
Kelly Macdonald
Biography
Kelly Macdonald (born 23 February 1976) is a Scottish actress. Known for her film and television performances, she has received various accolades, including a BAFTA Award, a Primetime Emmy Award, and four Screen Actors Guild Awards.
Macdonald made her film debut in Danny Boyle's Trainspotting (1996). She was nominated for the BAFTA Award for Best Actress in a Supporting Role for her role in the Coen brothers film No Country for Old Men (2007). During her career, she has taken roles in Elizabeth (1998), Gosford Park (2001), Intermission (2003), Nanny McPhee (2005), Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows – Part 2 (2011), Anna Karenina(2012), T2 Trainspotting (2017), and Operation Mincemeat (2021). She voiced Princess Merida in the Disney Pixar animated Brave (2012).
On television, she won the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Miniseries or a Movie for her role in the BBC One film The Girl in the Cafe (2005). She was further Emmy-nominated for portraying Margaret Thompson in the period crime drama series Boardwalk Empire (2010–2014). She also acted in Black Mirror's Hated in the Nation (2016), the limited series Giri/Haji (2019), and Line of Duty(2021).
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Known For
Acting History
2025
This Ordinary Thing as Voice
2025Dept. Q as Dr Rachel Irving
2024Royal Carols: Together at Christmas as Self
2024Star Wars: Skeleton Crew as Pokkit
2024The Radleys as Helen Radley
2023Typist Artist Pirate King as Sandra Panza
2022I Came By as Lizzie Nealey
2022Operation Mincemeat as Jean Leslie
2020Truth Seekers as JoJo 74
2020Dirt Music as Georgie
2019Giri/Haji as Sarah
2019The Victim as Anna Dean
2018Holmes & Watson as Mrs. Martha Hudson
2018Ralph Breaks the Internet as Merida (voice)
2018Angela Carter: Of Wolves & Women as Reader
2018Puzzle as Agnes
2018The Child in Time as Julie Lewis
2018Somebody Feed Phil as Self
2017Goodbye Christopher Robin as Olive Rand / Nou
2017T2 Trainspotting as Diane
2016The Journey Is the Destination as Duff
2016Swallows and Amazons as Mrs. Walker
2016Special Correspondents as Claire Maddox
2014The Final Shot: A Farewell to Boardwalk Empire as Self
2014Strap Hanging
2012Anna Karenina as Dolly
2012Line of Duty as DCI Jo Davidson
2012Brave as Merida (voice)
2011Black Mirror as Karin Parke
2011Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2 as Helena Ravenclaw
2011The Decoy Bride as Katie Meaghaid
2010Boardwalk Empire as Margaret Schroeder / Margaret Thompson
2009Skellig as Louise
2009In the Electric Mist as Kelly Drummond
2008Choke as Paige Marshall
2008Memories of "Trainspotting" as Self
2008The Merry Gentleman as Kate Frazier
2008No Country for Old Men: Josh Brolin's Unauthorized Behind the Scenes as Self
2007No Country for Old Men as Carla Jean Moss
2006All the Invisible Children as Jonathan's wife (segment "Jonathan")
2005Lassie as Jeanie
2005Nanny McPhee as Evangeline
2005A Cock and Bull Story as Jenny
2005The Girl in the Café as Gina
2005The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy as Reporter
2005The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson as Self
2004Finding Neverland as Peter Pan
2003Intermission as Deirdre
2003State of Play as Della Smith
2003Brush with Fate as Aletta Pieters
2002The Making of Gosford Park as Self
2001Gosford Park as Mary Maceachran
2001Alias as Kiera MacLaine / Meghan Keene
2001Strictly Sinatra as Irene
2000Some Voices as Laura
2000House! as Linda
2000Two Family House as Mary O'Neary
1999Entropy as Pia
1999Tube Tales as Emma (segment "Mr. Cool")
1999Splendor as Mike
1999My Life So Far as Elspeth Pettigrew
1999The Loss of Sexual Innocence as Susan
1998Elizabeth as Isabel Knollys
1998Cousin Bette as Hortense Hulot
1997Stella Does Tricks as Stella
1996Flowers of the Forest as Amy Ogilvie
1996Dead Eye Dick
1996Trainspotting as Diane
1996Dancing, Some Days as Sharon
1951Hallmark Hall of Fame as Aletta Pieters
—Lanterns as Sheriff Kerry









