Helen Macdonald
Actor
Helen Macdonald (born 1970) is an English writer, naturalist, and an affiliated research scholar at the University of Cambridge Department of History and Philosophy of Science. They are best known as the author of H is for Hawk, which won the 2014 Samuel Johnson Prize and Costa Book Award; in 2016, it won the Prix du Meilleur Livre Étranger in France. Macdonald is the child of British photojournalist Alisdair Macdonald.
Macdonald is non-binary and uses she/they pronouns.
Known for
Acting3
- 2020The Hidden Wilds of the Motorway as Presenter
- 2019The River: A Year in the Life of the Tay as Herself - Presenter
- 2017H Is for Hawk: A New Chapter as Herself - Presenter
Behind the camera2
- 2025H Is for Hawk Story
- 2017H Is for Hawk: A New Chapter Author