Her parents were penpals, her mother is from Borongan, Samar and her father is from Queensland, and is of Scottish-Irish descent.

[1] McBride was part of ABS-CBN's Star Circle Batch 8[2] and appeared in Richard Loves Lucy, Kaybol: Ang Bagong TV and ASAP.

[3] Her breakthrough performance in Philippine cinema came in 2000 when she was cast in Laurice Guillen's award-winning and critically acclaimed film Tanging Yaman[1][3] which won her a New Movie Actress of the Year award in the PMPC Star Awards in 2001.

McBride was one of the hosts of ABS-CBN's Talk TV, which replaced Today with Kris Aquino in 2001.

[7] McBride is close friends with her Talk TV co-hosts Julius Babao, Christine Bersola-Babao and Ryan Agoncillo.