J. C. MacKenzie
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J.C. MacKenzie (born ?) hails from Ottawa Canada where he spent the first 21 years of his life. He did not see his first play until twenty one years of age and was immediately smitten, enrolling in the theater department at Concordia University and then subsequently the prestigious London Academy Of Music And Dramatic Art in London, England, where he was in a class with such luminaries as James Bundy, now Artistic Director of the Yale Repertory Theater, and Marko Maglich, who directs the immigration law practice at White & Case, the pre-eminent global law firm.
Hired by A list Directors such as Mike Nichols, Martin Scorsese (twice) and Spike Lee (three times) and acting opposite Leonardo DiCaprio, Cate Blanchett, Matt Damon, Denzel Washington and Anthony Lapalia, he has established himself as one of Canada's leading exports in American films and television in the last fifteen years.
Mr. MacKenzie started his career in Canada working at many of the major theatres across Canada including The Shaw festival, Canadian Stage, Manitoba Theatre Centre, Royal Alex, Theatre Plus and Toronto Free theatre. In his third year in the business he was flown down to New York and was hand picked by Neil Simon to star in the Broadway national production of Bilox Blues which ran for 16 months and toured to all major cities across the United States.
He was a member of the prestigious Circle Repertory company in New York working with fellow Circle Rep members William Hurt and Jeff Daniels as well as Pulitzer prize winning writer Landford Wilson.
Mr. MacKenzie Starred as "Arnold Spivak" in the award winning Steven Bochco Series "Murder One" which ran for two seasons on ABC from '95-'97. Three years later he was hired to star opposite Jessica Alba in James Cameron's Dark Angel which ran on FOX for two years from 2000-2002 and won the People's Choice Award in 2001.
He has just completed his second film for directing legend Martin Scorsese. The film is "The Departed"; it is scheduled for release in December of 2006. Mr. MacKenzie played Cate Blanchett's ex-husband "Ludlow Ogden Smith" in Scorsese's "The Aviator" which won the Golden Globe for best picture and five Academy awards in 2004.
Mr. MacKenzie stars in the up-and-coming "The Return" starring Sarah Michelle Gellar, produced by Focus Features and scheduled for release in September of 2006. Mr. MacKenzie also stars in the Lifetime movie "Gospel Of Deceit" which will air in April around Easter.
He is married to award winning screenwriter Erin Cressida Wilson who wrote "Secretary" starring Maggie Gyllenhall and James Spader and the up-and-coming "Fur" starring Nicole Kidman and Robert Downey Jr. They have a two year old son and live in New York, Los Angeles and Providence, RI, where Ms. Wilson also teaches at Brown University.
