George MacKay is a British actor. He is best known for his starring role in the Sam Mendes’ film 1917!
Let’s find out some trivia and facts about the actor and his life!
- George MacKay was born on March 13, 1992
- He is a British actor
- He has appeared in the films The Boys Are Back (2009), Private Peaceful (2012), How I Live Now (2013), Sunshine on Leith (2013), For Those in Peril (2013), Captain Fantastic (2016), Ophelia (2018) and 1917 (2019)
- At the Cannes Film Festival MacKay received a Trophée Chopard in 2017
- He was nominated for the BAFTA Rising Star Award in 2014
- MacKay was born in London
- He is the son of Kim Baker, a costume designer, and Paul MacKay, an Australian who works in lighting/stage management
- In 2002, MacKay was spotted while at The Harrodian School by an acting scout
- He 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
- He won the role 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
- McKay had some work in television
- Including roles in Rose and Maloney, Footprints in the Snow and The Brief
- The period from 2016 to 2018 was marked by a breakthrough in MacKay’s career
- Projects he was involved in during these years helped him draw attention of casting directors outside the United Kingdom
- In 2019, he got cast as Ned Kelly in True History of the Kelly Gang directed by Justin Kurzel
- And as a young World War I soldier in 1917 directed by Sam Mendes