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Nationality
  
British

Spouse
  
Will Knightley (m. 1976)

Role
  
Playwright

Name
  
Sharman Macdonald

Period
  
1984–present


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Born
  
8 February 1951 (age 73) Glasgow, Scotland, U.K. (
1951-02-08
)

Occupation
  
Playwright, screenwriter, former actress

Genre
  
Drama, fiction, libretto, radio drama, screenplay

Subject
  
Mother/daughter relationships

Children
  
Keira Knightley, Caleb Knightley

Movies
  
The Edge of Love, The Winter Guest, Wild Flowers

Books
  
The Girl with Red Hair, All Things Nice, Shades

Plays
  
After Juliet, When I Was A Girl - I Used To, The Winter Guest

Similar People
  
Will Knightley, Keira Knightley, Caleb Knightley, James Righton, John Maybury

Keira Knightley [Drama Queen]


Sharman Macdonald (born 8 February 1951) is a Scottish playwright, screenwriter, and actress.

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Life and career

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Macdonald was born in Glasgow, the daughter of Janet Rewat (née Williams) and Joseph Henry Hosgood MacDonald. She has Scottish and Welsh ancestry. Macdonald was educated at the University of Edinburgh, from which she graduated in 1972. She credits fellow Scot Ian Charleson with supporting and encouraging her to follow her theatrical aspirations, and she later contributed a chapter to the 1990 book, For Ian Charleson: A Tribute. Macdonald moved to London after university, and worked as an actress with the 7:84 Theatre Company and at the Royal Court Theatre. Although her acting career included 7 years of television work, she eventually left it, due in large part to stage fright.

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While working as an actress, Macdonald wrote her first play, When I Was a Girl, I Used to Scream and Shout; it was first performed at the Bush Theatre in 1984, and won her the Evening Standard Award for most promising playwright. Some of the themes in Scream and Shout were inspired by games that her son, Caleb, played with his friends. Of this, Macdonald has said that "it's the result of a bet, this writing life. I was desperate for a second child. Desperate never to act again. Most of all desperate to stop eating lentils, French bread and tomatoes. We were broke, Will and me. We had one child. My hormones were screaming at me to have another. So. Will bet me a child for the sale of a script".

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Her other work includes The Brave, commissioned by the Bush Theatre; When We Were Women, first performed at the Cottesloe Theatre; All Things Nice, commissioned by the English Stage Company and first performed at the Royal Court Theatre in 1991; The Winter Guest, which was made into a film, in 1997, directed by Alan Rickman; The Girl With Red Hair (2005), which had its first reading in August 2003; and Windfall a film adaptation of Penny Vincenzi's best-selling novel PiVotal Pictures.

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She has written two plays for the National Theatre's Shell Connections programme; After Juliet (in which Macdonald's daughter Keira starred as a young girl), and 2006's Broken Hallelujah.

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Macdonald's resume also includes the novels The Beast (1986) and Night Night (1988), the radio plays (for the BBC) such as Sea Urchins and Gladly My Cross Eyed Bear (1999), the libretto to Hey Persephone!, performed at Aldeburgh with music by Deirdre Gribbin, and Lu Lah, Lu Lah (2010) commissioned for a young all-female cast and performed at the Cheltenham Ladies' College in Cheltenham.

Personal life

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Macdonald is married to the actor Will Knightley. They have two children, Caleb and actress Keira Knightley.

Selected writings

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  • When I Was a Girl, I Used to Scream and Shout (1984, stage play)
  • The Beast (1986, gently surreal novel about a family picnic at Kenwood in Hampstead) Collins, ISBN 0-00-223021-6
  • The Brave (1988, stage play)
  • When We Were Women (stage play)
  • Night Night (1988, novel about a 1980s family in emotional freefall) Collins, ISBN 0-00-223311-8
  • Soft Fall the Sounds of Eden (2004, radio play)

  • Sharman Macdonald Lainey Gossip Entertainment UpdateKeira Knightley

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    References

    Sharman Macdonald Wikipedia


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