Ann-Marie MacDonald

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Ann-Marie MacDonald, 2015

Ann-Marie MacDonald (born October 29, 1958 on the Canadian military base CFB Baden-Soellingen near Rheinmünster , Germany) is a Canadian author, journalist and actress. She lives in Toronto , Ontario , Canada.

Life

Ann-Marie MacDonald graduated from the National Theater School of Canada Acting Program with success in 1980 and has since appeared in various fields.

She has been active as an actress in US and Canadian film and television productions since 1983. Her numerous roles include appearances in Airwolf and The L Word - When Women Love Women and in the comedy Better Than Chocolate .

As a novelist, she enjoyed success with both readers and literary critics with Fall on Your Knees (1996) and The Way the Crow Flies (2003) . On the theater stage, she became known beyond the borders of Canada with her Shakespeare parody Goodnight Desdemona (Good Morning Juliet) (1988). Her latest piece is called Belle Moral: A Natural History and was first performed in 2005.

Since 1996 she has hosted Life and Times for the Canadian television broadcaster CBC , a program that deals primarily, if not exclusively, with the biographies of Canadian celebrities. Nelson Mandela was also featured in Life and Times , for example .

Ann-Marie MacDonald was nominated for the Neustadt International Prize for Literature 2016, which was ultimately won by another author.

Works (selection)

Novels
  • Hear my pleading. Novel. (Fall on your knees, 1996) Translated from Astrid Arz. Piper, Munich 2000 ISBN 3-492-22974-3 (nominated for the Amazon.ca First Novel Award )
    • French version: Un parfum de cèdre. Traduit de l'anglais (Canada) by Lori St-Martin, Paul Gagné. France Loisirs 1999; Flammarion Quebec, Montreal 1999
  • Where the crows fly. Novel. (The Way the Crow Flies. A novel, 2003) Translated by Ulrike Wasel, Klaus Timmermann. Piper, Munich 2004 ISBN 3-492-04606-1 (based on the Steven Truscott case )
Plays
  • Goodnight Desdemona (Good Morning Juliet) ( "Goodnight Desdemona (Good Morning Juliet)," 1988). Fischer Bühnenverlag, Frankfurt 1999
  • The Arab's Mouth. A play . Blizzard Publ., Winnipeg 1995 ISBN 0-921368-52-6
  • The Attic, the Pearls and Three Fine Girls. A play . PUC Play Press, Toronto 1995
  • Belle morale. A natural history. A play . Vintage Canada Books, Toronto 2004 ISBN 978-0-307-39724-9

Filmography (selection)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Finalists Announced for the 24th Neustadt International Prize for Literature. Lyrikzeitung.com, May 27, 2015, accessed June 3, 2015 .
personal data
SURNAME MacDonald, Ann-Marie
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Canadian actress, writer and television presenter
DATE OF BIRTH October 29, 1958
PLACE OF BIRTH CFB Baden-Soellingen , Rheinmünster , Germany