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George MacKay trivia: 20 facts about the young actor

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!

  1. George MacKay was born on March 13, 1992
  2. He is a British actor
  3. 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)
  4. At the Cannes Film Festival MacKay received a Trophée Chopard in 2017
  5. He was nominated for the BAFTA Rising Star Award in 2014
  6. MacKay was born in London
  7. He is the son of Kim Baker, a costume designer, and Paul MacKay, an Australian who works in lighting/stage management
  8. In 2002, MacKay was spotted while at The Harrodian School by an acting scout
  9. He asked him if he would like to audition for a role in P.J. Hogan’s 2003 film adaptation of Peter Pan
  10. He attended a workshop
  11. He won the role of one of the Lost Boys, Curly, in what was his big break
  12. 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
  13. 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
  14. He later applied unsuccessfully to both RADA and LAMDA
  15. McKay had some work in television
  16. Including roles in Rose and Maloney, Footprints in the Snow and The Brief
  17. The period from 2016 to 2018 was marked by a breakthrough in MacKay’s career
  18. Projects he was involved in during these years helped him draw attention of casting directors outside the United Kingdom
  19. In 2019, he got cast as Ned Kelly in True History of the Kelly Gang directed by Justin Kurzel
  20. And as a young World War I soldier in 1917 directed by Sam Mendes
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