Shauna MacDonald is a Canadian

Canada

Canada is a North American country consisting of ten provinces and three territories. Located in the northern part of the continent, it extends from the Atlantic Ocean in the east to the Pacific Ocean in the west, and northward into the Arctic Ocean...

 television and film actress and radio

Radio

Radio is the transmission of signals through free space by modulation of electromagnetic waves with frequencies below those of visible light. Electromagnetic radiation travels by means of oscillating electromagnetic fields that pass through the air and the vacuum of space...

 announcer.

Life and career

MacDonald was born in Antigonish, Nova Scotia

Antigonish, Nova Scotia

Antigonish is a Canadian town in Antigonish County, Nova Scotia. The town is home to St. Francis Xavier University and the oldest continuous highland games in North America.-History:...

. She graduated from Dr. John Hugh Gillis Regional High School

Dr. John Hugh Gillis Regional High School

Dr. John Hugh Gillis Regional High School is a secondary school located in Antigonish, Nova Scotia, Canada. It is attended by approximately 850 students in grades 9 to 12. The school falls under the jurisdiction of the Strait Regional School Board. Dr...

 in Antigonish and later attended Montreal

Montreal

Montreal is a city in Canada. It is the largest city in the province of Quebec, the second-largest city in Canada and the seventh largest in North America...

's McGill University

McGill University

Mohammed Fathy is a public research university located in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. The university bears the name of James McGill, a prominent Montreal merchant from Glasgow, Scotland, whose bequest formed the beginning of the university...

, earning a degree

Academic degree

An academic degree is a position and title within a college or university that is usually awarded in recognition of the recipient having either satisfactorily completed a prescribed course of study or having conducted a scholarly endeavour deemed worthy of his or her admission to the degree...

 in Russian

Russians

The Russian people are an East Slavic ethnic group native to Russia, speaking the Russian language and primarily living in Russia and neighboring countries....

 and Slavic

Slavic peoples

The Slavic people are an Indo-European panethnicity living in Eastern Europe, Southeast Europe, North Asia and Central Asia. The term Slavic represents a broad ethno-linguistic group of people, who speak languages belonging to the Slavic language family and share, to varying degrees, certain...

 Studies.

MacDonald has appeared in various Canadian TV series, including Trailer Park Boys

Trailer Park Boys

Trailer Park Boys is a Canadian comedy mockumentary television series created and directed by Mike Clattenburg that focuses on the misadventures of a group of trailer park residents, some of whom are ex-convicts, living in the fictional Sunnyvale Trailer Park in Dartmouth, Nova Scotia. The...

(as Officer Erica Miller), These Arms of Mine (as Claire Monroe), and This Hour Has 22 Minutes

This Hour Has 22 Minutes

This Hour Has 22 Minutes is a weekly Canadian television comedy that airs on CBC Television. Launched in 1993 during Canada's 35th general election, the show focuses on Canadian politics, combining news parody, sketch comedy and satirical editorials...

(as a substitute newsreader), among other roles. In 2003 she starred in the two part miniseries

Miniseries

A miniseries , in a serial storytelling medium, is a television show production which tells a story in a limited number of episodes. The exact number is open to interpretation; however, they are usually limited to fewer than a whole season. The term "miniseries" is generally a North American term...

 Shattered City: The Halifax Explosion

Shattered City: The Halifax Explosion

Shattered City: The Halifax Explosion is a two-part miniseries produced in 2003 by CBC Television. It presents a fictionalized version of the Halifax Explosion, a 1917 catastrophe that destroyed much of the city of Halifax. It was directed by Bruce Pittman and written by Keith Ross Leckie...

.

However, she is likely best known as the former national continuity announcer for CBC Radio One

CBC Radio One

CBC Radio One is the English language news and information radio network of the publicly-owned Canadian Broadcasting Corporation. It is commercial free and offers both local and national programming...

, a role she held from the start of Radio One's 2004 summer season. With MacDonald's identity kept secret, the voice was quickly dubbed Promo Girl. MacDonald was ultimately outed by The Globe and Mail

The Globe and Mail

The Globe and Mail is a nationally distributed Canadian newspaper, based in Toronto and printed in six cities across the country. With a weekly readership of approximately 1 million, it is Canada's largest-circulation national newspaper and second-largest daily newspaper after the Toronto Star...

in early 2005. Her distinctive voice, and the quirky sense of humour

Humour

Humour or humor is the tendency of particular cognitive experiences to provoke laughter and provide amusement...

 in the promotional items she reads, made her a polarizing figure among long time Radio One listeners, particularly in the context of several other changes to the network's programming intended to attract a younger audience. The promo spots were taken over in May 2007 by Steve Fletcher.

In the summer of 2005, Radio One ran a series of weekly "comedy-mysteries" starring MacDonald—along with other Radio One personalities—titled Promo Girl in The Mystery of... Short segments designed to highlight various CBC Radio programmes and the upcoming fall season were repeated a number of times each day, with prizes going to listeners who correctly solved the various clues or mysteries. The series was not completed due to a lockout

Lockout (industry)

A lockout is a work stoppage in which an employer prevents employees from working. This is different from a strike, in which employees refuse to work.- Causes :...

 of CBC employees that began in the late summer.

Shauna also played Tara in Saw VI

Saw VI

Saw VI is a 2009 horror film directed by Kevin Greutert from a screenplay written by Patrick Melton and Marcus Dunstan. It is the sixth installment of the seven–part Saw film series and stars Tobin Bell, Costas Mandylor, Betsy Russell, Mark Rolston, Peter Outerbridge, and Shawnee Smith...

, and reprised the role in Saw 3D.

Filmography

Film
Year	Film	Role	Notes
1997	Someone to Love	Ex Girlfriend
1998	Apocalypse	Kerry	Direct-to-video Direct-to-video Direct-to-video is a term used to describe a film that has been released to the public on home video formats without being released in film theaters or broadcast on television...
	Jack & Jill	Jill
2002	Time of the Wolf	Anna MacKenzie
	Undercover Brother Undercover Brother Undercover Brother is a 2002 American comedy film starring Eddie Griffin and directed by Malcolm D. Lee. The screenplay is by Michael McCullers and co-executive producer John Ridley, who created the original internet animation characters. It spoofs blaxploitation films of the 1970s as well as a...	Wendy Marshall (TV Anchor)
2003	Spinning Boris Spinning Boris Spinning Boris is a 2003 comedy movie starring Jeff Goldblum, Anthony LaPaglia and Liev Schreiber. It was directed by Roger Spottiswoode. In the film, a Russian political elite hires American consultants to help with Boris Yeltsin's reelection campaign when his approval rating is down to single...	Lisa
2004	Saint Ralph Saint Ralph Saint Ralph is a 2004 Canadian drama film written and directed by Michael McGowan. Its central character is a teenaged boy who trains for the 1954 Boston Marathon in the hope a victory will be the miracle his mother needs to awaken from a coma....	Emma Walker
	The Porcelain Pussy	Velma
2005	Love Is Work	Celia
	Undo	Young Marvin
2007	The Mad	Monica Tepper
	Breakfast with Scot Breakfast with Scot Breakfast with Scot is a 2007 Canadian comedy film. It is adapted from the novel by Tufts University professor Michael Downing.The screenplay was adapted by Sean Reycraft from the book by Michael Downing, and the film was directed by Laurie Lynd...	Joan
2008	Production Office Production office A film Production Office is the administrative office responsible for managing a film production. The office is responsible to the Film Producer and includes the Production Manager, Assistant Director and one or more Production Assistants...	Jane
	Loving Loretta	Lily
	Toronto Stories Toronto Stories Toronto Stories is a film in four segments bound together by a young boy, lost in an unknown city. After the prologue, the four segments are directed by different people: "Shoelaces" by Aaron Woodley, "The Brazilian" by Sook-Yin Lee, "Windows" by David "Sudz" Sutherland, and "Lost Boys" by David...	Lowry
2009	Ninety-one	Simone
	At Home by Myself with You	Erin
	Saw VI Saw VI Saw VI is a 2009 horror film directed by Kevin Greutert from a screenplay written by Patrick Melton and Marcus Dunstan. It is the sixth installment of the seven–part Saw film series and stars Tobin Bell, Costas Mandylor, Betsy Russell, Mark Rolston, Peter Outerbridge, and Shawnee Smith...	Tara
	Doppelganger	Lenny 'The Weasel'
	Love Letter from an Open Grave	Mona	short film
2010	Saw 3D	Tara
Television
Year	Title	Role	Notes
1998	Earth: Final Conflict Earth: Final Conflict Earth: Final Conflict is a Canadian science fiction television series based on story ideas created by Gene Roddenberry, and produced under the guidance of his widow, Majel Barrett-Roddenberry. It was not produced, filmed or broadcast until after his death...	Katya Petrenko	Episode: "If You Could Read My Mind"
1999	Mythic Warriors: Guardians of the Legend	Laxhesis	Episode: "Damon and Pythias"
1999–2001	These Arms of Mine	Claire Monroe	12 episodes
2003–2004	Trailer Park Boys Trailer Park Boys Trailer Park Boys is a Canadian comedy mockumentary television series created and directed by Mike Clattenburg that focuses on the misadventures of a group of trailer park residents, some of whom are ex-convicts, living in the fictional Sunnyvale Trailer Park in Dartmouth, Nova Scotia. The...	Officer Erica Miller	Episodes: "Where in the Fuck Is Randy's Barbeque?" "The Delusions of Officer Jim Lahey" "A Shit Leopard Can't Change Its Spots" "A Man's Gotta Eat"
2003–2005	The Blobheads	Kiki Barnes	24 episodes
2004	While I Was Gone While I Was Gone (film) While I Was Gone is a CBS TV movie about a veterinarian, unhappy in her life and in her marriage to Daniel , a local minister. Whilst treating a dog, she learns that the animal belongs to Eli Mayhew , a former college friend of hers, and Jo's past as a radical student during the 1960s comes back...	Detective Geary	TV film
	Kevin Hill Kevin Hill Kevin Hill is an American legal drama that aired on UPN during the 2004-2005 TV season.-Synopsis:The series stars Taye Diggs as the title character, a lawyer who has to balance his professional career and his love life with having custody of Sarah, his 10 month old cousin...	Dana Goyer	Episode: "Snack Daddy"
2005	Riding the Bus with My Sister Riding the Bus with My Sister Riding the Bus with My Sister is a memoir by Rachel Simon, published in 2002 by Houghton Mifflin about the time she spent with her sister Beth, who has a developmental disability, whose lifestyle revolves around riding buses in her home city.-Book:...	Nona	TV film
	Terry Terry (film) Terry is a biopic of Canadian amputee athlete Terry Fox, dramatizing his national Marathon of Hope run across Canada to raise money for cancer research. The film, produced by Shaftesbury Films, aired as a television movie on CTV in 2005...	Truck-Stop Waitress	TV film
	This Hour Has 22 Minutes This Hour Has 22 Minutes This Hour Has 22 Minutes is a weekly Canadian television comedy that airs on CBC Television. Launched in 1993 during Canada's 35th general election, the show focuses on Canadian politics, combining news parody, sketch comedy and satirical editorials...		Four episodes
2006	Runaway	Reporter	Episode: "There's No Place Like Home"
	ReGenesis ReGenesis ReGenesis is a Canadian television program produced by The Movie Network and Movie Central in conjunction with Shaftesbury Films. The series, which ran for four seasons, revolves around the scientists of NorBAC , a fictional organization with a lab based in Toronto...	Heather Michelle	Episode: "Dim & Dimmer"
	Puppets Who Kill Puppets Who Kill Puppets Who Kill is a Canadian television comedy programme co-produced by The Comedy Network. It premiered in Canada on the Comedy Network in 2002, and in Australia on The Comedy Channel in 2004....	Ophelia McCoy	Episode: "A Few Feuds"
	Angela's Eyes Angela's Eyes Angela's Eyes is an American drama that premiered on July 16, 2006 on Lifetime TV and ran for 13 episodes. The show aired Sundays at 10 pm. Lifetime announced that the show would not be picked up for a second season....	Erika Bell	Episode: "Eyes for Windows"
	Sons of Butcher Sons of Butcher (TV series) Sons of Butcher is a cartoon based on the band of the same name. The show airs every night at 3 a.m. et/pt on The Detour on Teletoon. It is animated using a variety of programs, put together using Adobe Flash.-Premise:...	Tammi/Vegan Activist	Episodes: "Handlin' the Bike" "Ridin' the Rocket"
2006–2007	Jeff Ltd. Jeff Ltd. Jeff Ltd. is a CTV television series. The half-hour long series stars Jeff Seymour of The Eleventh Hour, and also airs on The Comedy Network. The show follows Jeff Stevens, an advertising exec who thinks he can have any lady he wants. He spends a lot of time trying to get with the ladies, and less...	Dorota	Episodes: "Body by Jeff" "Some of My Best Friends Are Queer" "To Kill a Mocking Man" "The Auto-Fish 9000"
2007	The Best Years The Best Years (TV series) The Best Years is a Canadian teen drama series set in Boston, Massachusetts. The series was created by producer and writer of Degrassi: The Next Generation, Aaron Martin...	Mary Hawke	Episode: "Mommie Dearest"
2008	Life with Derek Life with Derek Life with Derek is a Canadian television sitcom that aired on Family and VRAK.TV in Canada and on Disney Channel in the United States. The series premiered on Family on September 18, 2005 and ran for four seasons ending on March 25, 2009. The series starred Michael Seater and Ashley Leggat as the...	Olga	Episode: "Driving Lessons"
	Paradise Falls Paradise Falls Paradise Falls is a weekly soap opera shown nationally on the Showcase channel in Canada, starting in 2001. It is set in a summer cottage community in Central Ontario....	Grace Coleman	Episode: "Revelations"
	Flashpoint Flashpoint (TV series) Flashpoint is a Canadian police drama television series that debuted on July 11, 2008, on CTV in Canada and ran on CBS in the United States for its first three and a half seasons. In 2011, Ion Television began airing new episodes of the series in the United States...	Ruth Skellar	Episode: "Who's George?"
	Testees Testees Testees is a Canadian television series, created by Kenny Hotz and written and produced by Kenny Hotz and Derek Harvie . Testees originally aired on Thursdays at 10:30 PM EST on FX and ran from October 9, 2008 to December 18, 2008. and debuted on October 14, 2008 on Showcase in Canada. The show is...	Amy	Episodes: "Gas Pills" "Über-Glued" "Project X"
	Majority Rules! Majority Rules! Majority Rules! is a Canadian tween comedy series which first aired on Teletoon in 2009. The series is also dubbed Votez Becky! for the French title. The production company Entertainment One began filming for the first season on January 12, 2009., Retrieved 2011-02-01...		Unknown episodes
2009	The Listener The Listener (TV series) The Listener is a Canadian science fiction drama set in Toronto about a young paramedic named Toby Logan with the ability to listen to people's minds. The series premiered on Fox International Channels beginning with the Arabic-speaking area of northern Africa and south-western Asia on March 1, 2009...	Margaret	Episode: "Lisa Says"
	Aaron Stone Aaron Stone Aaron Stone is a live-action, single-camera adventure series created by Bruce Kalish. Originally broadcast with the launch of Disney XD on February 13, 2009...	Amanda Landers	11 episodes
	Being Erica	Marjorie	Episode: "Papa Can You Hear Me?"
2010	Republic of Doyle Republic of Doyle Republic of Doyle is a Canadian comedy-drama television series, which debuted 6 January 2010 on CBC Television.The show stars Seán McGinley and Allan Hawco as Malachy and Jake Doyle, a father and son who partner as private investigators in St...	Charlotte	Episode: "The Return of the Grievous Angel"
	Turn the Beat Around	Cynthia	TV film
	Harriet the Spy: Blog Wars Harriet the Spy: Blog Wars Harriet the Spy: Blog Wars is a 2010 Canadian/American television film starring Jennifer Stone which premiered on March 26, 2010, on Disney Channel. It is the second film adaptation of the book, Harriet the Spy, by Louise Fitzhugh, after the 1996 Harriet the Spy film that starred Michelle...	Violetta Welsch	TV film premiered March 26, 2010 on Disney Channel Disney Channel Disney Channel is an American basic cable and satellite television network, owned by the Disney-ABC Television Group division of The Walt Disney Company. It is under the direction of Disney-ABC Television Group President Anne Sweeney. The channel's headquarters is located on West Alameda Ave. in...

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