Marnie McBride



Marnie McBride is the daughter of Ross McBride and his late wife and is the main protagonist of the BBC Scotland fantasy drama series Shoebox Zoo.

Following the death of her mother, Marnie along with her father move from their home in Denver in America to Edinburgh in Scotland where on her eleventh birthday she comes across the Shoebox Zoo a quartet of toy animals who were once humans and tries to look for the Book of Forbidden Knowledge in order to help them return to their human forms. She does find the book but learns that it is fake and discovers that the real book is in America but she has to destroy it when the show's villains Toledo and the Dawn Queen get it. In the final episode of the series, Marnie sadly bids farewell to the Shoebox Zoo and leaves them in a junkshop so someone else can look after them.

Her abilities include telepathy, telekinesis, teleportation, the ability to shoot lightning and even resurrection.

She is portrayed by Viviene Endicott-Douglas