Talk about a prototypical power woman. Maybe it’s because she’s packing curves and protrusions sufficient to cow any man and bully any broad, but stage-trained actress Mary McDonnell projects a core confidence that has allowed her to be the only woman in cinema to portray both the first lady, in Independence Day (1996), and the president, on Battlestar Galactica. Mary brought strength and force of character to Stands with a Fist, the white woman who chose to live with Native Americans in Dances with Wolves (1990), and yet she is soft enough to flirt with flashing flesh as a bedridden actress in Passion Fish (1992) and as a battered-about adulteress in Woman Undone (1996). Range is the dominion of the dominant.