Jennifer MacDonald

Jennifer MacDonald was raised all over the US and Canada and has traveled all over the world At the tender age of sixteen after graduating high school she enlisted in the US Army where she was trained as an Arabic Linguist She attended survival and jump schools and was sent to work all over the Middle East as a cryptologic voice interceptor She has also worked for various government organizations as a translator She speaks standard Arabic Egyptian Spanish and some French Making documentary films while in the Army encouraged MacDonald to get into filmmaking after her departure from the service While working in film production in San Francisco she got the acting bug MacDonald got her start in San Francisco as part of a twelve person theater ensemble called Lightfoot a multicultural multiethnic group of actors dedicated to performing cutting edge material Since arriving in Los Angeles three years ago MacDonald has appeared as a guest star on several TV shows including The Adventures of Brisco County Junior Dream On Red Shoe Diaries and most recently Lands End with Fred Dryer She has a knack for attracting interesting offbeat material like the Showtime original movie Dead Weekend MacDonald stars opposite Steven Baldwin as a homicidal multilingual Alien from the planet Claire In the psychological thriller Shades of Black she plays a naive young probike racer stalked by a schizophrenic performance artist MacDonald also stars as a fighter pilot opposite Mark Hamill in Wing Commander III the most popular CDRom in history MacDonald has studied with Jeff Corey Brian Reese and with teachers from ACT San Francisco and Seattle Rep