High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Gerda Stevenson is a Scottish actress, director and writer, described by The Scotsman in 1999 as "Scotland`s finest actress". She has played a vast range of parts in the theatre, including both Desdemona and Lady MacBeth, and has appeared in many television dramas. She was Murren`s mother in the Mel Gibson film Braveheart, and her voice is familiar to listeners of British radio, as a reader of short stories and adaptations. In particular, she has performed several poems and songs by Robert Burns for the BBC.