Jennifer MacDonald(I)
- Actress
- Producer
- Writer
Jennifer MacDonald was raised all over the US and Canada and has
traveled all over the world. At the tender age of sixteen, after
graduating high school, she enlisted in the US Army where she was
trained as an Arabic Linguist. She attended survival and jump schools
and was sent to work all over the Middle East as a cryptologic "voice
interceptor". She has also worked for various government organizations
as a translator. She speaks standard Arabic, Egyptian, Spanish and some
French. Making documentary films while in the Army encouraged MacDonald
to get into film-making after her departure from the service. While
working in film production in San Francisco, she got the acting bug.
MacDonald got her start in San Francisco as part of a twelve person
theater ensemble called "Lightfoot", a multicultural, multi-ethnic
group of actors dedicated to performing cutting edge material. Since
arriving in Los Angeles three years ago, MacDonald has appeared as a
guest star on several TV shows, including "The Adventures of Brisco
County Junior", "Dream On", "Red Shoe Diaries" and most recently
"Land's End" with Fred Dryer. She has a knack for attracting
interesting, off-beat material like the Showtime original movie "Dead
Weekend." MacDonald stars opposite Steven Baldwin as a homicidal,
multilingual Alien from the planet "Claire." In the psychological
thriller "Shades of Black," she plays a naive, young pro-bike racer
stalked by a schizophrenic performance artist. MacDonald also stars as
a fighter pilot opposite Mark Hamill in "Wing Commander III," the most
popular CD-Rom in history. MacDonald has studied with Jeff Corey, Brian
Reese, and with teachers from ACT San Francisco and Seattle Rep.
Inaddition to working theatrically in San Francisco, MacDonald has
written and performed in a series of original one act plays about the
Middle East. She also has a passion for martial arts and trap and skeet
shooting, both of which she has done all her life.