalder (1978), Spiro Agnew (1918), Johnny Kitagawa (1931), Sterling Hayden (1916), Clark L. Hull (1884), and William Walker (1824). After her are Frank Oppenheimer (1912), Gregg Popovich (1949), James Oliver Curwood (1878), Chadwick Boseman (1977), Robert Smithson (1938), and Clara Bow (1905).

Among ACTORS In United States

Among actors born in United States, Mary McDonnell ranks 485Before her are June Carter Cash (1929), Paul Michael Glaser (1943), Eva Mendes (1974), Donna Reed (1921), Ian Somerhalder (1978), and Sterling Hayden (1916). After her are Chadwick Boseman (1977), Clara Bow (1905), Elizabeth Montgomery (1933), Jim Caviezel (1968), Bill Pullman (1953), and Billy Zane (1966).