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name: "Alison O'Donnell"
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average_as: "actor"
average_over: 1
updated: "2026-09-17T15:23:33.842450+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."
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# Alison O'Donnell

Actor. Born in Motherwell, North Lanarkshire, Scotland.

## Details

- **Work:** Actor
- **Elsewhere:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alison_O%27Donnell_(actress), https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q108719302, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm2630117/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1372316

## Streaming the US now

- **Apple TV:** [*Shetland*](https://film.one/tv/shetland.md) (62)

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## Biography

Alison O'Donnell is a Scottish actress. She is best known for playing Detective Sergeant, later Detective Inspector, Alison 'Tosh' McIntosh in the BBC crime drama *Shetland* (2013–), a role she has held since the first series and from which she is set to depart after series 11.

Born in Motherwell, North Lanarkshire, she briefly studied international law before pursuing acting. Early in her career she worked mainly in theatre, including a lead role in *My Romantic History* at the Edinburgh Fringe, which won a Fringe First award in 2011. She has appeared in small television roles such as in *Holby City* (2012) and *Feel the Force* (2006), and in films including *Pet Sematary* (2019) and the English-language version of *Moomins on the Riviera* (2014). She is married to playwright D.C. Jackson.

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

## On Fi1m (1)

- *Shetland* (2013), Fi1m 62, as DI Alison 'Tosh' McIntosh — [page](https://film.one/tv/shetland.md)

## Complete filmography (4)

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

- *Do No Harm* (2020), as Kirsty
- *Pet Sematary* (2019), as Party Guest #1
- *Shetland* (2013), series, as DI Alison 'Tosh' McIntosh — Fi1m 62, [page](https://film.one/tv/shetland.md)
- *Holby City* (1999), series, as Wendy Weiss

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