George MacKay (actor)

George MacKay
MacKay at the 2013 Toronto International Film Festival
Born	(1992-03-13) 13 March 1992 London, England, UK
Occupation	Actor
Years active	2003–present

George MacKay (born 13 March 1992) is an English actor.

Life and career

MacKay was born in London, the son of Kim Baker, a costume designer, and Paul MacKay, who was born in Australia and works in lighting/stage management.^[1][2] At the age of 5 he produced, directed and created his own production of the play Peter and the Wolf with his friends playing the characters, and himself in the lead role of the Wolf so that he could swing from trees.

In 2002, MacKay was spotted whilst at The Harrodian School by an acting scout, who asked him if he would like to audition for a role in P.J. Hogan's 2003 film adaptation of Peter Pan. He attended a workshop, and won the part of one of the Lost Boys, Curly, in what was his big break. In 2005, at the age of 13, he won the role of Riccio in The Thief Lord, the film adaptation of Cornelia Funke's best-selling children's novel. He was also cast in the lead role in Johnny and the Bomb, a BBC three-part television drama adapted from Terry Pratchett's novel of the same name. He later applied unsuccessfully to both RADA and LAMDA.^[3]

McKay had some work in television, including roles in Rose and Maloney, Footprints in the Snow and The Brief.

MacKay in 2009

In the 2008 film Defiance MacKay played Aron, the youngest of the four Bielski brothers, and in 2009 he played Harry in The Boys Are Back starring Clive Owen. He co-starred in the Marc Evans-directed musical film Hunky Dory opposite Minnie Driver, Aneurin Barnard and Kimberley Nixon, which is set in 1970s Swansea.

In 2012 he played the main character, Private Tommo Peaceful, in the film Private Peaceful.

In 2013 MacKay played Eddie in How I Live Now opposite Saoirse Ronan and directed by Kevin Macdonald, and starred as Davy in the musical film Sunshine on Leith, featuring songs by The Proclaimers, directed by Dexter Fletcher.

In 2014 MacKay played the role of Joe, a 20-year-old struggling to come out in a homophobic Britain in 1984 in the film Pride (a true story) also starring Bill Nighy. In the film Joe finds friends in the form of a group called LGSM (Lesbians and Gays Support the Miners) and a small Welsh mining community finds some unlikely friends.

From 14 April - 23 May 2015 Mackay took the lead part as Richard Miller in Eugene O'Neill's coming-of-age play, Ah, Wilderness! directed by Natalie Abrahami at The Young Vic.

In July 2015, MacKay played the title role of Lewis Aldridge in the BBC’s two-part television adaptation of Sadie Jones’ debut novel The Outcast.^[4]

Filmography

References

External links

• George MacKay at the Internet Movie Database