MacDonald has appeared on television in American Movie Classics' Paramour, Sex and the City, Law & Order, and The Deception, a CBS movie of the week. He has also performed on the daytime dramas Loving and One Life to Live.
On stage, MacDonald starred in the Broadway production of Two Shakespearean Actors. He also appeared in the national tour of An Inspector Calls and was seen in numerous regional theater productions including The Green Heart and Night and Her Stars at the Manhattan Theater Club; I Hate Hamlet and A Christmas Carol at the Actors Theater of Louisville; The Importance of Being Earnest, Comedy of Errors, Henry IV Part I, and Arms and the Man at the New Jersey Shakespeare Festival; Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolfe? at the Cambridge Theater Company; Titus Andronicus and The Importance of Being Earnest at the Utah Shakespeare Festival; Love's Labour's Lost and Othello at the Colorado Shakespeare Festival; The Wizard of Quiz at the Philadelphia Festival Theater; Way of the World at New York Stage and Film; Graduation Exorcises and Batman at The Source Theater; and Marathon 33 at the Horizons Theater.
While attending The Juilliard School, Macdonald appeared on stage in Happy End, The Cherry Orchard, Press Cuttings, Overruled, and The Seagull.
Macdonald also attended The American University Academy for the Performing Arts, where he studied with Joshua Logan, and received a Bachelor of Arts degree in drama from The Colorado College.
Macdonald, who was born on June 1, 1961 in Washington, DC, currently resides with his wife, Nicolette, in Astoria, NY.
Law & Order: Special Victims Unit
Dr. Gerald Morgan
2007
Guiding Light
Edmund Winslow
July 8, 1999 to November 10, 2005; January 19 and January 20, 2006; October 26, 2007 to December 28, 2007; January 22, 2009 to Present
Paramour
Robert Brandt
1999
Another World
Jordan Stark/David Halliday
1998-1999
Sex and the City
1998
Loving
Father Matchett
1994
Law & Order
Mickey
November 12, 1991
The Deception
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