Kelly Macdonald (born 23 February 1976) is a Scottish actress. Known for her film and television performances, she has received various accolades, including a BAFTA Award, a Primetime Emmy Award, and four Screen Actors Guild Awards. Macdonald made her film debut in Danny Boyle's Trainspotting (1996). She was nominated for the BAFTA Award for Best Actress in a Supporting Role for her role in the Coen brothers film No Country for Old Men (2007). During her career, she has taken roles in  Elizabeth (1998), Gosford Park (2001), Intermission (2003), Nanny McPhee (2005),  Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows – Part 2 (2011), Anna Karenina(2012), T2 Trainspotting (2017), and Operation Mincemeat (2021). She voiced Princess Merida in the Disney Pixar animated Brave (2012). On television, she won the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Miniseries or a Movie for her role in the BBC One film The Girl in the Cafe (2005). She was further Emmy-nominated for portraying Margaret Thompson in the period crime drama series Boardwalk Empire (2010–2014). She also acted in Black Mirror's Hated in the Nation (2016), the limited series Giri/Haji (2019), and Line of Duty(2021). Description above from the Wikipedia article Kelly Macdonald, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

Filmography

• Lanterns — Sheriff Kerry Kane
• Dept. Q — Dr Rachel Irving
• Star Wars: Skeleton Crew — Pokkit
• 2024The Radleys — Helen Radley
• 2023Typist Artist Pirate King — Sandra Panza
• 2022I Came By — Lizzie Nealey
• 2022Operation Mincemeat — Jean Leslie
• 2020Dirt Music — Georgie
• Truth Seekers — JoJo 74
• Giri/Haji — Sarah
• The Victim — Anna Dean
• 2018Angela Carter: Of Wolves & Women — Reader
• 2018Holmes & Watson — Martha Hudson
• 2018Puzzle — Agnes
• 2018Ralph Breaks the Internet — Merida (voice)
• 2018The Child in Time — Julie Lewis
• 2017Goodbye Christopher Robin — Olive Rand / Nou
• 2017T2 Trainspotting — Diane
• Urban Myths — Princess Margaret
• 2016Special Correspondents — Claire Maddox
• 2016Swallows and Amazons — Mrs. Walker
• 2016The Journey Is the Destination — Duff
• 2014Strap Hanging
• 2012Anna Karenina — Dolly
• 2012Brave — Merida (voice)
• Line of Duty — DCI Jo Davidson
• Black Mirror — Karin Parke
• 2011Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2 — Helena Ravenclaw
• 2011The Decoy Bride — Katie Nic Aodh
• Boardwalk Empire — Margaret Schroeder, Margaret Thompson
• 2009In the Electric Mist — Kelly Drummond
• 2009Skellig — Louise
• 2008Choke — Paige Marshall
• 2008The Merry Gentleman — Kate Frazier
• 2007No Country for Old Men — Carla Jean Moss
• 2006All the Invisible Children — Jonathan's wife (segment "Jonathan")
• 2005A Cock and Bull Story — Jenny
• 2005Lassie — Jeanie
• 2005Nanny McPhee — Evangeline
• 2005The Girl in the Café — Gina
• 2005The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy — Reporter
• 2004Finding Neverland — Peter Pan
• 2003Brush with Fate — Aletta Pieters
• 2003Intermission — Deirdre
• State of Play — Della Smith
• Alias — Kiera MacLaine / Meghan Keene
• 2001Gosford Park — Mary Maceachran
• 2001Strictly Sinatra — Irene
• 2000House! — Linda
• 2000Some Voices — Laura
• 2000Two Family House — Mary O'Neary
• 1999Entropy — Pia
• 1999My Life So Far — Elspeth Pettigrew
• 1999Splendor — Mike
• 1999The Loss of Sexual Innocence — Susan
• 1999Tube Tales — Emma (segment "Mr. Cool")
• 1998Cousin Bette — Hortense Hulot
• 1998Elizabeth — Isabel Knollys
• 1997Stella Does Tricks — Stella
• 1996Dancing, Some Days — Sharon
• 1996Dead Eye Dick
• 1996Flowers of the Forest — Amy Ogilvie
• 1996Trainspotting — Diane
• Screen Two — Amy Ogilvie
• Hallmark Hall of Fame — Aletta Pieters
• Dennis

Appearances as themselves (10)

• Lanterns: The Official Podcast — Self
• 2025This Ordinary Thing — Self (voice)
• 2024Royal Carols: Together at Christmas — Self
• Somebody Feed Phil — Self
• 2014The Final Shot: A Farewell to Boardwalk Empire — Self
• 2008Behind the Scenes of 'No Country for Old Men': An Incredibly Unauthorized Documentary — Self
• 2008Memories of "Trainspotting" — Self
• 2008The Making of 'No Country for Old Men' — Self - Carla Jean Moss
• The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson — Self
• 2002The Making of Gosford Park — Self