Kelly Macdonald Biography

Kelly Macdonald (born 23 February 1976) is a Scottish actress. Known for her film and television performances, she has received various accolades, including a BAFTA Award, a Primetime Emmy Award, and four Screen Actors Guild Awards. Macdonald made her film debut in Danny Boyle's Trainspotting (1996). She was nominated for the BAFTA Award for Best Actress in a Supporting Role for her role in the Coen brothers film No Country for Old Men (2007).

During her career, she has taken roles in  Elizabeth (1998), Gosford Park (2001), Intermission (2003), Nanny McPhee (2005),  Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows – Part 2 (2011), Anna Karenina(2012), T2 Trainspotting (2017), and Operation Mincemeat (2021). She voiced Princess Merida in the Disney Pixar animated Brave (2012).

On television, she won the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Miniseries or a Movie for her role in the BBC One film The Girl in the Cafe (2005). She was further Emmy-nominated for portraying Margaret Thompson in the period crime drama series Boardwalk Empire (2010–2014). She also acted in Black Mirror's Hated in the Nation (2016), the limited series Giri/Haji (2019), and Line of Duty(2021).

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Confrontation Over Money and Loss

Carla Jean Moss: I knew this wasn't done with.
Carla Jean: I ain't got the money. What little I had is long gone and there's bills a-plenty to pay yet. I buried my mother today. I ain't paid for that neither.
Chigurh: I wouldn't worry about it.
Carla Jean: I need to sit down. You got no cause to hurt me.
Chigurh: No, but I gave my word.
Carla Jean: You gave your word?
Chigurh: To your husband.
Carla Jean: That don't make sense. You gave your word to my husband to kill me?
Chigurh: Your husband had the opportunity to save you. Instead, he used you to try to save himself.
Carla Jean: Not like that. Not like you say. You don't have to do this.
Chigurh: People always say the same thing.
Carla Jean: What do they say?
Chigurh: They say, "You don't have to do this.
Carla Jean: You don't.
Chigurh: [sighs; tosses a coin] Okay. This is the best I can do. Call it.
Carla Jean: I knowed you was crazy when I saw you sittin there. I knowed exactly what was in store for me.
Chigurh: Call it.
Carla Jean: No, I ain't gonna call it.
Chigurh: Call it.
Carla Jean: The coin don't have no say. It's just you.
Chigurh: Well, I got here the same way the coin did.

A Conversation About Choices and Consequences

Carla Jean Moss: What're you goin to do?
Llewelyn Moss: I'm fixin to do somethin dumber'n hell but I'm goin anyways. If I don't come back, tell Mother I love her.
Carla Jean: Your mother's dead, Llewelyn.
Llewelyn: Well then, I'll tell her myself.

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