Lorn Macdonald
About Lorn Macdonald
Lorn was the winner of the Best Actor in Film Scottish BAFTA 2019 for his performance as 'Spanner' in Beats (dir. Brian Welsh). He was also nominated for Best Actor in the 2019 Off West End Awards for his performance in Mouthpiece (dir. Orla O'Laughlin). Lorn graduated from the Royal Scottish Conservatoire in 2015.
Theatre includes: Life is a Dream (Edinburgh Lyceum); Mouthpiece (Traverse Theatre); Miss Julie (Horsecross Arts); Long Day’s Journey into Night (Citizen's Theatre Glasgow / Home Manchester); Trainspotting (Citizens Theatre), Oresteia: This Restless House (Citizens Theatre, Glasgow / Royal Lyceum Theatre, Edinburgh); Boys (Headlong for HighTide), What We Know (Traverse Theatre Scotland); DNA (NT Connections (Lyceum Youth Theatre)); End of Season Productions (Lyceum Youth Theatre); Parsifal (Festival Theatre Edinburgh); Shine (King's Theatre Edinburgh); Shut Up (Broughton Youth Theatre); Six Characters in Search of an Author (National Theatre Scotland, Lyceum, Citizens co-production); Summer on Stage (Lyceum Youth Theatre); The Miracle (NT Connections (Traverse and Lyceum) (Lyceum Youth Theatre)).
Film includes: Beats (Rosetta Productions); Living in Fear (Eleven Film); Bruadar a' Bhais (Sorbier Productions); Imorato (BHS); Night People (MeadKerr), 12th Man (Short film) (Aidan O'Mara); Baby Dear (Short film) (The Met Film School); Go: More than Impulse (Short film) (BHS).
Television includes: Extinction (Urban Myth Films); Bridgerton (Shondaland / Netflix); Deadwater Fell (Kudos); Shetland (ITV); Outlander Series 3 (Starz!); World’s End (BBC); Neverland (Sky Movies & Sy Fy); Mighty Midge (BBC Scotland / CBBC).
Radio work includes The Princess Bride (BBC Radio); Trip the Light Fantastic; Boswell at Large (BBC Radio 4); Voices from World War One (BBC Scotland).
Image by Tom Oxley