Alexandra "Allie" MacDonald (born September 17, 1988) is a Canadian actress.
Early life
MacDonald was born in
Antigonish
Antigonish ( ; ) is a town in Antigonish County, Nova Scotia, Canada. The town is home to St. Francis Xavier University and the oldest continuous Highland games outside Scotland. It is approximately 160 kilometres (100 miles) northeast of Hal ...
,
Nova Scotia
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, Canada, to parents Peter and Chrissy MacDonald.
She studied musical theatre at the Canadian College of Performing Arts in
Victoria, British Columbia
Victoria is the capital city of the Provinces and territories of Canada, Canadian province of British Columbia, on the southern tip of Vancouver Island off Canada's Pacific Ocean, Pacific coast. The city has a population of 91,867, and the Gre ...
.
Career
She made her feature film debut as Eve in ''
Score: A Hockey Musical'' (2010).
She has appeared in independent films, short films and television shows. She starred in the films ''
The Barrens'' (2012),
''
House at the End of the Street'' (2012),
''
And Now a Word from Our Sponsor'' (2013), the horror-musical film, ''
Stage Fright
Stage fright or performance anxiety is the anxiety, fear, or persistent phobia that may be aroused in an individual by the requirement to perform in front of an audience, real or imagined, whether actually or potentially (for example, when perf ...
'' (2014),
and the neonoir film ''
Under the Silver Lake'' (2018).
Her most notable television roles are Belinda McKay in the Canadian comedy
Young Drunk Punk.
and Trina on ''
Orphan Black
''Orphan Black'' is a Canadian science-fiction thriller television series created by screenwriter Graeme Manson and director John Fawcett and starring Tatiana Maslany. The series focuses on Sarah Manning, one of several genetically identica ...
''.
She appeared as Edie Soames in the CTV mini-series
Cardinal
Cardinal or The Cardinal most commonly refers to
* Cardinalidae, a family of North and South American birds
**''Cardinalis'', genus of three species in the family Cardinalidae
***Northern cardinal, ''Cardinalis cardinalis'', the common cardinal of ...
.
She released her debut
EP 'Thank You' on December 20, 2016, under the pseudonym Sureilla.
Filmography
Film
Television
References
External links
*
1988 births
20th-century Canadian actresses
21st-century Canadian actresses
21st-century Canadian women singers
Best Supporting Actress in a Drama Series Canadian Screen Award winners
Canadian film actresses
Canadian television actresses
Canadian women singers
Living people
People from Antigonish, Nova Scotia
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