Keenan Macwilliam
Keenan lived in Canada and is 14-years-old. Her career started at age six when she did her first commercial, but she dosen't know yet whether she wants to finish up as an actress - she's also interested in working for the invirorment. Keenan plays guitar and sings, speaks french, and looks after her pets. she is also busy with school and sports.
Her credits include the starring role in Must Be santa, (CBC/universal studios MOW), lead roles in Deep in my heart (CBS MOW), and Best Girl (dish productions), She appeard in The Bone Collector (universal studios) and has worked with Ann Bancroft, Gloria Rueben and Denzil Washington.
"I love acting but i don't know yet whether i want to finish up as an actress," Keenan says. "I really like nature and animals and i'm in love with the ocean so i could finish up working for the environment."
the 14-year-old has a pretty busy schedule. she plays guitar and sings, is bilingual (english and french), is a humane sciety volunteer and looks after her labrador dog, Savannah, Plus her two pet mice. and loves computers and science. She also plays soccer and track.
Keenan is delighted to be filming in Australia. "it's a huge thrill. just watching the horse whisperers and wranglers is great and i know i'm going to learn a lot."
"i think Carole is somewhat conservative in some ways, Although when there are no adults around she can get pretty crazy with Stevie. she is inlove with horses and gets quite emotional about things. bits of her remind me of myself, and she isn't to interested in boys, im not either. the boys in my class are annoying but okay as friends."
when you are eight and Denzil Washinington is nice to you on set and lets you talk to his wife on the cellphone, you don't forget it. nor do you forget that his co-star Angelina jolie ignored you, Keenan has worked with some Big names in the world of show business, including Ann Bancroft and Gloria Reuben, she loves the industry but is well aware of its vagaries. "you can make a whole bunch of movies in a short while but then suddenly there is nothing for a year or two, so i think its really inportant to keep up with school and be serious about education," she says wisely
Keenan was six when living in Nashville, when she asked to do a clotheing commercial, she found standing around during a modeling shoot boring untill she realised you got money for this. and her practical nature took over, more modleing led to acting and her credits includ the staring role in Must Be Santa, Deep In My Heart, Best Girl, she appeared in Bone Collector, recintly did a TV movie Get A Clue, and before returning to Australia for the Saddle Club she was the host/presenter for a pilot TV show Pepular Machanics For Kids,
Since the First series, Public recognition of the Stars has grown to sometimes-embarrassing proportions. "I was in the mall one day and a young girl started screaming out to her friends that I was in The Saddle Club and she wanted an autograph. that was when i realised that people now know me from television. i also couldn't play in school softball tournaments because everyone was sort of following me around. the recognition is fun at times. but i don't take it too seriously," Keenan tells us.
the 13-year old has a busy schedule. English, drama, Visual arts and science are her strong subjects. she plays gutar and sings, reads a lot, is bi-lingual (English and French), looks after her two labrador dogs Savannah and toby and, of course horse-riding adn is hopeing to get her own horse when she returns to Canada. Keenan received her first diary when she was six and still keeps a journal. "At first i just used it for stickers and stuff, then i started writing in it and I now find it good to write about what i'm thinking and the things that i am doing," she says
Keenan was born in Toronto, Lived in Africa for four years, moved to tennessee and is now living in Canada, with her parents and brother Liam she has traveled a lot and has incredible selfpossession adn intuition fir her age, setting her own goals and keeping them. like most teenagers her career choices are a bit hazy but she cites Dermatology. Film production and Architecture as being high on the list.