Article: `Wolves' co-star shines in fine pioneer drama

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Mary McDonnell CarlRandle Mell IvarJohn Carpenter MarieJennifer Rohn EmilNeil Maffin WTTW-Channel 11, 9 to 11 tonight.

Mary McDonnell has become the leading lady of the Great Plains.

In Kevin Costner's "Dances with Wolves," McDonnell earned an Academy Award nomination as best supporting actress for her fierce and passionate performance as Stands with a Fist, a white woman living with a Sioux tribe in the Dakota Territory during the 1860s.

The New York stage actress is even more impressive as a Swedish immigrant who becomes a successful Nebraska farmer during the late 1800s in "O Pioneers!" The outstanding ...

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