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
Flora MacDonald her in North Carolina, including Flora MacDonald College; from 1956, the college hosted the Flora MacDonald Highland Games, which were replaced in 2009 by the Scotland County Highland Games. Flora was painted several times by Scottish portrait artist Allan Ramsay (1713–1784), who also produced a famous but now lost painting of Prince Charles at Edinburgh in 1745. The one that appears in this article was done after her release from the Tower in 1749–1750; in 2015, a second, previously unrecorded painting of MacDonald also by Ramsay was discovered in Florida. "Flora MacDonald's Fancy" is a Scottish highland dance choreographed in