Kelly Macdonald
Kelly Macdonald
Kelly Macdonaldis a Scottish actress, known for her roles in the films Trainspotting, Gosford Park, Intermission, Nanny McPhee, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows – Part 2and Brave. For the 2005 TV film The Girl in the Cafe, she was nominated for a Golden Globe and won the Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Miniseries or Movie. She was part of the cast of the famous miniseries State of Play portraying the role of Della Smith...
NationalityScottish
ProfessionMovie Actress
Date of Birth23 February 1976
CityGlasgow, Scotland
We have over 300 guys playing, it's becoming very popular. I think we'll eventually start a women's league for the senior players.
You have unqualified people taking risks, taking work from qualified people.
We were talking about how bad we felt. The girls are getting sponsors for how many miles they run, for how much time they drop on their personal bests or just flat donations.
Timewise, everyone knocked at least 30 seconds off their time (from last year on the course). Our top three (LeBreck, Campbell and Hoklas) have been interchangeable.
L.A. is brilliant, but however long my trip is I'm always ready to leave. But New York I'm never quite happy to see the back of.
What I'm normally associated with are darker, more brooding roles.
It's just the way I'm made. I do feel confident in what I do. It doesn't always work out 100% of the time, but generally I think I can do it quite well. But the other part of my job is doing the press and stuff. And I'm rubbish at that. I'm really not good at that at all - this quite important part of what I do.
A few years ago, if you had told me I'd be moving back to Glasgow I'd have said, 'No way'. But it's changed. It's much more vibrant, bohemian. But I'm 35 and I've become a bit of a homebody, I don't really go out much. Same in New York. My home could be anywhere but I love Glasgow.
They're naughty, all those writers - they mess around with people. I know James Gandolfini got a bit fed up on 'The Sopranos': if he said anything in front of a writer, told them a story from his life, it could make its way into the script.
I don't lobby where work is concerned. As long as I know I've got something coming up, I don't really worry. It's not that I'm not ambitious, but I don't have a drive to be hugely successful and be working all the time.
I get claustrophobic in a harness. I'd be a terrible superhero.
I love that thing on Amazon that you can go on and order a book, and you click on it and it says, 'You might also like,' or 'Other people who bought this have bought that.
I tend to get cast as a certain type of quiet, almost introverted person who's strong on the inside, but the characters are so very different I don't see it as any kind of typecasting.
I'm no good at anecdotes.