Kelly MacDonald Biography

Kelly Macdonald (born February 23, 1976) is a Scottish actress, born in Glasgow, Scotland. Her career began when she saw a leaflet advertising an open casting session for what would become the movie Trainspotting, in which she played the part of Diane, the underage seductress to Ewan McGregor's Renton. Other roles include a reporter in The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy and Peter Pan in Finding Neverland.

On television, her highest-profile roles have been in two BBC dramas, the Paul Abbott serial State of Play (2003) and the one-off Richard Curtis piece The Girl in the Café (2005).
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Both of these were directed by David Yates, and both also starred Bill Nighy. For her performance in The Girl in the Café, Macdonald was nominated for a Golden Globe Award in 2006.

In August 2003 she married Travis' bass player Dougie Payne.

Macdonald stars in the 2005 film Nanny McPhee, in which she plays the scullery maid Evangeline.

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