Ann-Marie MacDonald

Born: 1958-10-29

Birthplace: Baden-Baden, West Germany

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

Better Than Chocolate
Forbidden Love: The Unashamed Stories of Lesbian Lives
Where the Heart Is
Her Desperate Choice
Where the Spirit Lives
I've Heard the Mermaids Singing
Rubberface
Friends at Last
The Wars
Unfinished Business

Top Movie Credits

Where the Heart Is T.V. Reporter (Stock Exchange)
Rubberface Merilee
Friends at Last Mother at School
The Wars Rowena Ross