Shauna MacDonald

Shauna MacDonald is a Canadian actress and radio announcer who also works as a director, producer, writer, and voice actor. She became known as CBC Radio One's national continuity announcer. Born in Antigonish, Nova Scotia, she began that announcing job with Radio One's 2004 summer season; her identity was kept secret and her voice was nicknamed Promo Girl, and The Globe and Mail exposed her identity in 2005. Her television work includes appearances on Canadian series such as Trailer Park Boys and This Hour Has 22 Minutes, and she starred in the 2003 miniseries Shattered City: The Halifax Explosion. She played Tara in Saw VI and returned as the character in Saw 3D. Her performance as Lily in the 2008 short Loving Loretta brought a 2009 ACTRA Award nomination. In 2013 she co-wrote, co-directed, and starred in Tru Love, which took the Best Feature Film Audience Award at Toronto's Inside / Out Film Festival in 2014.