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 Elizabet...
Known For
Complete Filmography

Royal Carols: Together at Christmas
2024
as Self

The Radleys
2024
as Helen Radley
A seemingly ordinary family harbors a dark secret: they are vampires. They choose not to drink blood despite their natural cravings, but one day, thei...

Typist Artist Pirate King
2023
as Sandra Panza
In a last-ditch mission to get recognition for her talent, Audrey Amiss (Monica Dolan) persuades her psychiatric nurse, Sandra Panza (Kelly Macdonald)...

I Came By
2022
as Lizzie Nealey
A rebellious young graffiti artist, who targets the homes of the wealthy elite, discovers a shocking secret that leads him on a journey endangering hi...

Operation Mincemeat
2022
as Jean Leslie
In 1943, two British intelligence officers concoct Operation Mincemeat, wherein their plan to drop a corpse with false papers off the coast of Spain w...

Dirt Music
2020
as Georgie
Georgie is slowly suffocating in a loveless marriage to fishing tycoon Jim Buckridge. Handsome poacher Lu is an irresistible symbol of the excitement ...

Holmes & Watson
2018
as Mrs. Martha Hudson
Detective Sherlock Holmes and Dr. John Watson join forces to investigate a mysterious murder at Buckingham Palace. It seems like an open-and-shut case...

Ralph Breaks the Internet
2018
as Merida (voice)
Video game bad guy Ralph and fellow misfit Vanellope von Schweetz must risk it all by traveling to the World Wide Web in search of a replacement part ...

Angela Carter: Of Wolves & Women
2018
as Reader
A dark and delicious foray into Angela Carter's extraordinary life with animation by Peepshow Collective, rare archive and family photos, and contribu...

Puzzle
2018
as Agnes
After years of caring exclusively for the needs of her husband and children, Agnes, a devoted housewife living in a small town near New York, has foun...

The Child in Time
2018
as Julie Lewis
A successful writer of children's books, Stephen Lewis is confronted with the unthinkable—he loses his only child, four-year-old Kate, in a supermarke...

Goodbye Christopher Robin
2017
as Olive Rand / Nou
The behind the scenes story of the life of A.A. Milne and the creation of the Winnie the Pooh stories inspired by his son Christopher Robin.

T2 Trainspotting
2017
as Diane
After 20 years abroad, Mark Renton returns to Scotland and reunites with his old friends Sick Boy, Spud and Begbie.

The Journey Is the Destination
2016
as Duff
The inspiring life story of the late photojournalist, artist and activist Dan Eldon, who abandoned a comfortable life in London to document the strugg...

Swallows and Amazons
2016
as Mrs. Walker
Four children dream of escaping the tedium of a summer holiday with their mother. When finally given permission to camp on their own on an island in t...

Special Correspondents
2016
as Claire Maddox
A radio journalist and his technician get in over their heads when they hatch a scheme to fake their own kidnapping during a rebel uprising in South A...

The Final Shot: A Farewell to Boardwalk Empire
2014
as Self
A behind the scenes look at the series as a whole, interviews with cast, crew and creators on the whole journey.
Strap Hanging
2014
Strap-Hanging tells the strange story of a Japanese boy so obsessed by tsunamis that he makes himself a pair of inflatable rubber underpants in case d...

Anna Karenina
2012
as Dolly
In Imperial Russia, Anna, the wife of the officer Karenin, goes to Moscow to visit her brother. On the way, she meets the charming cavalry officer Vro...

Brave
2012
as Merida (voice)
Brave is set in the mystical Scottish Highlands, where Mérida is the princess of a kingdom ruled by King Fergus and Queen Elinor. An unruly daughter a...

Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2
2011
as Helena Ravenclaw
Harry, Ron and Hermione continue their quest to vanquish the evil Voldemort once and for all. Just as things begin to look hopeless for the young wiza...

The Decoy Bride
2011
as Katie Meaghaid
A local woman is hired to draw paparazzi away from a Hollywood actress who has come to Scotland to get married.

Skellig
2009
as Louise
An ordinary boy named Michael is going through some extraordinary changes in his life. His family has just moved into an unfamiliar house, and his bra...

In the Electric Mist
2009
as Kelly Drummond
Lt. Dave Robicheaux, a detective in New Iberia, Louisiana, is trying to link the murder of a local hooker to New Orleans mobster Julie (Baby Feet) Bal...

Choke
2008
as Paige Marshall
A sex-addicted con-man pays for his mother's hospital bills by playing on the sympathies of those who rescue him from choking to death.

Memories of "Trainspotting"
2008
as Self
This 2008 documentary, Memories of "Trainspotting," features interviews with director Danny Boyle, producer Andrew Macdonald, screenwriter John Hodge,...

The Merry Gentleman
2008
as Kate Frazier
A woman who leaves an abusive relationship to begin a new life in a new city, where she forms an unlikely and ironic relationship with a suicidal hit ...
Diary of a Country Sheriff
2008
as Self
No Country for Old Men: Diary of a Country Sheriff

No Country for Old Men: Josh Brolin's Unauthorized Behind the Scenes
2008
as Self
A piece featuring additional cast and crew interview snippets and behind-the-scenes footage. We find comments from Joel and Ethan Coen, Jones, Bardem,...

No Country for Old Men
2007
as Carla Jean Moss
Llewelyn Moss stumbles upon dead bodies, $2 million and a hoard of heroin in a Texas desert, but methodical killer Anton Chigurh comes looking for it,...

Lassie
2005
as Jeanie
A family in financial crisis is forced to sell Lassie, their beloved dog. Hundreds of miles away from her true family, Lassie escapes and sets out on ...

Nanny McPhee
2005
as Evangeline
Widower Cedric Brown hires Nanny McPhee to care for his seven rambunctious children, who have chased away all previous nannies. Taunted by Simon and h...

All the Invisible Children
2005
as Jonathan's wife (segment "Jonathan")
Seven short films - each one focused on the plight of a different child protagonist.

A Cock and Bull Story
2005
as Jenny
Steve Coogan, an arrogant actor with low self-esteem and a complicated love life, is playing the eponymous role in an adaptation of "The Life and Opin...

The Girl in the Café
2005
as Gina
Lawrence, an aging, lonely civil servant falls for Gina, an enigmatic young woman. When he takes her to the G8 Summit in Reykjavik, however, their bon...

The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
2005
as Reporter
Mere seconds before the Earth is to be demolished by an alien construction crew, Arthur Dent is swept off the planet by his friend Ford Prefect, a res...

Finding Neverland
2004
as Peter Pan
During a writing slump, playwright J.M. Barrie meets a widow and her four children, all young boys—who soon become an important part of Barrie’s life ...

Intermission
2003
as Deirdre
A raucous story of the interweaving lives and loves of small-town delinquents, shady cops, pretty good girls and very bad boys. With Irish guts and gr...

Brush with Fate
2003
as Aletta Pieters
A mystery hidden for generations. Now the truth will finally be revealed.

The Making of 'Gosford Park'
2002
as Self
A documentary giving film fans a behind-the-scenes look at the making this Robert Altman film about a murder at an English country estate. Includes in...

Gosford Park
2001
as Mary Maceachran
In 1930s England, a group of pretentious rich and famous gather together for a weekend of relaxation at a hunting resort. But when a murder occurs, ea...

Strictly Sinatra
2001
as Irene
In Glasgow, Toni Cocozza, age 28, aspires to be a lounge singer; his repertoire is strictly Sinatra, backed by Bill, an aging piano player and his onl...

Some Voices
2000
as Laura
Schizophrenic Ray tries to adjust to the outside world after being released from an institution.

House!
2000
as Linda
A small bingo hall is threatened by the opening of the country's largest bingo centre nearby.

Two Family House
2000
as Mary O'Neary
Buddy Visalo (Michael Rispoli) is a factory worker, a frustrated crooner who once had a shot at the big time. Buddy's dreams of greatness have been re...

Entropy
1999
as Pia
Entropy is a semi-autobiographical film which tells the story of a young director struggling to make a film for a despotic studio while his life falls...

Tube Tales
1999
as Emma (segment "Mr. Cool")
Nine short stories based on the true experiences of London Underground passengers: "Mr. Cool" (Amy Jenkins, dir.); "Horny" (Stephen Hopkins); "Grassho...

Splendor
1999
as Mike
Veronica is a white-bread beauty searching for a good man in Los Angeles. While slam dancing at a Halloween rave, she meets Abel, a sensitive poet. Th...

My Life So Far
1999
as Elspeth Pettigrew
A memoir of the lives of a family growing up on a post World War I British estate headed up by a strong disciplinarian, her daughter, her inventor hus...

The Loss of Sexual Innocence
1999
as Susan
The story of the sexual development of a filmmaker through three stages of his life.

Elizabeth
1998
as Isabel Knollys
The story of the ascension to the throne and the early reign of Queen Elizabeth the First, the endless attempts by her council to marry her off, the C...

Cousin Bette
1998
as Hortense Hulot
Cousin Bette is a poor and lonely seamstress, who, after the death of her prominent and wealthy sister, tries to ingratiate herself into lives of her ...

Stella Does Tricks
1997
as Stella
A young Glaswegian prostitute in London tries to start a new life.

Flowers of the Forest
1996
as Amy Ogilvie
Two young children are brought to Janet Hinton, a social worker in the Scottish Highlands. When both she and an independent expert become convinced th...
Dead Eye Dick
1996
Unable to accept that she doesn't want to see him anymore, Joe threatens to shoot himself in the head at his ex-lover's apartment door, but is not exp...

Trainspotting
1996
as Diane
Hilarious but harrowing, the film charts the disintegration of the friendship between Renton, Spud, Sick Boy, Tommy and Begbie as they proceed seeming...

Dancing, Some Days
1996
as Sharon
The Hollywood musical is brought to a Glasgow street. Amidst the crush of city life, two street musicians provide the backdrop for a girl meets boy st...