Mary Margaret Albright is a fictional character who was played by former SNL cast member Jane Curtin in the American situation comedy 3rd Rock from the Sun.

[2] Curtin was recruited to play Mary by friend Bonnie Turner after another actress was deemed too sweet for the part.

"[3] Curtin had earlier worked with Bonnie and Terry Turner on Saturday Night Live and in the 1993 film Coneheads.

She understands the role of a straight man; however, she also has a terrific streak of wildness herself so she creates this wonderful repressed character who occasionally spins out just as much as the aliens do.

"[5] Mary works as a professor of Anthropology at the fictional Pendelton State University in Rutherford, Ohio.

For approximately six months during the sitcom's 4th season, Mary served as dean of Pendleton's School of Arts and Sciences.

In one episode, Dick marries Renata, in order to divorce her and get her to promise she will not build a library at Pendelton that will cast a shadow in Mary's office.

This completely freaks out the family; to this end Sally and Harry take Roy out a cornfield to "killroy" as the plan is called.

As seen in "The Dicks They Are A'Changin'", Mary was a part of the 1960s counterculture in her youth (flashbacks showed her dressed in hippie garb), though she mentions she "never made it to Woodstock".