Ann-Marie MacDonald
Novelist, Author
1958 –
Who is Ann-Marie MacDonald?
Ann-Marie MacDonald 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.
MacDonald won the Commonwealth Writers Prize for her first novel, Fall on Your Knees, which was selected as a "pick" for Oprah Winfrey's Book Club. She received the Governor General's Award for Literary Merit, the Floyd S. Chalmers Canadian Play Award and the Canadian Authors Association Award for her play, Goodnight Desdemona.
MacDonald hosted the CBC documentary series Life and Times from 1996 to 2007, and currently hosts CBC's flagship documentary program, Doc Zone. She appeared in the films I've Heard the Mermaids Singing and Better Than Chocolate, among others. Her 2003 novel, The Way the Crow Flies, was partly inspired by the Steven Truscott case.
MacDonald's partner is playwright and theatre director Alisa Palmer.
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- Born
- Oct 29, 1958
CFB Baden-Soellingen - Also known as
- Ann Marie MacDonald
- Anne Marie MacDonald
- Anne-Marie MacDonald
- Ann - Marie MacDonald
- Spouses
- Alisa Palmer
(2003 - )
- Alisa Palmer
- Nationality
- Germany
- Canada
- Profession
- Education
- National Theatre School of Canada
- Carleton University
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on July 23, 2013
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