Mary discusses Major Crimes, along with Dances With Wolves in this new interview with Zap2It.

Mary McDonnell is grateful to continue playing a police captain, since she knows she could have been cast as frontier women for a long time.

The actress’ Oscar-nominated breakthrough part, as Stands With a Fist in Kevin Costner‘s award-winning 1990 movie “Dances With Wolves,” planted a certain image of her in many minds. However, she’s displayed variety in projects from “Independence Day” to Syfy’s reboot of “Battlestar Galactica,” and she’ll carry her current role as Captain Sharon Raydor on TNT’s Monday drama “The Closer” into the network’s “Major Crimes” spinoff starting Monday, Aug. 13.

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