George MacKay
George MacKay was born in Hammersmith, London, England, United Kingdom on March 13th, 1992 and is the Movie Actor. At the age of 32, George MacKay biography, profession, age, height, weight, eye color, hair color, build, measurements, education, career, dating/affair, family, news updates, movies, and networth are available.
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George MacKay (born 13 March 1992) is a British actor.
He has appeared in the films The Boys Are Back (2009), How I Live Now (2013), Sunshine on Leith (2013), Captain Fantastic (2016), Ophelia (2018), and 1917 (2019).
MacKay received a Trophée Chopard in 2017 and was nominated for the BAFTA Rising Star Award in 2014.
Early life and education
MacKay was born in Hammersmith, London, to Kim Baker, a British costume designer from London, and Paul MacKay, an Australian with experience in lighting and stage management. He and his younger sister grew up in Barnes. He is of Irish descent on his mother's side, and his maternal grandmother is from Cork.
MacKay attended The Harrodian School, a London independent school. When he was 17, he had unsuccessfully applied for admission to the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art and the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art.
Career
MacKay was discovered at school by an acting scout who had invited him to audition for a role in P. J. Hogan's 2003 film version of Peter Pan. In what was his first professional acting job, he attended a workshop and gained the role of one of the Lost Boys, Curly.
In 2005, he achieved the role of Riccio in Cornelia Funke's best-selling children's book at the age of 13. He was also cast in Johnny and the Bomb, a BBC three-part television drama based on Terry Pratchett's book of the same name. MacKay has also worked in television, including roles in Rose and Maloney, Footprints in the Snow, and The Brief. MacKay played Aron, the youngest of the four Bielski brothers, in the 2008 film Defiance. In 2009, he portrayed Harry in Clive Owen's The Boys Are Back. In the 1970s Swansea, MacKay co-starred in the Marc Evans-directed musical film Hunky Dory, starring Minnie Driver, Aneurin Barnard, and Kimberley Nixon.
In Private Peaceful's 2012 film The Best of Men, he played the principal character, Private Tommo Peaceful, and appeared as a wounded soldier.
In 2013, MacKay portrayed Eddie in How I Live Now opposite Saoirse Ronan and directed by Kevin Macdonald, and appeared as Davy in the musical film Sunshine on the Sunshine on the Sunshine Coast, which features songs by The Proclaimers. In the film Pride (based on a true tale) starring Bill Nighy, MacKay played Joe, a 20-year-old struggling to emerge in a homophobic Britain in 1984. In Eugene O'Neill's coming-of-age play Ah, Wilderness, Mackay played Richard Miller in 2015. Natalie Abrahami of Young Vic was the producer.
In July 2015, MacKay performed Lewis Aldridge in Sadie Jones' two-part television adaptation of his debut book The Outcast, which was broadcast on television. In February 2016, he played Bill Turcotte in Stephen King's sci-fi/suspense thriller 11.22.63.
MacKay appeared in Harold Pinter's play The Caretaker directed by Matthew Warchus from 29 March to May 26, 2016 opposite Timothy Spall and Daniel Mays. MacKay portrayed Bodevan, Ben Cash's oldest son, in the 2016 film Captain Fantastic (Viggo Mortensen).
He appeared in Marrowbone, a psychological horror film directed and written by Sergio G. Sánchez, and also starring Anya Taylor-Joy, Charlie Heaton, and Mia Goth. Prince Hamlet was depicted in Ophelia, a 2018 film retelling Shakespeare's story from the viewpoint of the young female character Ophelia. Daisy Ridley, Naomi Watts, Clive Owen, and Tom Felton appeared in the film premiere at the 2018 Sundance Film Festival, and the cast included Daisy Ridley, Naomi Watts, Clive Owen, and Tom Felton.
MacKay's film Where Hands Touch portrayed Lutz, a member of Nazi Germany who falls in love with a biracial child portrayed by Amandla Stenberg.
In a 2019 film True History of the Kelly Gang starring Justin Kurzel, MacKay interpreted outlaw Ned Kelly. The film premiered at the 2019 Toronto International Film Festival based on Peter Carey's award-winning book of the same name. MacKay was in charge of Lance corporal William Schofield, a young British World War I soldier in 1917, directed by Sam Mendes in that same year. 1917 was nominated for Best Picture in the 92nd Academy Awards, as well as nominations in nine other categories and three technical awards. Lily-Rose Depp stars in Nathalie Bianchery's film Wolf, for which principal photography in Ireland began in August 2020. In September 2021, the film premiered at the Toronto International Film Festival as the entry for Ireland, and on December 3, 2021, a theatrical preview was released.
MacKay appeared in Christian Schwochow's film Munich – The Edge of War for Netflix in 2022.
Mackay was reportedly under consideration, as well as several other males, to replace Daniel Craig in the role of James Bond in September 2021. He appeared alongside Tilda Swinton and Stephen Graham in a Golden Age musical film The End in October 2021, directed by Joshua Oppenheimer. Mackay will appear alongside Nathan Stewart-Jarrett in the revenge thriller Femme in May 2022.