Shauna MacDonald
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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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