Wikipedia / Shauna MacDonald (Canadian actress)
Wikipedia / Shauna MacDonald (Canadian actress)
Shauna MacDonald is a Canadian television and film actress, director, producer, writer, voice actor, and radio announcer. She became known for her role as the national continuity announcer for CBC Radio One.
Life and career
MacDonald was born in Antigonish, Nova Scotia. She graduated from Dr. John Hugh Gillis Regional High School in Antigonish and later attended Montreal's McGill University, earning a degree in Russian and Slavic Studies.
She became known as the national continuity announcer for CBC Radio One, a role she held from the start of Radio One's 2004 summer season. With MacDonald's identity kept secret, the voice was quickly dubbed Promo Girl. MacDonald's identity was exposed by The Globe and Mail in 2005. The promo spots were taken over in May 2007 by Jeremy Harris.
In the summer of 2005, Radio One ran a series of weekly "comedy-mysteries" starring MacDonald, along with other Radio One personalities, titled Promo Girl in The Mystery of.... Short segments designed to highlight various CBC Radio programmes and the upcoming fall season were repeated a number of times each day, with prizes going to listeners who correctly solved the various clues or mysteries. The series was not completed due to a lockout of CBC employees that began in the late summer.
MacDonald has appeared in various Canadian series, including Trailer Park Boys (as Officer Erica Miller), These Arms of Mine (as Claire Monroe), and This Hour Has 22 Minutes (as a substitute newsreader), among other roles. In 2003 she starred in the two-part miniseries Shattered City: The Halifax Explosion. She has also appeared in an episode of Reign. MacDonald also played Tara in Saw VI, and reprised the role in Saw 3D.
She received a 2009 ACTRA Award nomination for Outstanding Performance – Female for her role as Lily in the short film Loving Loretta (2008).
In 2013, MacDonald and Kate Johnston co-wrote and co-directed the film Tru Love, in which MacDonald also starred. The film won the Best Feature Film Audience Award at the Toronto Inside / Out Film Festival in 2014.
Filmography
Film
Year | Title | Role | Notes |
1997 | Someone to Love | Ex Girlfriend | Short film |
1998 | Jill | ||
1998 | Apocalypse: Caught in the Eye of the Storm | Kerry | Video |
2002 | Anna MacKenzie | ||
2002 | Wendy Marshall | ||
2003 | Lisa | ||
2004 | Emma Walker | ||
2004 | Velma | Short film | |
2005 | Celia | ||
2007 | Monica Tepper | ||
2007 | Joan | ||
2008 | Production Office | Jane | |
2008 | Loving Loretta | Lily | Short film |
2008 | Lowry | ||
2009 | Erin | ||
2009 | |||
2009 | Doppelganger | Lenny 'The Weasel' | Short film |
2010 | Ninety-One | Simone | Short film |
2010 | Love Letter from an Open Grave | Mona | Short film |
2010 | Tara Abbott | ||
2012 | Seven Years | Sandra | Short film |
2012 | Brenda | ||
2012 | Attachments | Davina | Short film |
2013 | Tru | Producer, co-director (with Kate Johnston), screenwriter | |
2013 | Stormcloud | Short film; producer | |
2014 | Siren | Impatient Woman | Short film |
2017 | Unplugged | Mom | Short film |
2018 | Reporter | ||
2019 | Bird’s Mother | ||
2019 | Ring Ring | Carol | Short film |
2019 | Business Ethics | Fräulein Stumpf | |
2026 | Nina Semonovna |
Television
Year | Title | Role | Notes |
1997 | Naomi (voice) | Episode: "Panther Uncaged" | |
1998 | Katya Petrenko | Episode: "If You Could Read My Mind" | |
1999 | Lachesis (voice) | Episode: "Damon and Pythias" | |
1999 | Mom (voice) | Episode: "Monsters Ate My Homework" | |
1999–2001 | Claire Monroe | Recurring role: 12 episodes | |
2003 | Dr. Barbara Paxton | TV film | |
2003–2004 | Officer Erica Miller | Episodes: "Where in the Fuck Is Randy's Barbeque?", "The Delusions of Officer Jim Lahey", "A Shit Leopard Can't Change Its Spots", "A Man's Gotta Eat" | |
2003–2005 | Kiki Barnes | Main. 24 episodes. | |
2004 | Yvonne | "One of Us" | |
2004 | While I Was Gone | Detective Geary | TV film |
2004 | Dana Goyer | Episode: "Snack Daddy" | |
2005 | Jen Brooks | Episode: "208" | |
2005 | Nona | TV film | |
2006 | Heather Michelle | Episode: "Dim & Dimmer" | |
2006 | Ophelia McCoy | Episode: "A Few Feuds" | |
2006 | Erika Bell | Episode: "Eyes for Windows" | |
2006 | Tammi (voice) | Episode: "Handlin' the Bike" | |
2006–2007 | Dorota | Episodes: "Body by Jeff", "Some of My Best Friends Are Queer", "To Kill a Mocking Man", "The Auto-Fish 9000" | |
2007 | Jezebel / Lydia / Naomi (voice) | 6 episodes | |
2007 | Mary Hawke | Episode: "Mommie Dearest" | |
2008 | Olga | Episode: "Driving Lessons" | |
2008 | Ruth Skellar | Episode: "Who's George?" | |
2008 | Grace Coleman | Episodes: "Revelations", "Crash!" | |
2008 | Cougar | Episode: "Fight and Flight – Part 2" | |
2008 | Amy | Episodes: "Gas Pills", "Uber-Glued", "Project X" | |
2009 | Margaret | Episode: "Lisa Says" | |
2009 | Amanda Landers | Recurring role: 12 episodes | |
2009–2010 | Marjorie | Episodes: "Papa Can You Hear Me?", "Physician, Heal Thyself" | |
2009–2011 | Alana Richards | Recurring role: 11 episodes | |
2010 | Charlotte | Episode: "The Return of the Grievous Angel" | |
2010 | Cynthia | TV film | |
2010 | Violetta | TV film | |
2010 | Sutton Harris | Episode: "Age Before Beauty" | |
2010 | Dean Peretti | Episode: "Oh Kappa, My Kappa" | |
2010 | Nautica 5000 (voice) | Episode: "20,000 VJ's Under the Sea" | |
2011 | Janet Auchincloss | Episode: "The First Campaign" | |
2011 | Carol | TV film | |
2011 | Emma | Episode: "What's the Frequency, Kenneth?" | |
2012 | Mrs. Billings | Episode: "Murdoch of the Klondike" | |
2012–2014 | Mrs. Novak | Episodes: "Got Your Money: Part 1", "Got Your Money: Part 2", "My Hero" | |
2013 | Dr. Vanessa Currie | Episodes: "What We Can't See", "The Light in Black" | |
2013 | Yvonne Hegarty | Episode: "Love Hurts" | |
2013 | Pippa | Episode: "Love, Labour, Loss" | |
2013 | Sheila Burke | Episode: "Defense" | |
2013 | Audrey Harding | Episode: "Friday the 13th" | |
2013 | Twelve Trees of Christmas | Better Greven | TV film |
2013 | Kid's Town | Sue Redshaw | Episodes: "Your File", "Reason to Stay" |
2014 | Detective Parker | Episode: "Bad Blood" | |
2014 | Hortenza de' Medici | Episode: "Higher Ground" | |
2014 | Dr. Galina Zhelezhnova-Burdukovskaya | Recurring role: 9 episodes | |
2014 | Karen Woods | Episode: "I Can't Go Back" | |
2014 | Helen | TV film | |
2015 | Lily Bevelaqua | Episode: "Bad Dreams" | |
2015 | The Plateaus | Young Nun #1 | Episode: "1.10" |
2015 | Lead With Your Heart | Catherine | TV film |
2016 | Jeanne de Mohrenschildt | Episodes: "The Rabbit Hole"; "Other Voices, Other Rooms"; "Happy Birthday, Lee Harvey Oswald" | |
2016 | AUSA Samantha Polley | Episodes: "New Shooter", "Hardboiled", "Baggage" | |
2016 | Group Home | Nancy | TV film |
2016 | A Nutcracker Christmas | Sharon | TV film |
2014 | Alexis Duspleis | Episode: "Regeneration" | |
2017 | Olivia | Episode: "The List" | |
2018–2019 | Tammy Mackey | Recurring role: 11 episodes | |
2019 | Lorraine | Episode: "Harley Insisted On Wearing Pants" | |
2022 | Tina | 3 episodes |
Video game
Year | Title | Role | Notes |
2016 | Voice |
See also
References
External links
Shauna MacDonald at CBC Media Centre (2018)