PROFILE: moving on up
when Danielle Macdonald graced a limited-edition cover of ELLE in 2018 as one of the year’s biggest rising stars, the Australian actor was experiencing a bona-fide Hollywood breakthrough. She’d blazed onto the scene as a Jersey girl with rapping aspirations in Patti Cake$, then firmly won everyone over in as Willowdean, the Dolly Partonobsessed teen trying to disrupt the beauty pageant industry, and had just finished filming Netflix’s psychological thriller with Sandra Bullock. went on to be a box office hit (and a viral one, thanks to the “Bird Box Challenge”), and Macdonald’s trajectory continued sharply upwards accordingly.
