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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.
Nov 21, 1990 · Mary McDonnell stars as Stands With A Fist, a white woman raised by the Sioux tribe, in this epic western directed by and starring Kevin Costner. The film won seven Oscars and is widely praised for its authentic portrayal of the Native American culture and the frontier life.
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- Adventure, Drama, Western
- Kevin Costner
- 1990-11-21
Mary McDonnell plays Stands With A Fist, a Lakota woman who befriends John Dunbar, the main character of Dances with Wolves (1990). See her photos, quotes, and trivia on IMDb.
Eventually the white woman, Stands With A Fist ( Mary McDonnell ), who was rescued and adopted as a small child by Kicking Bird after her family was killed in a Pawnee raid, begins to act as a translator.
Kevin Costner as Lt. John J. Dunbar/Dances with Wolves (Lakota: Šuŋgmánitu Tȟáŋka Ób Wačhí) Mary McDonnell as Stands with a Fist (Napépȟeča Nážiŋ Wiŋ)/Christine Gunther Annie Costner (Costner's real-life daughter) plays young Christine Gunther; Graham Greene as Kicking Bird (Ziŋtká Nagwáka)
- Kevin Costner nearly didn’t direct ‘Dances With Wolves’ Kevin Costner was a key creative influence behind the project. But he didn’t plan on sitting in the director’s chair.
- It was a book by Costner’s old acting school buddy. Dances With Wolves came out as a novel first. Blake (pictured on the left) had written a “spec script” in the 1980s.
- Costner rode his pal to finish it. Writer Michael Blake and Costner were old pals. They first met at acting school and started out together. So when Blake created the epic tale of Dances With Wolves, it was like shooting fish in a barrel, right?
- Costner paid for it himself. Dances With Wolves cost a relatively modest $22 million. Unfortunately, it was budgeted at $15 million. The tally included “An animatronic bison costing $250,000,” as noted by Biography.
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Jun 8, 2020 · Receiving her most prominent film credit to date was Mary McDonnell, as the Sioux-raised Stands With a Fist. Costner, Greene and McDonnell (who was just a little younger than Greene and...
