Acting

Dolina MacLennan

Born 1938-01-01 · Lewis, Sussex, England, UK

Acting credits

The Queen poster
6.9

The Queen is an intimate behind the scenes glimpse at the interaction between HM Elizabeth II and Prime Minister Tony Blair during their struggle, following the death of Diana, to reach a compromise between what was a private tragedy for the Royal family and the public's demand for an overt display of mourning.

The Queen

2006

The Legend of Barney Thomson poster
6.1

Barney Thomson, awkward, diffident, Glasgow barber, lives a life of desperate mediocrity and his uninteresting life is about to go from 0 to 60 in five seconds, as he enters the grotesque and comically absurd world of the serial killer.

The Legend of Barney Thomson

2015

No artwork available
NR

Excluded from a Highland battle re-enactment, a middle-aged Warrior Queen must rediscover her courage and defend her family’s honour.

Slingshot

2018

Duck Daze poster
NR

Johnina seeks revenge on her childhood abuser and the community that enabled him, with the help of a duck.

Duck Daze

2019

Vision poster
8.3

Set in 1847 in the Highlands of Scotland. In a remote village the people depend on their faith for survival during the potato famine. One man has different ideas.

Vision

1993

Interrogation of a Highland Lass poster
8.0

Docu-drama about the taking of the Stone of Scone from Westminster Abbey on Christmas morning of 1950 by a band of Scottish nationalist. The Stone of Scone is a holy relic (supposed to have been Jacob's Pillow when he dreamt of the Ladder to Heaven) on which the old kings of Scotland were crowned. It was stolen by Edward Longshanks - of Braveheart fame - in 1296 and had remained at the Abbey since.

Interrogation of a Highland Lass

2000

The Cheviot, the Stag and the Black, Black Oil poster
8.0

In their songs, comedy and exuberant music, a travelling theatre company give a fiercely polemic account of Scottish history, from the aftermath of Culloden to the oil boom. Their production before a live audience is intercut with filmed reconstructions of the Highland Clearances and the Victorian obsession with hunting stags.

The Cheviot, the Stag and the Black, Black Oil

1974

Crowdie and Cream poster
NR

An adaptation of the true life story from childhood of the author, Findlay J McDonald, who was born and brought up on the Isle of Harris. Set in the 1930s until he left the island after the Second World War to further his education on the mainland. The highland wit shines through despite the hardships of life on a small croft, a few acres for crops, a cow and a shed to house the loom to weave the traditional Harris Tweed.

Crowdie and Cream

2002

Finky poster
NR

A young musician with a tragic past is crippled in a car accident and given a chance at redemption when he is recruited by a violent, avant-garde circus.

Finky

2019

No artwork available
7.0

The traditional songs and singers of Scotland.

Songs of Scotland

1966

Seachd: The Inaccessible Pinnacle poster
4.8

A young man cannot stop his boyhood quest for the truth - the truth behind the death of his parents and the truth behind his Grandfather's ancient, incredible, fearful stories. A quest that leads him to one of Scotland's most treacherous mountains, The Inaccessible Pinnacle.

Seachd: The Inaccessible Pinnacle

2007

Morticia poster
NR

An eleven-year-old girl, living in Edinburgh, Scotland, hates her Christian name, Kylie. She prefers to be called "Morticia" And she wants a real Dad she can identify with. She wants Dracula...and she wants to be a vampire.

Morticia

2009

No artwork available
NR

Comfort and discomfort: a couple having sex on a train.

Relax

1993

Behind the camera