---
name: "Abby McDonald"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/abby-mcdonald"
fi1m_id: "abby-mcdonald"
imdb_id: "nm3924649"
tmdb_id: 2921787
wikidata_id: "Q306889"
roles: ["Writer"]
born: "1 January 1986"
reviewed_on_fi1m: 1
average_as: "writer"
average_over: 1
updated: "2026-09-23T11:20:16.523469+00:00"
licence: "© Fi1m Ltd. Written by AI under a human editor; checked against sources before publication. Quote with attribution and a link to the canonical URL."
---

# Abby McDonald

## Identity

Abby McDonald

- **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/abby-mcdonald
- **Type:** Person
- **Fi1m ID:** abby-mcdonald
- **IMDb ID:** nm3924649
- **TMDB ID:** 2921787
- **Wikidata ID:** Q306889
- **Same entity:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abby_McDonald, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q306889, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm3924649/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/2921787

Writer. Born 1 January 1986 in Sussex, England, UK.

## Details

- **Work:** Writer
- **Born:** 1 January 1986, Sussex, England, UK
- **Elsewhere:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abby_McDonald, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q306889, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm3924649/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/2921787

## Streaming the US now

- **Netflix:** [*Bridgerton*](https://film.one/tv/bridgerton.md) (80)

For United States; add `?region=XX` for another country.

## Biography

Abby McDonald is a British novelist and screenwriter from Sussex. She graduated from the University of Oxford and signed her first book deal at the age of twenty-two. She has published over thirty novels under her own name and the pseudonyms Abigail Haas and Melody Grace, including the Beachwood Bay series.

McDonald joined the writing staff of the Netflix series *Bridgerton* for its first season (2020) as staff writer and served as executive story editor on the second season (2022). She wrote or co-wrote episodes including 'An Affair of Honor', 'Oceans Apart' and 'An Unthinkable Fate'. Her original screenplay *Jingle Bell Heist* (2025) entered production in London in 2023.

*Sources: en.wikipedia.org, imdb.com, abbymcdonald.com.*

## On Fi1m (1)

- *Bridgerton* (2020), Fi1m 80, Writer — [page](https://film.one/tv/bridgerton.md)

## Complete filmography (2)

Every credit, newest first. Titles without a page can be requested for review on the HTML page.

- *Jingle Bell Heist* (2025), Executive Producer, Story, Screenplay
- *Bridgerton* (2020), series, Writer — Fi1m 80, [page](https://film.one/tv/bridgerton.md)

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© Fi1m Ltd. Written by AI under a human editor; checked against sources before publication. Quote with attribution and a link to the canonical URL. Canonical: https://film.one/person/abby-mcdonald