Kelly Macdonald Biography

Scottish actress Kelly Macdonald was planning to go to drama school when director Danny Boyle cast her in Trainspotting (1996). A surprise international hit, it featured Macdonald, a native of Glasgow, as the acid-tongued schoolgirl who gives heroin junkie Ewan McGregor one of the more memorable nights -- and surprises -- of his young life. Following the film's great success, Macdonald began finding steady work in a number of films as both a lead and supporting player. In the immediate wake of Trainspotting, she could be seen playing the title character, a teenage prostitute, in Stella Does Tricks. Subsequently, she nabbed a lead role in the period drama Cousin Bette (1997) and a small but memorable part in the lavish historical epic Elizabeth (1998). In 1999, Macdonald was featured in four very diverse films: the first, My Life So Far, cast her as a young girl growing up in 1920s Scotland, while Entropy featured the actress in the thoroughly modern milieu of the 20-something romantic angst drama. Later that year, Macdonald appeared in Mike Figgis' The Loss of Sexual Innocence, playing the young girlfriend of the film's protagonist; and in Gregg Araki's Splendor, a romantic comedy in which she played the blue-haired best friend of the film's heroine.After a slew of similar supporting roles, including a memorable turn as the daughter of Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio and Colin Firth in My Life So Far, MacDonald was given possibly her biggest break since Trainspotting when Robert Altman cast her as a lead (albeit one of many) in Gosford Park (2001). One-part comedy of manners, one-part murder mystery, the film featured MacDonald in the pivotal role of a young maid who finds herself caught up in a whirl of intrigue, deception, and exceedingly tiresome snobs over the course of a hectic weekend at a country estate. ~ Rebecca Flint Marx, Rovi

• 1. Carla Jean Moss: You don't have to do this.
  2. Anton Chigurh: People always say the same thing.
  3. Carla Jean Moss: What do they say?
  4. Anton Chigurh: They say, You don't have to do this.
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• 1. Merida: If you had the chance to change you fate would you?
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• 1. Helena Ravenclaw: [about Tom Riddle] He lied to me.
  2. Harry Potter: He's lied to many people-
  3. Helena Ravenclaw: I know who he is! I know what he's done! He defiled my mother's diadem with dark magic!
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• 1. Helena Ravenclaw: If you have to ask, you'll never know. If you already know, you need only ask.
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• 1. Helena Ravenclaw: [to Harry about Tom Riddle] Strange... You remind me of him a bit...
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• 1. Carla Jean Moss: I got a bad feeling, Llewelyn.
  2. Llewelyn Moss: Well I got a good feeling, so that should even out.
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• 1. Mary O'Neary: It's Mrs. O'Neary, Mr. Vasallo. I wouldn't dream of calling you by your first name.
  2. Buddy Visalo: Oh yeah well where's Mr. O'Neary?
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• 1. Helena Ravenclaw: If you have to ask, you'll never know. If you know, you need only ask.
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• 1. Helena Ravenclaw: I know who he is, I know what he's done! He defiled it with dark magic!
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• 1. Llewelyn Moss: Tell my mother I love her.
  2. Carla Jean Moss: Llewelyn, your mothers dead.
  3. Llewelyn Moss: Then I'll tell her myself.
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