- Born
- Birth nameSharman S. Macdonald
- Sharman Macdonald was born on February 8, 1951 in Glasgow, Scotland, UK. She is an actress and writer, known for The Edge of Love (2008), Silver Ghost and The Winter Guest (1997). She has been married to Will Knightley since 1976. They have two children.
- SpouseWill Knightley(1976 - present) (2 children)
- Children
- Mother of Keira Knightley & Caleb Knightley
- Her 1997 play, "The Winter Guest", was adapted into a film and directed by the actor Alan Rickman, with whom she is good friends.
- Educated at the University of Edinburgh.
- Her first play "When I Was a Girl I Use to Scream and Shout," written while performing as an actress at the Royal Court Theatre, won the Evening Standard Award for "most promising playwright."
- She is of Scottish and Welsh ancestry.
- My daughter is followed all the time she's out. I'm lost in admiration for the way that she deals with it, but the paparazzi are an accident waiting to happen. The way they drive, you think, my God.
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