Kelly MacDonald Filmography

Born:: February 23, 1976 in Glasgow, Scotland
Occupation:: Actor
Biography:: Scottish actress Kelly Macdonald was planning to go to drama school when director Danny Boyle cast her in Trainspotting (1996). A surprise international hit, it featured Macdonald, a native of Glasgow, as the acid-tongued schoolgirl who gives heroin junkie Ewan McGregor one of the more memorable...Read More

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Choke

Actors: Sam Rockwell, Anjelica Huston, Kelly MacDonald, Brad Henke, Clark Gregg

Synopsis: Victor Mancini (Sam Rockwell) has got some problems -- when he's not haunting sexual-addiction meetings to bed women, he masquerades as a choking victim in restaurants to gather money from unsuspecting strangers for his ailing mother (Anjelica Huston). But what happens when this messed up Read More

9/26/08
The Merry Gentleman

Actors: Michael Keaton, Kelly MacDonald, Tom Bastounes, Darlene Hunt, Guy Van Swearingen

Synopsis: Michael Keaton makes his directorial debut in this low-key story of two unlikely kindred spirits. Kate Frazier (Kelly Macdonald) is a sweet woman who has left behind an abusive husband to start her life over in Chicago. Kate lands a job as a receptionist, but one afternoon after leaving work for Read More

2008
No Country for Old Men

Actors: Tommy Lee Jones, Javier Bardem, Josh Brolin, Woody Harrelson, Kelly MacDonald

Synopsis: When a Vietnam veteran discovers two million dollars while wandering through the aftermath of a Texas drug deal gone horribly awry, his decision to abscond with the cash sets off a violent chain reaction in a stripped-down crime drama from Joel and Ethan Coen. Llewelyn Moss (Josh Brolin) has just Read More

11/9/07
Tristram Shandy: A Cock and Bull Story

Actors: Steve Coogan, Rob Brydon, Raymond Waring, Dylan Moran, Keeley Hawes, Gillian Anderson

Synopsis: A group of actors and filmmakers set out to adapt an "unfilmable" classic novel -- but find that their own petty concerns get in the way -- in this satirical comedy. Laurence Sterne's 18th century novel The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman told the story of its priggish title Read More

1/27/06
Nanny McPhee

Actors: Emma Thompson, Colin Firth, Angela Lansbury, Kelly MacDonald, Patrick Barlow, Thomas Sangster

Synopsis: A nanny reveals ways of making children behave that are much more effective than a time-out in this fantasy comedy based on the "Nurse Matilda" books for children by Christianna Brand. Near the dawn of the twentieth century, Mr. Brown (Colin Firth) is a widower who must tend to his business as an Read More

1/27/06
Lassie

Actors: Peter O'Toole, Samantha Morton, John Lynch, Peter Dinklage, Steve Pemberton

Synopsis: Everyone's favorite collie returns to the screen -- and to her native home back in Britain -- in director Charles Sturridge's faithful adaptation of author Eric Knight's sentimental kid and canine novel Lassie Come Home. When Lassie saves a fox from the hunting hounds of the duke of Rudling (Peter O'Toole Read More

12/16/05
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

Actors: Martin Freeman, Mos Def, Sam Rockwell, Zooey Deschanel, Warwick Davis

Synopsis: Douglas Adams' oft-adapted tale of an normal guy making his way through the universe (it's already been presented as a novel, a radio serial, a television series, and a comic book) finally makes its way to the big screen in this endearingly goofy sci-fi comedy. Arthur Dent (Martin Freeman) is a Read More

4/29/05
The Girl in the Café

Actors: Bill Nighy, Kelly MacDonald, Corin Redgrave, Meneka Das, Anton Lesser, Penny Downie

Synopsis: Produced for HBO, the Capraesque romantic comedy The Girl in the Café stars Bill Nighy as Lawrence, a mild and unprepossessing British civil servant assigned to his country's delegation at the G8 Summit in Reykjavik, Iceland. Although he'd resigned himself to a life of lonely bachelorhood Read More

2005
All the Invisible Children

Actors: Adam Bila, Elysee Rounamba, Rodrigue Ouattara, Ahmed Ouedraogo, Harouna Ouedraogo

2005
Finding Neverland

Actors: Johnny Depp, Kate Winslet, Julie Christie, Radha Mitchell, Dustin Hoffman, Freddie Highmore

Synopsis: Following up his critically acclaimed Monster's Ball, director Marc Forster took on this biography of playwright James Matthew Barrie, the scribe who penned the children's classic Peter Pan. Johnny Depp stars as the turn-of-the-century writer as the film follows Barrie as he struggles to write and Read More

11/12/04
Intermission

Actors: Colin Farrell, Shirley Henderson, Kelly MacDonald, Colm Meaney, Cillian Murphy

Synopsis: In the suburbs of Dublin, more than a dozen strangers find their paths colliding in sometimes violent, sometimes absurd ways in Intermission, the first feature from director John Crowley. Setting the chain of events in motion is Lehiff (Colin Farrell), a small-time crook whose most recent petty Read More

3/19/04
Brush With Fate

Actors: Glenn Close, Thomas Gibson, Ellen Burstyn, Phyllida Law, Kelly MacDonald

Synopsis: Susan Vreeland's novel The Girl in Hyacinthn Blue was the source for this made-for-TV drama. Utilizing a complex flashback-within-flashback structure, the film chronicles the 300-year history of a lost painting said to have been created by Dutch artist Johannes Vermeer. The story is framed by the Read More

2003
State of Play

Actors: David Morrissey, John Simm, Bill Nighy, Kelly MacDonald, James McAvoy

Synopsis: The government's dangerous penchant for favoring corporate interests is put to the ultimate test after an ambitious politician's research assistant perishes under mysterious circumstances, and a crime that at first appeared unconnected with the death is exposed to reveal an intricate web of lies Read More

2003
Gosford Park

Actors: Maggie Smith, Michael Gambon, Kristin Scott Thomas, Jeremy Northam, Bob Balaban, Alan Bates, Richard E. Grant, Helen Mirren, Eileen Atkins, Emily Watson

Synopsis: Maverick American filmmaker Robert Altman takes a witty and absorbing look at the foibles of the British class system in this intelligent murder mystery set in the early '30s. Sir William McCordle (Michael Gambon) and his wife Lady Sylvia (Kristin Scott Thomas) are a pair of wealthy British Read More

12/26/01
Strictly Sinatra

Actors: Ian Hart, Kelly MacDonald, Alun Armstrong, Brian Cox, Tommy Flanagan

Synopsis: A nobody walks a dangerous path in a bid to become a big-shot in this gritty drama from the United Kingdom. Tony Cocozza (Ian Hart) is a small-time Scottish vocalist with a gimmick -- he loves the music of Frank Sinatra, and his repertoire consists almost entirely of songs associated with Ol' Blue Read More

1/1/01
Two Family House

Actors: Michael Rispoli, Kelly MacDonald, Kathrine Narducci, Kevin Conway, Matt Servitto

Synopsis: Raymond De Felitta directs this warm, colorful tale about a blue collar dreamer who gets more than he bargained for after buying a two-family house. Set during the 1950s in Staten Island, the film charts the financial failures of Buddy (Michael Rispoli), a nice-guy entrepreneur who has perpetual Read More

10/6/00
Stella Does Tricks

Actors: Kelly MacDonald, Ewan Stewart, James Bolam, Lindsay Henderson, Hans Mathieson

Synopsis: The film begins in a London park where a teenage girl wearing pig tails, a short, childish skirt and carrying an ice cream cone sits upon a bench beside an older man and promptly performs a sexual act for him. The girl is Stella and the "stranger" is her pimp, Mr. Peters. As harsh as it is Read More

1/28/00
Some Voices

Actors: Daniel Craig, David Morrissey, Kelly MacDonald, Julie Graham, Peter McDonald

2000
House!

Actors: Keith Chegwin, Gwenllian Davies, Bruce Forsyth, Helen Griffin

Synopsis: A local bingo emporium finds itself competing against the big boys in this easygoing comedy. The La Scala is a theater in Wales that has offered drama, music, and movies to local audiences over the years, but is now being used as a bingo hall. The hall's manager, Giovanni Anzani (Freddie Jones) Read More

2000
Splendor

Actors: Kathleen Robertson, Johnathon Schaech, Matt Keeslar, Kelly MacDonald, Eric Mabius

Synopsis: A struggling actress forges an unusual family unit with two separate boyfriends in this romantic comedy from indie auteur Gregg Araki. Veronica (Kathleen Robertson) hasn't had a decent date for a year, but one Halloween she meets not one but two perfect guys: Zed (Matt Keeslar), a rock drummer who Read More

9/17/99
My Life So Far

Actors: Colin Firth, Rosemary Harris, Irène Jacob, Tchéky Karyo, Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio

Synopsis: Director Hugh Hudson, who made his directorial debut with the award-winning Chariots Of Fire, returns to the theme of British life in the 1920s in the bittersweet family drama My Life So Far. Gamma Macintosh (Rosemary Harris) is the matriarch of a family that inhabits Harewood House, a castle in Read More

7/14/99
The Loss of Sexual Innocence

Actors: Bernard Hill, Linda Evangelista, Julian Sands, Saffron Burrows, Stefano Dionisi, Jonathan Rhys-Meyers, Kelly MacDonald

Synopsis: Director Mike Figgis, creator of the Academy award-winning Leaving Las Vegas, presented this film's world premiere at the 1999 Sundance Film Festival. The story is made up of non-linear, interconnected episodes about a man at different stages of his life, all of which explicate thematically the Read More

5/28/99
Tube Tales

Actors: Kelly MacDonald, Jason Flemyng, Dexter Fletcher, Tom Bell

Synopsis: This omnibus film is both a tribute to 1990s Cool Britannia and an opportunity for many of Britain's best actors to step behind the camera. Set in the London's underground (AKA the Tube), the film's nine shorts depict England's most hallowed form of public transportation in wildly divergent Read More

1999
Entropy

Actors: Stephen Dorff, Judith Godrëche, Kelly MacDonald, Lauren Holly, Jon Tenney

Synopsis: A filmmaker tries to sort out the scattered emotional baggage of his love life in Entropy. Jake Walsh (Stephen Dorff) is a film director who attends a fashion show with some friends and meets a French model named Stella (Judith Godreche). The attraction between the two is immediate, and after a Read More

1999
Elizabeth

Actors: Cate Blanchett, Geoffrey Rush, Christopher Eccleston, Joseph Fiennes, Richard Attenborough

Synopsis: This British-made historical drama depicts the rise of young Elizabeth Tudor to Queen of England, a reign of intrigue and betrayals. In 1554, Queen Mary I (Kathy Burke) tries to restore Catholicism as England's single faith. With no heir to the crown, she maneuvers to keep her Protestant Read More

11/6/98
Cousin Bette

Actors: Jessica Lange, Elisabeth Shue, Bob Hoskins, Hugh Laurie, Kelly MacDonald

Synopsis: Acclaimed theater director Des McAnuff made his feature-film directorial debut with this period comedy-drama adapted from Honore de Balzac's novel La Cousine Bette (1846) about a jealous and bitter spinster who attempts to destroy the romance between her niece and a Polish sculptor. In Paris of Read More

6/12/98
Trainspotting

Actors: Ewan McGregor, Ewen Bremner, Jonny Lee Miller, Kevin McKidd, Robert Carlyle, Kelly MacDonald

Synopsis: Mark Renton (Ewan McGregor), a young man with few prospects and fewer ambitions, lives in economically depressed Edinburgh. Like most of his friends, Renton is a heroin addict who loves the drug's blissful nothingness; financing his habit also provides excitement and challenges that his life Read More

1996