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name: "Stuart McDonald"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/stuart-mcdonald"
roles: ["Director"]
reviewed_on_fi1m: 1
average_as: "director"
average_over: 1
updated: "2026-09-17T19:13:20.492832+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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# Stuart McDonald

Director. Born in Australia.

## Details

- **Work:** Director
- **Active:** 2011–2015
- **Also known as:** 스튜어트 맥도널드
- **Frequently works with:** [Alex Hardcastle](https://film.one/person/alex-hardcastle.md)
- **Elsewhere:** https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q56436167, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0568018/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1296524

## Biography

Stuart McDonald is an Australian director and writer. He began his career in Australian television, directing all eight episodes of the mockumentary series *Summer Heights High* (2007) and its follow-up *Jonah from Tonga* (2014).

McDonald has directed episodes of numerous US comedy series, including *Suburgatory* (2014), *Crazy Ex-Girlfriend* (2015–2019), *Playing House* (2015), *Wrecked* (2016), *Speechless* (2016–2017) and *American Housewife* (2017). His feature film credits include *Oddball* (2015), *A Perfect Pairing* (2022) and *Choose Love* (2023).

*Sources: imdb.com, tvmaze.com.*

## On Fi1m (1)

- *Crazy Ex-Girlfriend* (2015), Fi1m 82, Director — [page](https://film.one/tv/crazy-ex-girlfriend.md)

## Complete filmography (18)

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

- *Choose Love* (2023), Director
- *A Perfect Pairing* (2022), Director
- *American Housewife* (2016), series, Director
- *Speechless* (2016), series, Director
- *Crazy Ex-Girlfriend* (2015), series, Director — Fi1m 82, [page](https://film.one/tv/crazy-ex-girlfriend.md)
- *Oddball* (2015), Director
- *Ja'mie: Private School Girl* (2013), series, Director
- *Super Fun Night* (2013), series, Director
- *Zach Stone Is Gonna Be Famous* (2013), series, Director
- *Suburgatory* (2011), series, Director
- *Happy Endings* (2011), series, Director
- *East of Everything* (2008), series, Director
- *Summer Heights High* (2007), series, Director
- *Stranded* (2006), Director
- *The Secret Life of Us* (2001), series, Director
- *SeaChange* (1998), series, Writer
- *Baby Bath Massacre* (1994), Writer, Director
- *Mr. Electric* (1993), Director

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