James Mackay (actor)

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James Mackay

Born	(1984-07-20) 20 July 1984
Occupation	Actor
Years active	2009–present

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

Early Life and Education

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

In 2013 Mackay played Irwin in the Alan Bennett play The History Boys at the Sydney Opera House,^[3] alongside John Wood, Heather Mitchell and Paul Goddard. In 2012 he performed with the Sydney Theatre Company as Danceny in Les Liaisons Dangereuses, with Hugo Weaving and Pamela Rabe.^[4]

Mackay was an artistic associate of independent theatre company Cry Havoc.^[5] He worked on two shows with the company, Shakespeare’s Julius Caesar in 2009 (playing Marc Antony),^[6] and Chekhov’s Three Sisters in 2010 (playing Andrey), for which he also collaborated on an original music score.^[7]

Acting – film and television

Mackay most recently appeared as William Beaumont in the 2015 Australian film The Dressmaker with Kate Winslet, Judy Davis, Liam Hemsworth and Hugo Weaving.^[8] He is also credited on imdb.com as having worked on the upcoming films Hacksaw Ridge, directed by Mel Gibson, and Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Men Tell No Tales, the next instalment of Jerry Bruckheimer's franchise, directed by Joachim Rønning and Espen Sandberg.^[9]

Other credits include Don't Be Afraid of the Dark, starring Katie Holmes and Guy Pearce,^[10] and The Lovers, directed by Palme d'Or winner and Oscar nominee Roland Joffé (The Mission, The Killing Fields). Mackay also played roles in the 2012 horror-thriller Redd Inc^[11] (released as Inhuman Resources in the US^[12]), Matchbox Pictures’ series The Straits, a crime drama filmed in Cairns and the Torres Straits,^[13] and the 2012 television comedy Micro Nation.^[14]

Awards

In June 2013 Mackay was the recipient of the fifth annual Australians in Film Heath Ledger Scholarship.^[15]

Theatre

Year	Play	Role	Company
2009	Julius Caesar	Marc Antony	Cry Havoc
2010	Three Sisters	Andrey	Cry Havoc
2012	Les Liaisons Dangereuses	Danceny	Sydney Theatre Company
2013	The History Boys	Irwin	Peach Theatre Company

Filmography

Year	Film	Production company, director	Role	Type
2009	Don't Be Afraid of the Dark	Miramax, dir. Troy Nixey	The Librarian	Feature
2010	Rescue: Special Ops	Southern Star/Ch. 9, dir. Garth Maxwell	Saxon Blake	TV episode
2010	Connection	AFTRS, dir. Jen Leacey	Dan	Short Film
2011	Hairpin	AFTRS, dir. Laura Scrivano	Simon	Short Film
2012	Redd Inc, aka "Inhuman Resources"	Green Light Productions, dir. Dan Krige	Rudy Khan	Feature
2012	The Straits	Matchbox Pictures/ABC, dir. Rowan Woods, Peter Andrikidis and Rachel Ward	Joel Thomson	TV Series
2012	Micro Nation	Ch. 10/Freehand Productions dir. Andrew Garrick	Lindsay MacFadden	TV Series
2012	Being Venice	Dragonet Films, dir. Miro Bilbrough	Fireman	Feature
2013	Singularity	Corsan Films, dir. Roland Joffé	Charles Stewart	Feature
2014	The Tomorrow People	WBTV/The CW	Julian Masters	TV Series
2015	The Dressmaker	Jocelyn Moorhouse	William Beaumont	Feature
2016	Hacksaw Ridge	Mel Gibson	Prosecutor	Feature
2017	Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Men Tell No Tales	Joachim Rønning and Espen Sandberg	Maddox	Feature

References

External links

James Mackay at the Internet Movie Database

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