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Kelly Macdonald
Macdonald at the 2007 New York Film Festival
Born	23 February 1976 (1976-02-23) (age 33) Glasgow, Scotland
Occupation	Actress
Years active	1996–present
Spouse(s)	Dougie Payne (2003–present)

Kelly Macdonald (born 23 February 1976(1976-02-23)) is a Scottish Emmy Award- and Screen Actors Guild Award-winning actress.

Contents 1 Early life 2 Career 3 Personal life 4 Filmography 5 Awards and nominations 6 References 7 External links

Early life

Macdonald was born in Glasgow, Scotland. Her mother was a garment industry sales executive.¹ Her parents divorced when she was young. She and her younger brother were raised by her mother on a council estate in the town of Newton Mearns. Macdonald attended Eastwood High School. Her family moved around frequently when she was a child.

Macdonald moved away from home when she was 17 years old. She took a college course in modern studies while living with a friend in Glasgow, but she soon dropped out of the class.

Career

Macdonald's career began while working as a barmaid.² She saw a leaflet advertising an open casting session for Trainspotting and decided to audition, successfully winning the part of Diane, the underage seductress to Ewan McGregor's Renton. Other roles include a reporter in The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy and an actress playing Peter Pan in Finding Neverland. She also had a major role in Robert Altman's British period piece Gosford Park, where she played a maid.

On television, her highest-profile roles have been in two BBC dramas, the Paul Abbott serial State of Play (2003) and the one-off Richard Curtis piece The Girl in the Café (2005). Both of these were directed by David Yates, and both also starred Bill Nighy. For her performance in The Girl in the Café, Macdonald was nominated for a Golden Globe in 2006, and won an Emmy.

Macdonald starred in the 2005 film Nanny McPhee, as the scullery maid Evangeline, and A Cock and Bull Story, where she plays the girlfriend of actor Steve Coogan's onscreen alter ego. In 2007, Macdonald was cast in the Coen Brothers' Academy Award-winning No Country for Old Men, in which she played the wife of the film's protagonist. Macdonald's agent originally wasn't sure she was right for the part, and Macdonald is reported as having to "fight for the role".³ Her persistence paid off, however, as she was nominated for a BAFTA for best supporting actress. In 2008, she played Dr. Paige Marshall in the film Choke, adapted by Clark Gregg from the 2001 Chuck Palahniuk novel.

Personal life

In August 2003, Macdonald married Travis bass player Dougie Payne. The couple lives in London. Their son, Freddie Peter Payne, was born on 9 March 2008.

Filmography

Film
Year	Film	Role	Other notes
1996	Trainspotting	Diane Coulston	Nominated for a Scottish BAFTA award
	Stella Does Tricks	Stella
1997	Dead Eye Dick	Wendy	Short film
1998	Cousin Bette	Hortense Hulot
	Elizabeth	Lettice Knollys
1999	Splendor	Mike
	Entropy	Pia
	The Loss of Sexual Innocence	Susan
	My Life So Far	Elspeth Pettigrew
2000	Two Family House	Mary O'Neary	Nominated for an Independent Spirit Award
	House!	Linda
	Some Voices	Laura
2001	Strictly Sinatra	Irene
	Gosford Park	Mary Maceachran	Satellite award with the rest of the cast Screen Actors Guild Award with the rest of the cast Broadcast film award with the rest of the cast FFCC award with the rest of the cast OFCS award with the rest of the cast Nominated: Empire Award Nominated: PFCS award with the rest of the cast
2003	Intermission	Deidre
2004	Finding Neverland	Peter Pan
2005	The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy	Reporter
	All the Invisible Children	Jonathan's wife	Segment: Jonathan
	Nanny McPhee	Evangeline
	Lassie	Jeanie
2006	A Cock and Bull Story	Jenny
2007	No Country for Old Men	Carla Jean Moss	Screen Actors Guild Award with the rest of the cast Nominated: BAFTA Nominated: OFCS Nominated: London Film Critics Choice Awards
2008	The Merry Gentleman	Kate Frazier
	Choke	Paige Marshall	Sundance Film Festival Award
2009	In the Electric Mist	Kelly Drummond
Television
Year	Title	Role	Notes
1996	Flowers of the Forest	Amy Ogilvie	BBC TV-Movie
1999	Tube Tales	Emma	Segment: Mr Cool
2003	Brush with Fate	Aletta Pieters	CBS TV-Movie
	State of Play	Della Smith
2005	Alias	Kiera MacLaine/Meghan Keene	Episode: Ice
	The Girl in the Café	Gina	BBC TV-Movie Emmy Award Nominated: Golden Globe
2009	Skellig	Louise

Awards and nominations

BAFTA Awards

• 2008: Nominated, "Best Supporting Actress" - No Country for Old Men

BAFTA Scotland Awards

• 1997: Nominated, "Best Film Actress" - Trainspotting

Broadcast Film Critics Association Awards

• 2002: "Best Acting Ensemble" - Gosford Park

Emmy Awards

• 2006: "Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Miniseries or a Movie" - The Girl in the Café

Empire Awards

• 2003: Nominated, "Best British Actress" - Gosford Park

Florida Film Critics Circle Awards

• 2002: "Best Ensemble Cast" - Gosford Park

Golden Globe Awards

• 2006: Nominated, "Best Performance by an Actress in a Mini-Series or a Motion Picture Made for Television" - The Girl in the Café

Independent Spirit Awards

• 2001: Nominated, "Best Female Lead" - Two Family House

London Film Critics Circle Awards

• 2008: "British Supporting Actress of the Year" - No Country for Old Men

Online Film Critics Society Awards

• 2002: "Best Ensemble" - Gosford Park
• 2008: Nominated, "Best Supporting Actress" - No Country for Old Men

Phoenix Film Critics Society Awards

• 2002: Nominated, "Best Acting Ensemble" - Gosford Park

Satellite Awards

• 2002: "Outstanding Motion Picture Ensemble" - Gosford Park

Screen Actors Guild Awards

• 2002: "Outstanding Performance by the Cast of a Theatrical Motion Picture" - Gosford Park
• 2008: "Outstanding Performance by a Cast in a Motion Picture" - No Country for Old Men

Sundance Film Festival

• 2008: "Special Jury Prize for Best Dramatic Film" - Choke

References

External links

• Kelly Macdonald at the Internet Movie Database
• Kelly Macdonald at the TCM Movie Database
• Kelly Macdonald at the British Film Institute's Screenonline
• Kelly Macdonald at Yahoo! Movies
• Kelly Macdonald in Skellig on Sky1, Easter 2009

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NAME	Macdonald, Kelly
ALTERNATIVE NAMES
SHORT DESCRIPTION	Scottish actress
DATE OF BIRTH	1976-02-23
PLACE OF BIRTH	Glasgow, Scotland
DATE OF DEATH
PLACE OF DEATH