Biography
Kelly Macdonald is a Scottish actress. She made her film debut in Trainspotting (1996) as Diane. Her other film roles include Carla Jean Moss in No Country for Old Men (2007), Helena Ravenclaw in Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2 (2011), and the voice of Merida in Brave (2012).
On television, Macdonald won a Primetime Emmy Award for The Girl in the Cafe (2005) and was nominated for Boardwalk Empire (2010–2014), in which she played Margaret Thompson. She has also appeared in Black Mirror (2016), Giri/Haji (2019) and Line of Duty (2021).
More recent credits include Dr Rachel Irving in the series Dept. Q (2025) and Sheriff Kerry Kane in Lanterns (2026).
