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
Scottish English and overt Scotticisms, usually used for stylistic effect, with those using them aware of their Scottish nature. Scottish English has inherited a number of lexical items from Scots, which are less common in other forms of standard English. General items are "wee", the Scots word for small (also common in New Zealand English, probably under Scottish influence); "bairn" for child (from Common Germanic, cf modern Swedish, Norwegian, Danish, Icelandic, Faroese "barn", West Frisian "bern" and also used in Northern English dialects); "bonnie" for pretty, attractive, (or good looking, handsome, as in the case of Bonnie Prince Charlie); "braw" for fine;