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Austin MacDonald
Austin started acting when he was about nine in commercials and wasted no time making
the jump into the film & television. Austin now plays Auzzie in the new Family Channel
(www.family.ca) series "DEBRA!" Austin also has a recurring role as Andy Jacobs in
the TV series "Life with Boys" on YTV/Nick starring Madison Pettis. He also has a
principal role on the television series “Living in Your Car”, season 2 starts to
air on TMN/HBO October 24th. Austin just finished filming another episode of
"The Rick Mercer Report" and did a guest starring role in a new Teletoon/cartoon
Network show called "Mudpit" and TMN/HBO’s show "Single White Spenny". He has
also appeared in "Doddlebops", "The Ron James Show" and "Little Mosque on the
Prairie." Austin's feature credits include "Kit Kittredge: An American Girl",
"Jack Brooks: Monster Slayer" and the "Roxy Hunter" series of movies, Austin
has worked with Dennis Lee on a project called "Jesus Henry Christ" with
Michael Sheen and Toni Collette.
This summer Austin was a judge at the St Mary’s "So you think you have talent"
with Katie Clark owner of Operation underground from the show Disband and Celebrity
Tim Deegan. He presented at the YMA Awards (youth & media) Austin had a great time
at the launch of Disney’s XD channel here in Canada with cast members of "Wingin It",
"Zeke & Luther" "DEBRA!" "Majority Rules", "Life with Derek" just to name a few.
In late June Austin attended the MIFF film festival (www.miff.ca) and got the
opportunity to again present an award to a winner of one of the film categories.
Most recently Austin has done interviews for several magazines, "Muskoka Today"
and "Limelight Magazine". He has also a really great one about bullying coming
out in December in "Our Canada" magazine. In "Our Canada" he also gets a chance
to talk a bit about his work with Blessings in a Backpack. He is helping to get
awareness of the program out there and still collecting backpacks and helping to
get donations to pay for the food to fill the backpacks. Did you know that 40% of
food bank users are children and it takes only $100 to feed a kid for a year in
this program? Get more info at www.blessingsinabackpack.ca in Canada and
www.blessingsinabackpack.org in the US.
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