Danielle MacDonald Movies & Biography

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SACCHARINE (2026)

Starring Midori Francis, Danielle MacDonald, Madeleine Madden, Robert Taylor, Showko Showfukutei, Octavia Barron Martin, Annie Shapero, Louisa Mignone, Joseph Baldwin and Emily Milledge. Directed by Natalie Erika James.

When first-year medical student Hana becomes fixated on weight loss after reuniting with a dramatically transformed friend, she's drawn into a disturbing world of body image obsession. Encouraged by her crush, fitness influencer Alanya, to join an intense body transformation program.

Hana takes the diet pills her old friend gave her – and they really start to work straight away, but she's unable to afford the high cost, so she tests the contents of the pills - only to discover they contain human ashes. Desperate for more, she secretly harvests bones from a cadaver in her anatomy class. As Hana begins shedding weight, she is haunted by the ghost of the person she's consuming.

At first, a spectral curiosity, then a terrifying, growing presence with a ravenous hunger that begins to consume her life. With her grip on reality slipping and the ghost gaining power, Hana must find a way to break free before she loses control entirely.

REVIEWS Saccharine - A dish comprised of empty calories

IF I HAD LEGS I'D KICK YOU (2025)

Starring Rose Byrne, Mary Bronstein, A$ap Rocky, Christian Slater, Conan O'Brien, Manu Narayan, Danielle MacDonald, Ella Beatty, Eva Kornet and Helen Hong. Directed by Mary Bronstein.

With her life crashing down around her, Linda attempts to navigate her child’s mysterious illness, her absent husband, a missing person, and an increasingly hostile relationship with her therapist.

REVIEWS If I Had Legs I'd Kick You - Rose Byrne’s Oscar campaign begins now

FALLING FOR FIGARO (2022)

Starring Danielle MacDonald, Hugh Skinner, Joanna Lumley, Rebecca Benson, Gary Lewis, Shazad Latif, Ian Hanmore, Bhav Joshi, Saskia Ashdown and Sanjeev Kohli. Directed by Ben Lewin.

FRENCH EXIT (2021)

Starring Michelle Pfeiffer, Lucas Hedges, Tracy Letts, Valerie Mahaffey, Susan Coyne, Imogen Poots, Danielle MacDonald, Isaach De Bankolé, Daniel Ditomasso and Eddie Holland. Directed by Azazel Jacobs.

“My plan was to die before the money ran out,” says 60-year-old penniless Manhattan socialite Frances Price, but things didn’t go as planned. Her husband Franklin has been dead for 12 years and with his vast inheritance gone, she cashes in the last of her possessions and resolves to live out her twilight days anonymously in a borrowed apartment in Paris, accompanied by her directionless son Malcolm and a cat named Small Frank - who may or may not embody the spirit of Frances’s dead husband.

REVIEWS French Exit - A farcical and ridiculous delight

PATTI CAKE$ (2017)

Starring Danielle MacDonald, Bridget Everett, Siddharth Dhananjay, Mamoudou Athie, Cathy Moriarty, McCaul Lombardi, Patrick Brana, Dylan Blue, Faith Logan and Adam Scarimbolo. Directed by Geremy Jasper.

Fighting an unlikely quest for glory in her downtrodden hometown in Jersey where her life is falling apart, Patti tries to reach the big time in the hip hop scene with original and affecting music. Cheered on by her grandmother and only friends, Jheri and Basterd, Patti also shoulders her mother's heartaches and misfortunes.

REVIEWS Patti Cake$ - Off track