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
Ruth Hale (playwright and actress) of theaters featuring a center stage (arena theaters or Theater in the round) throughout Utah and Arizona. The Hales were also playwrights. They wrote their first play together, "Handcart Trails," to save on the budget of a ward play production in Granger in the 1930s. This play was published in the "MIA Book of Plays" in 1940. Their play, "Melody Jones", was shown to a national audience by Kurt Television Theatre. Ruth Hale's grandchildren include: Ruth Hale (playwright and actress) Ruth Hale (October 14, 1908 – April 20, 2003) was an American playwright and actress. Hale was born in Granger,