Danielle Macdonald

About

Danielle Louise Macdonald (born 19 May 1991) is an Australian actress. After moving to America at the age of 18 to pursue her career, she made her acting debut with a variety of small roles on television, before her feature film debut in 2013. She gained wider recognition in 2017 with her first leading role in the drama film Patti Cake$ and a supporting role in Bird Box. Her career continued with her breakthrough role as the titular lead in Dumplin’ (2018).
Macdonald has since starred in the films Bird Box, Skin (both 2018), Paradise Hills, I Am Woman (both 2019), French Exit (2020), and If I Had Legs I’d Kick You (2025). She has also acted in the Netflix series Unbelievable (2019), and the BBC One/Stan/HBO Max thriller series The Tourist (2022–2024), and the miniseries The Last Anniversary (2025).

Danielle Louise Macdonald, who is of Italian and Scottish heritage, was born in Sydney in 1991.
Having taken performing arts classes in grade 8, she moved on to improv and screen classes when she was in grade 10. She attended the Australian Institute for Performing Arts in Artarmon, New South Wales. When she was 17, Macdonald took some acting classes in Los…