Student & graduate profiles

Mali O’Donnell

BA in Acting Degree (H Level)

Height 5′ 5″
Hair Blonde
Eyes Green / blue
Nationality Welsh
Native accent Soft Cardiff

Year of graduation 2020

Special skills

Stage Combat: BASSC (armed - distinction, unarmed - pass)

Awards: Laurence Olivier Award, James Westaway Award (with RWCMD)

Good ear for accents: General American, RP, Swedish, Dublin, Yorkshire, Tennessee

Singing: soprano

Dance: period, waltz

Music: guitar (basic)

Languages: Welsh (fluent)

Other: netball (school team), hockey (school team), ice skating (basic), drawing/painting (art GCSE and A-level)

Previous experience

Theatre: Balthazar, Romeo and Juliet, dir. Bruce Guthrie, (National Youth Theatre of Wales and Frantic Assembly); First Lawyer, Caucasian Chalk Circle, dir. Bruce Guthrie (National Youth Theatre of Wales and Frantic Assembly); John, Hood, dir. Phillip Mackenzie (Sherman Cymru Youth Theatre); Kontakt, dir. Phillip Mackenzie (Sherman Cymru Youth Theatre).

Member of the Young Actors Studio with the Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama.