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Kelly Macdonald (born 23 February 1976) is a Scottish actress, known for her role in the independent film Trainspotting and mainstream releases such as Nanny McPhee, Gosford Park, Intermission, No Country for Old Men and Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows ? Part 2. On television, she is known for her roles in Boardwalk Empire, The Girl in the Cafe and State of Play.

This book is your ultimate resource for Kelly Macdonald. Here you will find the most up-to-date information, photos, and much more.

In easy to read chapters, with extensive references and links to get you to know all there is to know about her Early life, Career and Personal life right away. A quick look inside: Kelly Macdonald, Trainspotting (film), Stella Does Tricks, Cousin Bette (film), Elizabeth (film), Splendor (1999 film), Entropy (film), The Loss of Sexual Innocence, My Life So Far, Tube Tales, Two Family House, House!, Some Voices (film), Strictly Sinatra, Gosford Park, Intermission (film), Brush with Fate, State of Play (TV serial), Finding Neverland, The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (film), All the Invisible Children, Nanny McPhee, Lassie (2005 film), The Girl in the Cafe, A Cock and Bull Story, No Country for Old Men (film), The Merry Gentleman, Choke (film), In the Electric Mist, Skellig (film), Boardwalk Empire, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows ? Part 2, Brave (2012 film).

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Contents

Kelly Macdonald Trainspotting (film) Stella Does Tricks Cousin Bette (film) Elizabeth (film) Splendor (1999 film)

Entropy (film) The Loss of Sexual Innocence My Life So Far Tube Tales Two Family House House! Some Voices (film) Strictly Sinatra Gosford Park Intermission (film) Brush with Fate State of Play (TV serial) Finding Neverland The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (film) All the Invisible Children Nanny McPhee Lassie (2005 film) The Girl in the Café A Cock and Bull Story No Country for Old Men (film) The Merry Gentleman

Choke (film)

In the Electric Mist Skellig (film) Boardwalk Empire Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows–Part 2 Brave (2012 film)

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Kelly Macdonald

Macdonald at the 2007 New York Film Festival Born[1] 23 February 1976 Glasgow, Scotland

Occupation

Years active

Spouse

Children

Actress

1996–present

Dougie Payne (m. 2003–present)

[1] Kelly Macdonald(born 23 February 1976) is a Scottish actress, known for her role in the independent film Trainspottingand mainstream releases such asNanny McPhee,Gosford Park,Intermission,No Country for Old Men andHarry Potter and the Deathly Hallows–Part 2. On television, she is known for her roles inBoardwalk Empire, The Girl in the CaféandState of Play.

Personal life [1] Macdonald was born in Glasgow, Scotland. Her mother was a garment industry sales executive. [2] In August 2003, Macdonald married musician Dougie Payne. Their son was born in March 2008.

Career [3] Macdonald's career began while working as a barmaid. She saw a leaflet advertising an open casting session for [4] Trainspottingthe underage seductress to Ewan McGregor'sand decided to audition, winning the part of Diane, [5] Renton. Other roles include Mary O'Neary inTwo Family Houseand an actress playing Peter Pan inFinding [6] [7] Neverland. She also had major roles in Robert Altman's British period pieceGosford Park, where she played an [8] aristocrat's maid, as well as inIntermission(2003), as Deirdre. [9] On television, her highest-profile roles have been in two BBC dramas, the Paul Abbott serialState of Play(2003) [10] and the one-off Richard Curtis pieceThe Girl in the Café(2005). Both of these were directed by David Yates, and both also starred Bill Nighy. For her performance inThe Girl in the Café, Macdonald was nominated for a [11] [12] Golden Globe in 2006, and won an Emmy. [13] Macdonald starred in the 2005 filmNanny McPhee, as the scullery maid Evangeline, and has since had [14] supporting roles inA Cock and Bull Storythe Coen brothers' Academy Award-winning(2006), and No Country [15] for Old MenHer agent was originally unsure she was right for the latter part, and Macdonald is reported, (2007), [16] as having to "fight for the role". Her persistence paid off, however, as she was nominated for a BAFTA for Best [17] [18] Supporting Actress. Other films where she had supporting roles includeChokethe(2008), as Paige Marshall, film adapted by Clark Gregg from the 2001 Chuck Palahniuk novel;In the Electric Mist(2009) (based on James Lee

Nominated—BAFTA Scotland Award for Best Actress–Film

Short film

Mary O'Neary

Film and television

Segment: Mr Cool

Lettice Knollys

Macdonald at the 2007 Toronto International Film Festival

Filmography

Elizabeth

1998

Stella Does Tricks

Mike

Pia

Linda

Tube Tales

Elspeth Pettigrew

Emma

Susan

Irene

Laura

The Loss of Sexual Innocence

BBC TV-Movie

In 2011, she played the Grey Lady, revealed to be Helena Ravenclaw, inHarry Potter and the Deathly Hallows– Part 2, the final instalment of theHarry Potterfilm franchise. She replaced Nina Young, the original actress in the role.

Nominated—Independent Spirit Award for Best Female Lead

1997

Trainspotting

1996

Flowers of the Forest

Notes

Role

1999

2001

Strictly Sinatra

2000

Two Family House

1999

My Life So Far

House!

2000

Dead Eye Dick

Wendy

Amy Ogilvie

Splendor

1999

Entropy

1999

2000

Some Voices

Hortense Hulot

Cousin Bette

Title

Stella

Diane Coulston

1996

1998

1996

Year

Burke'sIn the Electric Mist with Confederate Dead(1993)), as Kelly Drummond, alongside Tommy Lee Jones and [19] [20] John Goodman; andSkellig(2009), as Louise. She also played the lead inThe Merry Gentleman(2008), as [21] Kate Frazier. She plays Margaret Schroeder on HBO'sBoardwalk Empire. Another planned project is the [22] romantic comedyThe Decoy Brideopposite David Tennant.

Kelly Macdonald

2011

London Film Critics Circle Award for Best British Supporting Actress Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Cast in a Motion Picture Nominated—BAFTA Award for Best Actress in a Supporting Role Nominated—Online Film Critics Society Award for Best Supporting Actress

2005

2009

2010–present

Boardwalk Empire

2009

Skellig

2011

The Decoy Bride

No Country for Old Men

Carla Jean Moss

Margaret Schroeder

2003

2004

Intermission

State of Play

Finding Neverland

Jeanie

2007

Peter Pan

Deirdre

Sundance Film Festival–Special Jury Prize–Dramatic

Della Smith

Aletta Pieters

2006

The Girl in the Café

A Cock and Bull Story

Gina

Jenny

Nominated—Scream Award for Best Ensemble Pending—People's Choice Award for Favorite Ensemble Movie Cast

Kiera MacLaine/Meghan Keene

Reporter

The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

Series Regular Nominated—Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actress– Series, Miniseries or Television Film, 2010 Pending—Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actress– Series, Miniseries or Television Film, 2011 Nominated—Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actress–Drama Series, 2011

BBC TV-Movie Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Miniseries or a Movie Nominated—Golden Globe Award for Best Actress–Miniseries or Television Film

Episode: Ice

CBS TV-Movie

Jonathan's wife

Evangeline

Segment: Jonathan

The Merry Gentleman

Choke

2008

Gosford Park

Kelly Macdonald

2008

[23] Katie Nic Aodh

Paige Marshall

Louise

2001

Kate Frazier

In the Electric Mist

Kelly Drummond

Broadcast Film Critics Association Award for Best Cast Florida Film Critics Circle Award for Best Cast Online Film Critics Society Award for Best Cast Satellite Award for Best Cast–Motion Picture Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Cast in a Motion Picture Nominated—Empire Award for Best British Actress Nominated—Phoenix Film Critics Society Award for Best Cast

Mary Maceachran

Lassie

2005

Alias

2005

Nanny McPhee

2005

All the Invisible Children

2005

Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows–Part 2

Brush with Fate

Helena "The Grey Lady" Ravenclaw

2003

Kelly Macdonald

2012

Brave

Anna Karenina

Awards and nominations

BAFTA Awards

Marida(voice)

Dolly

Released on 22 June 2012

b 2008: Nominated, "Best Supporting Actress" -No Country for Old Men BAFTA Scotland Awards b 1997: Nominated, "Best Film Actress" -Trainspotting Broadcast Film Critics Association Awards b 2002: "Best Acting Ensemble" -Gosford Park Emmy Awards b 2006: "Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Miniseries or a Movie" -The Girl in the Café b 2011: Nominated, "Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Drama Series" -Boardwalk Empire Empire Awards b 2003: Nominated, "Best British Actress" -Gosford Park Florida Film Critics Circle Awards b 2002: "Best Ensemble Cast" -Gosford Park Golden Globe Awards b 2006: Nominated, "Best Performance by an Actress in a Mini-Series or a Motion Picture Made for Television" -The Girl in the Café b 2010: Nominated, "Best Performance by an Actress in a Supporting role in a Series, Miniseries or Television Film" -Boardwalk Empire b 2011: Pending, "Best Performance by an Actress in a Supporting role in a Series, Miniseries or Television Film" -Boardwalk Empire Independent Spirit Awards b 2001: Nominated, "Best Female Lead" -Two Family House London Film Critics Circle Awards b 2008: "British Supporting Actress of the Year" -No Country for Old Men Online Film Critics Society Awards b 2002: "Best Ensemble" -Gosford Park b 2008: Nominated, "Best Supporting Actress" -No Country for Old Men Phoenix Film Critics Society Awards b 2002: Nominated, "Best Acting Ensemble" -Gosford Park Satellite Awards b 2002: "Outstanding Motion Picture Ensemble" -Gosford Park Screen Actors Guild Awards b 2002: "Outstanding Performance by the Cast of a Theatrical Motion Picture" -Gosford Park b 2008: "Outstanding Performance by a Cast in a Motion Picture" -No Country for Old Men b 2011: "Outstanding Performance by a Ensemble in a Drama Series" -Boardwalk Empire Sundance Film Festival

Kelly Macdonald

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

References

[1] Kelly Macdonald Biography (1976-) (http:/ /www.filmreference.com/film/71/Kelly-Macdonald.html). filmreference.com. Retrieved on 22 January 2008. [2] "Macdonald Gives Birth" (http:/ /www.contactmusic.com/news.nsf/story/macdonald-gives-birth_1064371). contactmusic. . Retrieved 28 August 2010. [3] Cadwalladr, Carole (5 April 2009). "Cinema's best-kept secret" (http:/ /www.guardian.co.uk/film/2009/apr/05/ kelly-macdonald-interview-martin-scorsese).The Guardian(London). . [4] "trainspotting" (http://www.dvdmg.com/trainspotting.shtml). dvdmg. . Retrieved 26 August 2010. [5] "two family house" (http://www.spiritualityandpractice.com/films/films.php?id=2399). spiritualityandpractice. . Retrieved 26 August 2010. [6] "finding neverland" (http://uk.movies.yahoo.com/f/Finding-Neverland/cast-credits-47078.html). yahoo movies. . Retrieved 26 August 2010. [7] "gosford park" (http://movies.tvguide.com/gosford-park/cast/135545). movies.tvguide. . Retrieved 26 August 2010. [8] "intermission" (http://worldfilm.about.com/cs/irishfilms/fr/intermission.htm''). worldfilm.about. . Retrieved 28 August 2010. [9] "state of play" (http://www.bbc.co.uk/drama/stateofplay/). bbc. . Retrieved 26 August 2010. [10] "girl in the cafe" (http://www.qwipster.net/girlcafe.htm). qwipster. . Retrieved 26 August 2010. [11] "2006 Golden Globe" (http://tvdramas.about.com/od/tvshowsaz/a/goldglobe2006.htm). tvdramas.about. . Retrieved 26 August 2010. [12] "Scots star wins Emmy for TV role" (http:/ /news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/scotland/5292128.stm). bbc. 28 August 2006. . Retrieved 26 August 2010. [13] "nanny mcphee" (http://movies.about.com/od/nancymcphee/a/nannykm011806.htm). about. . Retrieved 26 August 2010. [14] "A cock and bull story" (http:/ /www.comingsoon.net/news/reviewsnews.php?id=12901). comingsoon. . Retrieved 26 August 2010. [15] "no country for old men" (http:/ /movies.tvguide.com/country-old-men/291106). movies.tvguide. . Retrieved 26 August 2010. [16] Kelly Macdonald: No Country for Old Men video interview (http:/ /www.stv.tv/content/out/film/videointerviews/display. html?id=opencms:/out/films/video_interviews/Kelly_Macdonaldx_Turning_Texan_20080118) [17] "2008 baftas" (http://bafta.org/awards/film/film-awards-nominees-in-2008,224,BA.html). bafta.org. . Retrieved 26 August 2010. [18] "choke" (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1024715/fullcredits). imdb. . Retrieved 26 August 2010. [19] "in the electric mist" (http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/hr/festival/film-review-in-the-electric-mist-1003939573.story). hollywoodreporter.com. . Retrieved 26 August 2010. [20] Wilson, Benji (11 April 2009). "Kelly Macdonald's 'comeback' with Skellig" (http:/ /entertainment.timesonline.co.uk/tol/ arts_and_entertainment/film/article6058980.ece). London: entertainment.timesonline.co.uk. . Retrieved 26 August 2010. [21] "the merry gentleman" (http:/ /www.cinematical.com/2008/01/22/sundance-review-the-merry-gentleman/). cinematical. . Retrieved 26 August 2010. [22] Macnab, Geoffrey (14 May 2010). "Tennant, MacDonald, Eve walk down the aisle with "Decoy Bride"" (http:/ /www.screendaily.com/ news/production/tennant-macdonald-eve-walk-down-the-aisle-with-decoy-bride/ 5013816.article).Screen Daily. . Retrieved 30 April 2011. [23] "Hollywood comes to isle of 'Hegg' in a Local Hero for the 21st century" (http:/ /news.scotsman.com/entertainment/ Hollywood-comes-to-isle-of.6296971.jp).The Scotsman. 2010-05-15. . Retrieved 2010-05-30.

External links b Kelly Macdonald (http://www.imdb.com/name/nm531808/) at the Internet Movie Database Kelly Macdonald (http://tcmdb.com/participant/participant.jsp?participantId=536675) at the TCM Movie Database Kelly Macdonald (http://www.screenonline.org.uk/people/id/577541) at the British Film Institute's Screenonline b Kelly Macdonald (http://movies.yahoo.com/movie/contributor/1800021053) at Yahoo! Movies b Kelly Macdonald inSkelligon Sky1, Easter 2009 (http://www.sky1.co.uk/skellig/)

The Academy Award-nominated screenplay, by John Hodge, was adapted from Welsh's novel. The title of the film refers to a hobby of sitting and watching trains pass by and is used as a metaphor for wasting time. Beyond drug addiction, other concurrent themes in the film are exploration of the urban poverty and squalor in "culturally rich" [1] Edinburgh. The film has been ranked 10th spot by the British Film Institute (BFI) in its list of Top 100 British films of all time. [2] In 2004 the film was voted the best Scottish film of all time in a general public poll.

PolyGram Filmed Entertainment

$72,000,000

$3,500,000

English

93 minutes

Trainspotting

Andrew Macdonald

Original UK release poster

Based on

Trainspotting (film)

Music by

Starring

Editing by

23 February 1996

United Kingdom

John Hodge

Screenplay by

Masahiro Hirakubo

Trainspotting (film)

Danny Boyle

Ewan McGregor Jonny Lee Miller Robert Carlyle Ewen Bremner Kevin McKidd Kelly Macdonald

Narrated by

Brian Tufano

Ewan McGregor

Trainspottingby Irvine Welsh

Cinematography

see below

Directed by

Produced by

Trainspottingis a 1996 British drama film directed by Danny Boyle based on the novel of the same name by Irvine Welsh. The movie follows a group of heroin addicts in a late 1980s economically depressed area of Edinburgh and their passage through life. The film stars Ewan McGregor as Mark Renton, Ewen Bremner as Spud, Jonny Lee Miller as Sick Boy, Kevin McKidd as Tommy, Robert Carlyle as Begbie, and Kelly Macdonald as Diane. Author Irvine Welsh also has a cameo appearance as hapless drug dealer Mikey Forrester.

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Trainspotting (film)

Plot The film begins with Mark Renton's (Ewan McGregor) narration as he and his friend Spud (Ewen Bremner) run down Princes Street pursued by security guards. Renton states that unlike people who "choose life" (children, financial stability and material possessions), he has chosen to live as a heroin addict. Renton's close circle of football enthusiast friends are introduced: amoral con artist Sick Boy (Jonny Lee Miller), clean-cut athlete Tommy (Kevin McKidd), simpleminded, good-natured Spud, and violent sociopath Begbie (Robert Carlyle). Sick Boy, Spud and Renton are all heroin addicts, and spend their time shooting up at the flat of their drug dealer Swanney (Peter Mullan). One day, Renton decides to quit heroin. Realizing he needs one last high, he buys opium rectal suppositories from Mikey Forrester (Irvine Welsh). After this final hit (and a violent spell of diarrhea), he locks himself into a cheap hotel room to endure withdrawal. He later goes with his friends to a club, finding that his sex drive has returned, and eventually leaves with a young woman, Diane (Kelly MacDonald). After sex, Diane refuses to let him sleep in her room and he spends the night on a sofa in the hallway of the flat. In the morning, he realizes that Diane is a fifteen-year-old schoolgirl and that her "flatmates" are actually her parents. Horrified, Renton tries to shake the incident but remains friends with Diane. Tommy had been dumped by his girlfriend Lizzy after a chain of events inadvertently initiated by Renton. Renton had borrowed one of Tommy and Lizzy's personal sex tapes, hiding it in the case of a football video. Lizzy angrily believed that Tommy had returned their tape to the video store. Sick Boy, Spud and Renton decide to start using heroin again, and a brokenhearted Tommy begins using as well, despite Renton's reluctance to get him started. One day the group's heroin-induced stupor at Swanney's flat is violently interrupted when Allison, their friend and fellow addict, discovers that her infant daughter, Dawn, has died from neglect. All are horrified and grief-stricken, especially Sick Boy, who is implied to be Dawn's father. Renton and Spud are later caught stealing from a book shop and are pursued by security guards and arrested, as seen in the opening scene of the film. Due to prior convictions, Spud goes to prison, but Renton avoids punishment by entering a Drug Interventions Programme, where he is given methadone. Despite support from his friends and family, Renton is constantly depressed and bored with life and escapes to Swanney's flat, where he nearly dies of an overdose. Renton's parents take him home and lock him in his old bedroom so he can beat the addiction cold turkey. As Renton lies in his bed and goes through severe withdrawal symptoms, he hallucinates that he is seeing Diane singing to him, his friends giving him advice, and Allison's dead baby crawling on the ceiling. The heroin withdrawal is inter-cut with a bizarre, imagined TV game show in which host Dale Winton asks Renton's parents questions about HIV. Renton is finally roused from his nightmares and hallucination by his parents, who tell him he needs to get tested. Despite years of sharing syringes with other addicts, Renton tests negative. Clean of heroin, Renton is neverthless bored and depressed, feeling that his life has no purpose. He visits Tommy, who is now far gone into addiction and living with HIV in a dark, filthy flat. On Diane's advice, Renton moves to London and starts a job as a property letting agent. He begins to enjoy his new life of sobriety, and saves up money on the side while corresponding with Diane. His happiness is again short-lived, however; Begbie commits an armed robbery and arrives at Renton's London flat seeking a hiding place from the police. Sick Boy, who now sees himself as a well-connected pimp and drug pusher, also shows up at Renton's doorstep. Renton's "mates" make his life miserable, stealing from him and wrecking his flat. Seeking to be rid of them, he puts them up in a property he is responsible for, which they use as a base to commit theft. They soon learn of Tommy's death from toxoplasmosis and travel back to Edinburgh for his funeral. Back home, they meet Spud, who has been released from prison. Sick Boy suggests a profitable but dangerous heroin transaction. Sick Boy needs Renton's help to supply half of the initial c4,000. After the purchase, Renton injects a dose of heroin to test the purity. The four then sell the heroin to a dealer for c16,000. They go to a pub and celebrate, discussing possible plans for the money. As Begbie and Sick Boy leave to order another round of drinks, Renton suggests to Spud that they both steal the money. Spud is too frightened of Begbie to consider it. Renton,