# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/randle-mell
# Generated: 2026-08-13T12:06:24.328Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/randle-mell"
name: "Randle Mell"
slug: "randle-mell"
description: "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."
tagline: "American actor"
image: "https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w500/8pwFRQHXBpTecmymdBN4vTkA2NW.jpg"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Actors"
  slug: "actors"
profileType:
  name: "Actor"
  slug: "actor"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q33999"
birthDate: "1951-12-28"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           44.09
  momentum:             18.85922330097087
  historical:           3.953889333333333
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     30
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "BREAKOUT"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0577870/"
    handle:    "nm0577870"
sources:
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Randle_Mell"
    title: "Randle Mell"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Randle_Mell"
    title: "Randle Mell"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Randle_Mell"
    title: "Randle Mell"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q2455455"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"
  - url: "https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1218048"
    title: "Randle Mell"
    type:  "DATABASE"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-relations