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Sharman Macdonald was born on 8 February, 1951 in Glasgow, Scotland, is a Scottish playwright (born 1951). Discover Sharman Macdonald's Biography, Age, Height, Physical Stats, Dating/Affairs, Family and career updates. Learn How rich is she in this year and how she spends money? Also learn how she earned most of networth at the age of 73 years old?
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Playwright, screenwriter, former actress |
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73 years old |
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Aquarius |
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8 February, 1951 |
Birthday |
8 February |
Birthplace |
Glasgow, Scotland |
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United Kingdom
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She is a member of famous Playwright with the age 73 years old group.
Sharman Macdonald Height, Weight & Measurements
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Who Is Sharman Macdonald's Husband?
Her husband is Will Knightley (m. 1976)
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Husband |
Will Knightley (m. 1976) |
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2, including Keira Knightley |
Sharman Macdonald Net Worth
Her net worth has been growing significantly in 2023-2024. So, how much is Sharman Macdonald worth at the age of 73 years old? Sharman Macdonald’s income source is mostly from being a successful Playwright. She is from United Kingdom. We have estimated Sharman Macdonald's net worth, money, salary, income, and assets.
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$1 Million - $5 Million |
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Timeline
Sharman Macdonald (born 8 February 1951) is a Scottish playwright, screenwriter, and actress.
Macdonald was born in Glasgow, the daughter of Janet Rewat (née Williams) and Joseph Henry Hosgood MacDonald.
She has Scottish and Welsh ancestry.
Macdonald was educated at the University of Edinburgh, from which she graduated in 1972.
While working as an actress, Macdonald wrote her first play, When I Was a Girl, I Used to Scream and Shout; it was first performed at the Bush Theatre in 1984, and won her the Evening Standard Award for most promising playwright.
Some of the themes in Scream and Shout were inspired by games that her son Caleb played with his friends.
Of this, Macdonald has said that "it's the result of a bet, this writing life. I was desperate for a second child. Desperate never to act again. Most of all desperate to stop eating lentils, French bread and tomatoes. We were broke, Will and me. We had one child. My hormones were screaming at me to have another. So. Will bet me a child for the sale of a script".
Actor Alan Rickman, then a reader, found it in the unsolicited script pile and told the Bush they should put it on.
Macdonald's resume also includes the novels The Beast (1986) and Night Night (1988), the radio plays (for the BBC) such as Sea Urchins and Gladly My Cross Eyed Bear (1999), the libretto to Hey Persephone!, performed at Aldeburgh with music by Deirdre Gribbin, and Lu Lah, Lu Lah (2010) commissioned for a young all-female cast and performed at the Cheltenham Ladies' College in Cheltenham.
They have two children, composer Caleb Knightley and two-time Academy Award-nominated actress Keira Knightley.
She credits fellow Scot Ian Charleson with supporting and encouraging her to follow her theatrical aspirations, and she later contributed a chapter to the 1990 book, For Ian Charleson: A Tribute.
Macdonald moved to London after university, and worked as an actress with the 7:84 Theatre Company and at the Royal Court Theatre.
Although her acting career included 7 years of television work, she eventually left it, due in large part to stage fright.
Macdonald's other work includes The Brave, commissioned by the Bush Theatre; When We Were Women, first performed at the Cottesloe Theatre; All Things Nice, commissioned by the English Stage Company and first performed at the Royal Court Theatre in 1991; The Winter Guest, which was made into a film, in 1997, directed by Alan Rickman; The Girl With Red Hair (2005), which had its first reading in August 2003; and Windfall a film adaptation of Penny Vincenzi's best-selling novel PiVotal Pictures.
She has written two plays for the National Theatre's Shell Connections programme; After Juliet (in which Macdonald's daughter Keira starred as a young girl), and 2006's Broken Hallelujah.