Justin McDonald

Justin McDonald is a British actor who works in film, television and theater. Born in Gateshead in the north east of England, he won a scholarship to London's Italia Conti Academy of Theatre Arts and earned an acting degree there. He left his studies early to play Ben McCallister in the ITV Granada drama Distant Shores, then took parts in Holby City, The Bill, Torchwood, Afterlife, Casualty, Emmerdale, Wolfblood and Inspector George Gently. His first major film cast him as the young William Heelis in Miss Potter (2006), alongside Renée Zellweger and Ewan McGregor, followed by the British biopic When Did You Last See Your Father? (2007), in which he played Steve. He made his stage debut in Backbeat in 2010, voiced Frank Simmons in the video game Cursed Mountain, and in 2023 received a Royal Television Society award for the film Fist.