Kelly Macdonald

Kelly Macdonald

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).

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Kelly Macdonald Movies

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Operation Mincemeat (2022)

Drama History War
It sounds like the plot of a fever dream: dress a corpse as a British officer, fill his briefcase with forged military documents, and let the tides of wartime Spain...
Score 6.5
2

Brave (2012)

Adventure Animation Family
Merida is a Scottish princess with a bow in her hand and no interest in the future her mother has planned for her. When she rebels against an ancient tradition,...
Score 7.0
3

Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2 (2011)

Adventure Fantasy
The war for the wizarding world reaches Hogwarts itself, and the school that once felt like home becomes a battlefield. Harry, Ron, and Hermione have been hunting Horcruxes in the...
Score 8.1
4

The Decoy Bride (2011)

Comedy Drama Romance
When a famous Hollywood actress sneaks off to a remote Scottish island for a quiet wedding, the press follows her everywhere. The solution, cooked up by desperate handlers, is to...
Score 6.0
5

No Country for Old Men (2007)

Crime Thriller Western
A West Texas hunting trip turns catastrophic when Llewelyn Moss walks into the aftermath of a drug deal gone wrong and walks out carrying two million dollars he has no...
Score 7.9
6

Trainspotting (1996)

Crime Drama
Edinburgh in the 1990s is a brutal place to be young and strung out. Mark Renton knows this better than anyone, cycling through relapses, petty schemes, and the company of...
Score 8.0

Kelly Macdonald TV Shows

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1

Lanterns (2026)

Mystery Sci-Fi & Fantasy
When a murder surfaces in the quiet American heartland, it pulls two Green Lanterns into territory far stranger than deep space. Hal Jordan, a seasoned veteran of the interstellar beat,...
Score -.-
2

Dept. Q (2025)

Crime Drama Mystery
Edinburgh has no shortage of unsolved cases, and Detective Carl Morck has no shortage of opinions about how they should be handled. Reassigned to a basement unit most of his...
Score 7.9
3

Giri/Haji (2019)

Crime Drama
A Tokyo detective crosses hemispheres to find his younger brother, a man everyone believes is dead and the trigger behind a yakuza killing that could ignite a city-wide war. The...
Score 7.4
4

Line of Duty (2012)

Crime Drama Mystery
AC-12 exists to police the police, and nobody inside the force is happy about it. Jed Mercurio's procedural drama follows a specialist anticorruption unit as it pursues officers suspected of...
Score 8.2
5

Boardwalk Empire (2010)

Crime Drama
Atlantic City, 1920. The moment Prohibition takes effect, it creates not a dry nation but an extraordinarily wet opportunity. Enoch 'Nucky' Thompson, the city's treasurer, understands this better than anyone....
Score 8.0

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What are the highest-rated movies starring Kelly Macdonald? +
According to aggregate user scores, the absolute best titles starring Kelly Macdonald are Operation Mincemeat, Brave, and Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2.
How many movies and TV shows has Kelly Macdonald starred in? +
Our database currently features a comprehensive filmography of 11 titles starring Kelly Macdonald, ranging from their earliest roles to the newest releases.
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Yes! The overall filmography starring Kelly Macdonald maintains a strong average user rating of 7.5 out of 10 across all tracked titles.