Kelly Macdonald (born ) is a
Scottish Emmy Award- and
Screen Actors Guild Award-winning actress.
Early life
Macdonald was born in
Glasgow,
Scotland. Her mother was a
garment industry sales executive.
[Kelly Macdonald Biography (1976-). filmreference.com. Retrieved on 22 January 2008.] Her parents divorced when she was young. She and her younger brother were raised by her mother on a
council estate in the town of
Newton Mearns. Macdonald attended Eastwood High School. Her family moved around frequently when she was a child.
Macdonald moved away from home when she was 17 years old. She took a college course in modern studies while living with a friend in Glasgow, but she soon dropped out of the class.
