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.
Filmography
Where the Heart Is
as T.V. Reporter (Stock Exchange) 1990
I've Heard the Mermaids Singing
as Mary Joseph 1987
Rubberface
as Merilee 1981
Forbidden Love: The Unashamed Stories of Lesbian Lives
as Narrator 1992
Her Desperate Choice
as Teacher 1996Interviews With My Next Girlfriend
2002
Where the Spirit Lives
as Kathleen 1990Counterfeit Culture
2013
Friends at Last
as Mother at School 1995
The Wars
as Rowena Ross 1983Facebook Follies
as Narrator 2011
The Pagan Christ
as Narrator (voice) 2007
Paris Hilton, Inc.
as Narrator (voice) 2009
Supervolcano: Yellowstone's Fury
as Narrator 2013
Paint Cans
as Inge Von Nerthus 1994
Unfinished Business
as Paula 1984