Sharman Macdonald at Aldeburgh with music by Deirdre Gribbin, and "Lu Lah, Lu Lah" (2010) commissioned for a young all-female cast and performed at the Cheltenham Ladies' College in Cheltenham. Macdonald is married to the actor Will Knightley. They have two children, Caleb and actress Keira Knightley. Sharman Macdonald Sharman Macdonald (born 8 February 1951) is a Scottish playwright, screenwriter, and actress. Macdonald was born in Glasgow, the daughter of Janet Rewat (née Williams) and Joseph Henry Hosgood MacDonald. She has Scottish and Welsh ancestry. Macdonald was educated at the University of Edinburgh, from which she graduated in 1972. She credits fellow
Macdonald Macdonald MacDonald, Macdonald, and McDonald are Scottish and Irish surnames. These surnames are Anglicised forms of the Scottish Gaelic and Irish Gaelic MacDhòmhnaill or Dòmhnallach. The name is a patronym meaning "son of Dòmhnall". The personal name "Dòmhnall" is composed of the elements "domno" "world" and "val" "might", "rule". According to Alex Woolf, the Gaelic personal name is probably a borrowing from the British Celtic "Dyfnwal". In the context of Scottish clans, the various forms of the name refer to one of the largest clans, Clan Donald. In Scottish surname data, no distinction is made between, for instance, "Macdonald" and