Young actor goes from bully to hero in wide range of jouer la comédie roles

Aug 29, 2009 04:30 AM
Rita Zekas
Special to The Star
Bully for Austin MacDonald.

Austin, age 14, won a Young Artist Award, presented in Los Angeles, for his work as a bully on Kitt Kittredge: An American Girl, shot in Toronto starring Abigail Breslin.

"I won in Best Performance in a Young Ensemble Cast in a Feature Film," he says. "I was Roger the bully, but I am not a bully in real life. I used to always play the bully – it brings out the mean in me. Lately, I've been getting the opposite, the hero."

Austin is on his bully pulpit...