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| 3 | ->''"Actors are part of a certain percentage of people on this planet who have an emotional vocabulary as a primary experience. It's as if their life is experienced emotionally and then that is translated intellectually or conceptually into the performance."'' |
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| 5 | Mary Eileen [=McDonnell=] (born April 28, 1952 in Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania) rose to fame as Stands-with-a-Fist in ''Film/DancesWithWolves'' opposite Creator/KevinCostner, a role that earned the actress her first [[UsefulNotes/AcademyAward Oscar]] nod. She went on to give acclaimed performances in both film and television, including ''Passion Fish'', ''{{Film/Sneakers}}'', ''Film/IndependenceDay'', ''Film/{{Mumford}}'', ''Film/DonnieDarko'', ''Film/MarginCall'', and ''Series/{{ER}}''. |
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| 7 | In 2003, however, she became a household name as [[OurPresidentsAreDifferent President Laura Roslin]] in ''Series/BattlestarGalactica2003''. Thanks to her talent for simultaneously portraying iron strength and heartbreaking vulnerability, [=McDonnell=] became one of the show's best-loved characters and a pillar of the series. Furthermore, her genuine, believable chemistry with Creator/EdwardJamesOlmos resulted in an on-screen romance between Laura Roslin and William Adama that has been hailed as one of the greatest in television history. When not even Website/TelevisionWithoutPity can bring itself to snark at you... well. |
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| 9 | Since ''Battlestar Galactica'' finished, her most notable role has been as the cool, collected Captain Sharon Raydor, head of the Force Investigation Division, on Creator/{{TNT}}'s crime drama ''Series/TheCloser''. She earned her PromotionToOpeningTitles in season 7, and went on to take increasingly prominent role in the storyline - to put it mildly. |
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| 11 | She started off in ''The Closer'' pretty much as a walk-on role in Season 5, and two years later, she took the helm of the Major Case Squad in a {{spinoff}} titled ''Series/MajorCrimes.'' She's just that good. |
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| 13 | She is also noted as one of the nicest, most grounded people in Hollywood, and is highly unlikely to [[ThrownOutTheAirlock airlock]] [[Series/BattlestarGalactica2003 anybody]]. |
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