Personal Info
Birth date
1961-05-04 (64 Years)
Gender
Female
Known for
Acting
Place of birth
Van Nuys, California, USA
Also known as
Mary Elizabeth McDonough
Mary McDonough
Mary Elizabeth McDonough
Biography
Mary Elizabeth McDonough was born on May 4, 1961 in Van Nuys, California, USA as Mary Elizabeth McDonough. She is an actress and writer, known for Mortuary (1983), The Waltons (1972) and The West Wing (1999). She has been married to Don since June 4, 2011. She was previously married to Rob Wickstrom.
Filmography
The West Wing
8.3
Overview:
The West Wing provides a glimpse into presidential politics in the nation's capital as it tells the stories of the members of a fictional presidential administration. These interesting characters have humor and dedication that touches the heart while the politics that they discuss touch on everyday life.The Waltons
7.129
Overview:
The Waltons live their life in a rural Virginia community during the Great Depression and World War II.Diagnosis: Murder
7.071
Overview:
Dr. Mark Sloan is a good-natured, offbeat physician who is called upon to solve murders.ER
7.828
Overview:
ER explores the inner workings of an urban teaching hospital and the critical issues faced by the dedicated physicians and staff of its overburdened emergency room.Dinah!
6.667
Overview:
Dinah's show premiered 9 September 1974 and continued through to 4 September 1981. She started out the 70's with Dinah's Place which usually featured one guest and was more of a home oriented show about cooking, crafts and occasionally music. This format lasted until May of 1974. When the show came back in October of 1974 the format had changed drastically to a variety talk show which was called Dinah. and went on until 1981. This show was also known as "Dinah and Friends" during the summer of 1976.The New Adventures of Old Christine
7.032
Overview:
Single working mom Christine Campbell has just learned that her ex is dating a much younger woman with the same first name. To avoid any confusion, the new girlfriend is dubbed New Christine, which leaves her with the unfortunate nickname Old Christine.Will & Grace
6.853
Overview:
Will Truman and Grace Adler are best friends living in New York, and when Grace's engagement falls apart, she moves in with Will. Together, along with their friends, they go through the trials of dating, sex, relationships and their careers, butting heads at times but ultimately supporting one another while exchanging plenty of witty banter along the way.The Love Boat
6.261
Overview:
Passengers who search for romantic nights aboard a beautiful ship travelling to tropical or mysterious countries, decide to pass their vacation aboard the "Love Boat", where Gopher, Dr. Bricker, Isaac, Julie, and Captain Stubing try their best to please them, and sometimes help them fall in love. Things are not always so easy, but in the end, love wins.The Pretender
7.4
Overview:
Raised in a secret facility built for experimenting on children, Jarod is a genius who can master any profession and become anyone he has to be. When he realizes as an adult that he's actually a prisoner and his captors are not as benevolent as he's been told, he breaks out. While trying to find his real identity, Jarod helps those he encounters and tries to avoid the woman sent to retrieve him.The Division
7
Overview:
The Division is an American crime drama television series created by Deborah Joy LeVine and starring Bonnie Bedelia. The series focused on a team of women police officers in the San Francisco Police Department. The series premiered on Lifetime on January 7, 2001 and ended on June 28, 2004 after 88 episodes.Ally McBeal
6.6
Overview:
Ally McBeal is a young lawyer working at the Boston law firm Cage and Fish. Ally's lives and loves are eccentric, humorous, dramatic with an incredibly overactive imagination that's working overtime!The Secret World of Alex Mack
7.8
Overview:
The Secret World of Alex Mack is an American television series that ran on Nickelodeon from October 8, 1994 to January 15, 1998, replacing Clarissa Explains It All on the SNICK line-up. It also aired on YTV in Canada and NHK in Japan, and was a popular staple in the children's weekday line-up for much of the mid-to-late 1990s on the Australian Broadcasting Corporation. Repeats of the series aired in 2003 on The N, but it was soon replaced there. The series was produced by Thomas Lynch and John Lynch of Lynch Entertainment, produced by RHI Entertainment, Hallmark Entertainment and Nickelodeon Productions and was co-created by Tom Lynch and Ken Lipman. For home video releases, it was released under the Hallmark Home Entertainment label, making it the first Nickelodeon show not to be released by Paramount Home Video or Sony Wonder.TV total
6.208
Overview:
TV total is a German late-night television comedy talk show. The set of TV total includes a floating interview stage that can be moved from one studio corner to the other. The show featured buttons with sounds and clips before Craig Ferguson's The Late Late Show.Mom
5.304
Overview:
During a time when the city of Los Angeles is terrorized by animal attack style murders, a kindly elderly lady provides a nomad with room and board. It turns out that he is a werewolf and is responsible for the recent killings. He bites the elderly woman, turning her into a hungry werewolf. Now her adult son must try to prevent the both of them from doing any more harm.Mortuary
5.3
Overview:
A young woman investigates the seemingly accidental death of her father, revealing many unsettling secrets and putting her in mortal danger.The Homecoming: A Christmas Story
7.194
Overview:
It's Christmas Eve, early 1930s on Walton's Mountain. As the family prepares for the holiday, they anxiously await Pa's return home from his job in the city some 50 miles away. He is late, and Ma and the grandparents hear on the radio a report of a bus accident that worries them. Oldest son John-Boy must step up to help grandfather cut down a Christmas tree, and upon learning the concern about Daddy sets out to find him.Holiday Touchdown: A Chiefs Love Story
6.783
Overview:
Alana Higman, a die-hard Kansas City Chiefs fan, and her family are competing to win the team's Fan of the Year contest, in a process judged by the director of fan engagement Derrick. As the pair spends time together, it's clear there's a spark between them. But when her grandfather's vintage Chiefs good luck winter hat goes missing, Alana begins to doubt everything she believed about fate, destiny and even questions her future with Derrick.A Biltmore Christmas
7.2
Overview:
Lucy is hired to write the script for a remake of a holiday movie. She joins a tour of the grounds and when she knocks an hourglass over, she finds herself transported back in time to 1946.Lake Effects
4.05
Overview:
After the loss of their father, two estranged sisters reunite with their mother at their enchanting family lake house and find that the secret to overcoming tragedy and rebuilding hope lies in their ability to look deeper at themselves.A Walton Wedding
NYR
Overview:
In 1964, John-Boy Walton is planning his wedding to Janet Gilchrist, the editor of a New York fashion magazine and the daughter of a diplomat. The two of them plan a small wedding and he invites the family and friends from Walton's Mountain to come to New York for the celebration. However, Janet's Aunt Flo has other ideas and begins to take over their wedding preparations. Added to the wedding plan stress, John-Boy is also trying to write an article about his Grandma, but decides that he needs to go home to escape the wedding preparations, as well as to reunite with his grandmother and fill in some gaps leaving Janet in New York trying to prevent her wedding from getting out of hand. But she too leaves the city and heads for Walton's Mountain to plan their wedding there.Where There's a Will
6.7
Overview:
A hapless grifter stands to inherit a small fortune from his estranged grandmother if he travels to Harmony, Texas to live with her. Instead of a short road to easy money, he finds a soft spot in his heart for the little town and unconditional love from his only living relative.Heaven Sent
4.3
Overview:
Eddie, a fourteen-year-old juvenile delinquent of sorts, collides with a car during a petty theft and dies in the hospital. Due to some confusion in heaven, however, he is given three days to clean up his life with the help of a beginner angel - and save his mom.The Other Victim
NYR
Overview:
After his wife is raped, a man struggles to find ways to express the anger and helplessness which the crime has instilled in him.Midnight Offerings
5.8
Overview:
Vivian has magic powers. She doesn't hesitate to save her boyfriend David from failing in school by murdering teachers. However, David has gotten tired of her and is putting his charm on a new girl in school, Robin. Robin discovers that she also has magic powers, and before long the two girls clash violently.Christmas on Honeysuckle Lane
5.9
Overview:
Emma Reynolds returns to Oliver's Well to celebrate Christmas for the last time with her siblings in the home they grew up in. After their parents recently passed, the siblings reluctantly agree to sell the family home on Honeysuckle Lane after the New Year, leaving Emma in charge of its belongings. While antiques expert Morgan Shelby appraises Emma's mother's collection, they find a hidden surprise in an antique desk that takes them on a journey to discover the power of love and family during the holidays.Snowballing
2
Overview:
Bus loads of teenagers arrive to the ski resort. Each one is eager to get out on the slopes to ski and score. One problem; the owner has all the prices jacked up, secretly ripping people for the last two years he has been in charge. The police don't do anything because the Sheriff is in on the cover-up. The teens feel their only chance to even the score is at a skiing tournament where the winner is picked to in a raffle to win a bunch of prizes.Funland
4
Overview:
When a mob family takes over an amusement park after the owner dies under mysterious circumstances, the recently-fired clown mascot seeks vengeance for the loss of his job.A Wedding on Waltons Mountain
5
Overview:
Erin Walton is considering marrying her boyfriend Paul but her old boyfriend Ashley, who left for the war and married someone else, lived through his wife's death and would like to get Erin back, but Paul is not going to give her up so easily. Also Mary Ellen's boyfriend Jonesy who's a veterinarian is trying to establish a practice but everybody doesn't think he is competent. And Ben who has been minding the lumber business while their father's with their ailing mother in Arizona is having some problems and everybody's worried that he's digging himself a hole that he might not get out of.Acting
TBAThe Contested Plains as Lydia German
2024Holiday Touchdown: A Chiefs Love Story as Carole
2023A Biltmore Christmas as Director
2018Christmas on Honeysuckle Lane as Caroline Reynolds
2012Lake Effects as Elizabeth
2007Christmas at Cadillac Jack's as Madge
2006Where There's a Will as Dr. Burton
2006The New Adventures of Old Christine (8 Episodes) as Mrs. Wilhoite
2002American Dreams (1 Episode) as Unknown
2001The Division (1 Episode) as Mrs. Berwin
1999The West Wing (1 Episode) as Beth
1999TV total (1 Episode) as Self
1998Will & Grace (2 Episodes) as Mom
1997Ally McBeal (1 Episode) as Attorney Gloria Stepp
1997A Walton Easter as Erin Walton Northridge
1996The Pretender (1 Episode) as Mrs. Falk
1995A Walton Wedding as Erin Walton Northridge
1994The Secret World of Alex Mack (1 Episode) as Betsy Phillips
1994ER (1 Episode) as Jean Twomey
1994Heaven Sent as Kathy Chandler
1993Diagnosis: Murder (1 Episode) as Colleen Akins
1990Mom as Alice
1989The Making of Me as Wife/Mother
1987Funland as Kristin Cumming
1986Impure Thoughts as Sister Juliet
1984Snowballing as Karen
1982A Day for Thanks on Waltons Mountain as Erin Walton Northridge
1982Mortuary as Christie Parson
1982Mother's Day on Waltons Mountain as Erin Walton
1982A Wedding on Waltons Mountain as Erin Walton
1981The Other Victim as Zemack's Girlfriend
1981Lovely But Deadly as Denise
1981Midnight Offerings as Robin Prentiss
1977The Love Boat (1, 1 Episode) as Abby Foster, Laura Barber
1974Dinah! (1 Episode) as Self
1972The Waltons (210 Episodes) as Erin Walton
1971The Homecoming: A Christmas Story as Erin Walton