James Mackay (actor)

James Mackay (born 20 July 1984) is an Australian-born theatre, film and television actor.

James Mackay
Born	James Mackay 20 July 1984
Occupation	Actor
Years active	2009 – present

Education and training

Mackay attended Sydney Grammar School in Sydney, Australia, where he first starting acting in school plays.^[1]

Mackay studied at the University of Sydney, graduating with a Bachelor of Arts in History and English Literature, before training as an actor at the Western Australian Academy of Performing Arts in Perth.^[2]

Career

Acting – stage

Mackay was an artistic associate of Sydney-based indie theatre company Cry Havoc.^[3] He worked as performer and producer on two shows with the company, Shakespeare’s “Julius Caesar” in 2009 (playing Marc Antony),^[4] and Chekhov’s “Three Sisters” in 2010 (playing Andrey), for which he also collaborated on an original score.^[5] In 2010 the Sydney Morning Herald Metro columnist Lenny Ann Low profiled Mackay as one of the next 10 big names in stage acting.^[1]

In 2012 he made his debut with the Sydney Theatre Company under Cate Blanchett and Andrew Upton's artistic direction, playing Danceny in Sam Strong's production of Les Liaisons Dangereuses, with Hugo Weaving and Pamela Rabe as Valmont and Merteuil.^[6]

Most recently he appeared as Irwin in the Alan Bennett play The History Boys at the Sydney Opera House Playhouse^[7] in February 2013, alongside John Wood, Heather Mitchell and Paul Goddard.

Acting – film and television

Mackay appeared as the Librarian in the 2011 Guillermo del Toro-produced Miramax feature, Don't Be Afraid of the Dark, which was filmed in Melbourne in 2009, starring Katie Holmes and Guy Pearce.^[8]

Mackay also worked on the movie Singularity, directed by Palme d'Or winner and Oscar nominee Roland Joffé (The Mission, The Killing Fields). He plays Charles Stewart, the younger brother of Josh Hartnett's character James Stewart; a young Scottish redcoat serving with the British Army in Bombay, India, circa 1778.^[9]

Mackay appeared as Rudy Khan in Dan Krige's 2012 horror-thriller Redd Inc^[10] (released as Inhuman Resources in the US^[11]). He also played Irish backpacker Joel Thomson in Matchbox Pictures’ series The Straits, a crime drama filmed in Cairns and the Torres Straits.^[12] Mackay also appeared in the 2012 comedy Micro Nation on Channel 10's digital offshoot Eleven.^[13]

Awards

In June 2013 Mackay was the recipient of the fifth annual Australians in Film Heath Ledger Scholarship.^[14]

Theatre

Filmography

References

External links

• James Mackay at the Internet Movie Database