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
Gopal Sharman and director with his very first production, "Full Circle", a collection of his stories and poems dramatically performed by his actress wife, Jalabala Vaidya . "Full Circle" had its London premiere at the Mercury Theatre, where T.S. Eliot's "Murder in the Cathedral" and Christopher Fry's "Ascent of F6" had also had their world premieres. The Sunday Times hailed Sharman as a "new major poet" and said of Jalabala Vaidya: "she performs exquisitely" . The Guardian described Sharman as "a Renaissance man who would leave any Medici panting well in the rear". The production, an inspired view of contemporary India with