Gordon MacDonald

Acting · Directing · Production

Gordon MacDonald is a British actor whose career spans film, television, and stage. He is best known for his film roles in The Thin Red Line (1998), Perfect Stranger (2007), The Brave One (2007), and Drive-Away Dolls (2024). On television, he had recurring roles on Saving Grace (2007–2010) and multiple appearances across the Law & Order franchise. On stage, he appeared Off-Broadway in Happy Hour (2011, Atlantic Theater Company), Trumbo: Red White and Blacklisted (2003, earning a Lucille Lortel Award for Outstanding Featured Actor), and Invention for Fathers and Sons (1992). He is the long-time partner of actress Holly Hunter, whom he met in 2003; the couple welcomed twin sons, Press and Claude, in January 2006.

Filmography

• 2024Drive-Away Dolls — Cicero's Waiter
• 2014Three Days in Havana — Producer
• 2007Perfect Stranger — Senator Sachs
• Saving Grace — Jack St. Clair, Hut Flanders
• 2007The Brave One — Murrow
• 2005Missing in America — Director
• Law & Order: Special Victims Unit — Pete
• Law & Order — Richard Gillrich, Trauma Surgeon, Donald Paulsen, Donny Apuzo
• 1988Brain Damage — Mike
• 1988Senior Week — Lance