Ann-Marie MacDonald

Biography

Ann-Marie MacDonald (born October 29, 1958) is a Canadian playwright, novelist, actor, and broadcast journalist who lives in Toronto, Ontario. The daughter of a member of Canada's military, she was born at an air force base near Baden-Baden, West Germany. She won the Commonwealth Writers Prize for her first novel, Fall on Your Knees, which was also named to Oprah Winfrey's Book Club. Her 2003 novel, The Way the Crow Flies, was partly inspired by the Steven Truscott case. She received the Governor General's Award for Literary Merit, the Floyd S. Chalmers Canadian Play Award and the Canadian Author's Association Award for her play, Goodnight Desdemona (Good Morning Juliet). She appeared in the films I've Heard the Mermaids Singing, and Better Than Chocolate, among others. She also hosted the CBC Documentary series Life and Times (1996-2007). Description above from the Wikipedia article Ann-Marie MacDonald, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

Known For

The L Word

as Julia

Airwolf

as Anna LeBlanc

Airwolf

as Sandra

Better Than Chocolate

as Frances

Due South

as Psychologist

The New Alfred Hitchcock Presents

as Denise Tyler

The New Alfred Hitchcock Presents

as Ellen Blanchard

Where the Heart Is

as T.V. Reporter (Stock Exchange)

I've Heard the Mermaids Singing

as Mary Joseph

Rubberface

as Merilee