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Life and TimesHost
Ann-Marie MacDonald

Acclaimed author, playwright and actor Ann-Marie MacDonald, is the host of CBC's award-winning biography series, Life and Times. Ann-Marie's debut novel, Fall On Your Knees attracted a huge international readership and won critical acclaim.

Her second novel, The Way the Crow Flies, is an international best-seller. This follows her earlier success as a playwright and actor.

Her works for the theatre include the play Goodnight Desdemona (Good Morning Juliet), which has enjoyed more than fifty productions worldwide. MacDonald has also acted extensively on stage and screen where her work has garnered many awards including the Gemini. Her literary works have earned her the Commonwealth Prize, the Governor-General's Award, the Chalmers Award, the Canadian Authors Association Award and several Dora Mavor Moore Awards. Her play. "Belle Moral: A Natural History" opens this summer at the Shaw Festival.

"I'm a documentary junkie, and people's stories fascinate me, both because of what they choose to reveal and what they reveal quite unconsciously," says Ann-Marie of her role as host of Life and Times. "I like being surprised by a story that I thought I knew."

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