Bertina macaulay biography template

Every now and again, an actress takes the spotlight on the local scene, and her stage presence is arresting, her delivery so powerful that everyone stops and takes notice.

That’s Bertina Macaulay, an actress currently wowing audiences as a no-nonsense pastor in Jamaica’s first gospel musical

Amen Corner and as the indomitable Mother Jonas in the movie

Glory to Gloriana.

The Sierra Leone-born actress, who has called Jamaica home since 1981, has had a lifelong affair with acting and is now at the height of her career with dreams of taking her craft to the next level.

“I’ve been acting all my life, but it was really during my first year in Jamaica that I realised that this is really important to me,” she told

all woman.

Macaulay put her dreams of becoming a doctor or a lawyer (like her father and stepmother) on hold and enrolled at the Edna Manley School of Drama and quickly landed her first stag