After three years of drama school, she headed to Manchester and the Royal Exchange Theater. There, among her other credits, she had leading roles in the plays "The Deep Man", "Measure For Measure" and "A Streetcar Named Desire", in which she played "Stella". At the same time, she was busily carving a niche for herself in numerous BBC television plays, including Cover Her Face (1985), Pride and Prejudice (1980), "Unity", Hideaway (1986), "Byron" and the ten-part The Citadel (1983). She was also a featured regular on the English comedy series Up Line (1987). In 1984, she made her feature film debut in Horton Foote's Nineteen Nineteen (1985).
凯文-马克德出生在苏格兰北方的一个城镇，在童年和青春期时表现出对表演的爱好。进入大学以后攻读工程学，但一直在选修表演课程，也在剧院里演出。后来终于决定全力学习表演，转到了一所艺术学校学习。 毕业之后马上在罗伯特-卡莱尔(Robert Carlyle)的剧院里拿到了歌剧《The Silver Darlings》的主演，然后又在基利士-麦根诺(Gillies MacKinnon)执导的《笑脸总动员》(Small Face)中饰演一个邪恶的格拉斯哥帮派老大。之后在丹尼-博伊尔(Danny Boyle)执导的电影《猜火车》(Trainspotting)中饰演一个疯狂崇拜Punk歌星Iggy Pop、有艾滋病的瘾君子，在这部片子获得了巨大的成功，并且凯文-马克德在其中的表演也得到了一致好评，虽然凯文出演的角色大部分都是一些反面的配角，但因为这部影片他开始受到了影迷们的关注。在盖尔斯-马克克诺(Gilles MacKinnon's )的电影《北非情人》(Hideous Kinky)中出演之后，马克出演了一个很有争议的角色，在罗斯-拓切(Rose Troche)的电影《在卧房和玄关》(Bedrooms and Hallways)中出演一个同性恋。
Kirsty Mitchell was born in Glasgow, Scotland. Along with her modeling career, Kirsty Mitchell trained at the prestigious Central School of Ballet in London and at the age of seventeen was crowned the coveted title of "Miss Scotland" before turning her focus on acting.
