Lorn Macdonald

{{Short description|Scottish actor and director}}

{{Use dmy dates|date=April 2022}}

{{BLP sources|date=September 2016}}

{{Infobox person

| name = Lorn Macdonald

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| birthname = Lorn Alexander Macdonald

| birth_date = {{birth date and age|10 September 1992|df=yes}}

| birth_place = Kirkcaldy, Scotland

| occupation = Actor

| alma_mater = Royal Conservatoire of Scotland

| years_active = 2015–present

| known_for = Beats

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Lorn Alexander Macdonald (born 10 September 1992) is a Scottish actor and director. Born in Kirkcaldy,{{cite web |title=Statutory registers - Births |url=https://www.scotlandspeople.gov.uk/record-results?search_type=People&surname=Macdonald&forename=Lorn&forename_so=exact&from_year=&to_year=&surname_so=exact&record_type=stat_births |website=Scotland's People |publisher=National Records of Scotland and the Court of the Lord Lyon }}{{Cite web|url=https://www.scotsman.com/arts-and-culture/film-and-tv/julie-walters-and-jessie-buckley-running-major-screen-honours-glaswegian-mother-and-daughter-roles-wild-rose-824015|title=Julie Walters and Jessie Buckley in running for major screen honours for Glaswegian mother and daughter roles in Wild Rose|website=www.scotsman.com}} he studied acting at the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland. He is mostly known for starring as Spanner in the 2019 film Beats and as Mark Renton in an acclaimed production of Trainspotting in 2016 at the Citizens Theatre in Glasgow.{{Cite news|url=https://www.theguardian.com/stage/2016/sep/19/trainspotting-review-renton-irvine-welsh-citizens-glasgow|title=Trainspotting review – Renton and co return to the stage with raw power|first=Mark|last=Fisher|newspaper=The Guardian |date=September 19, 2016|via=www.theguardian.com}}

He has also appeared at the Citizens Theatre as Orestes in Oresteia This Restless House and Edmund in Long Day's Journey Into Night in 2017, on television in Bridgerton, Neverland and World's End.{{Cite web|url=https://www.sundaypost.com/fp/i-had-a-speech-all-ready-about-what-a-huge-fan-i-was-but-i-managed-to-restrain-myself-although-i-think-he-might-have-thought-i-was-a-little-obsessed/|title=Deadwater Fell: Rising star of Scottish screen Lorn Macdonald on working with his acting inspiration David Tennant... and trying not to tell him|first=Murray|last=Scougall}}{{Cite news|url=https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-scotland-50286123|title=Wild Rose and Still Game among Bafta winners|work=BBC News |date=November 4, 2019}}